June 2010
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Woodburn Closed, Nobody Shocked, School Board...
It was a controversial proposal from the start, especially considering what was being proposed. There was plenty of righteous opposition. The Monongalia County School Board didn’t care though; they voted unanimously to close Woodburn and Easton schools. It was a decision that they’d made months ago. It was a decision that reflected their contempt for the affected neighborhoods. It was...
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Open Letter to WVU President James Clements
Dear President Clements,
Nearly a month ago, you made a great decision in hiring Oliver Luck to be the next Athletic Director of West Virginia University. It’s time to make another great decision for the flagship university of the state and put an end to the Friends of Coal sponsorship of the annual Marshall-WVU game.
I will try to avoid getting into a political or environmental debate because...
Closing Woodburn
Here is a final letter written by Susan Eason, an activist attempting to protect Woodburn Elementary from closure
To the Mon County BOE:
Tomorrow you will vote to close Woodburn and Easton. Unless some strange miracle happens, I am expecting that.
Barbara, at a past meeting you told Chris (and the rest of us) not to come to the board with “daggers.” Think a minute, though, why it...
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Forty Four Jones Place Scuttled!
Sorry for the exclamation mark, but according to an email that just came in, Forty Four Jones Place, the horribly bloated development pushed aggressively by Chris Fletcher, the city’s manager, has been scuttled. The email is below, written by the developer Gregg Metheny (apologies for the incorrect spelling on earlier posts):
I respectively request removal of the 44 Jones Place PUD...
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Backed Up On University
Yesterday, driving across town, I came to the intersection of University Avenue and Stewart Street. I got inexplicably lucky to catch a light and proceeded up University toward Evansdale. I passed stopped traffic, backed up all the way to the peak of University Avenue. For some reason somebody decided that the perfect time for utilities work to benefit Mountaineer Place, a new huge apartment...
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Are You Kidding Us Chris Fletcher?
Several weeks ago, the Morgantown Planning Commission’s representative for the Wiles Hill area, Barbara Ferrell, mysteriously skipped a meeting directly pertaining to her district and then resigned the next day. (She’s inexplicably still listed on the MPC’s website). Because of the empty seat, the Wiles Hill Highland Park Neighborhood Association has rightly boycotted MPC...
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You're Amusing Frank Devano
Last night’s school board meeting was predictably fraught with anger and frustration as the county’s school board (motto: “We’ll let anybody serve provided they don’t care about neighborhoods or children!”) marched ever forward in its crusade to close one of the city’s last remaining neighborhood elementary schools. One of the more amusing things about...
