MORGANTOWN — About two months after ballooning costs and public pushback prompted an 11th-hour decision to bail on a $15 million overhaul of the Morgantown Ice Arena, […]
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Morgantown Blades capture PAHL championship after season of adversity
MORGANTOWN — If the movie “The Mighty Ducks” had been set in West Virginia, you wouldn’t need long to find the ideal candidates to play the roles […]
Morgantown Ice Arena project bids rejected; Mylan Park takes the ice
MORGANTOWN — BOPARC’s Morgantown Ice Arena project as currently presented is off. Mylan Park is getting into the ice business. Those were the two major takeaways from […]
Lost season would have been ‘catastrophic’ for Morgantown hockey
MORGANTOWN — The Morgantown Blades 12-and-under hockey team took the ice at the Morgantown Ice Arena Saturday morning with a chance to move into first place in […]
MUB ready to begin filling 370 million-gallon reservoir
MORGANTOWN — A $50 million project originally envisioned more than 60 years ago has entered its final phase. Morgantown Utility Board Spokesman Chris Dale said the 70-foot-tall, […]
Morgantown hockey community voices displeasure with ice arena plan
MORGANTOWN — What happens when 100 hockey players, parents, coaches and supporters turn up to a Morgantown City Council meeting in a room with a 40-person capacity? […]
Gritstone could become public recreation amenity
At the beginning of November, the pandemic claimed — though belatedly — another local business. Gritstone Climbing + Fitness was foreclosed upon, and at the end of […]
Selin: Refreshing to have the means and will to make recreation improvements
MORGANTOWN — In June 2018, BOPARC leadership came before Morgantown City Council to deliver some hard truths about the city’s park system. Executive Director Melissa Wiles and […]
Morgantown, MUB ‘close’ on reservoir recreation
MORGANTOWN — It appears as if an agreement between the city of Morgantown and the Morgantown Utility Board outlining recreation at MUB’s Flegal Dam and Reservoir site […]
Haddox making music — one song, one gig at a time
Chris Haddox, the WVU professor, community activist and singer-songwriter, found out a few weeks back that he was the cause of an international incident. Oh, it was […]
