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City of Morgantown Shuts off Facebook Comments: BOPARC says no discussion allowed in Krepps Park scandal, in violation of 1st Amendment

BOPARC has disabled the ability of all Morgantown residents to comment on a post about the Krepps Park athletic court project on the official city social media page. WVMAD was tipped off by an apparent Morgantown government worker. This is a violation of the 1st Amendment, according to the U.S. Supreme Court.  We reported on the troubled Krepps Park project just yesterday. To recap: this summer, Morgantown…

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BOPARC's Krepps Park Project in Chaos, Literally Underwater

Disaster at Krepps: New $200K Athletic Courts completely unusable In April, the Dominion Post reported that BOPARC would do a "total replacement" of the Krepps Park tennis, pickleball and basketball courts after "years of patching and resurfacing." By July, the new surface was laid. However, residents soon noticed the courts were uneven, forming giant puddles dubbed the “Krepps Park Pond” on social media. Despite the…

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Bartlett House Board Member used Homeless Shelter as Dirt-Cheap ‘Storage Unit’

This is Part 2 of the homelessness series. Read Part 1 here for the Bartlett House backstory. Bartlett House board member Christopher Meyers, from Pittsburgh, utilized Bartlett House’s homeless shelter on University Avenue to store his personal business’s arcade equipment, as reported by another board member to WVMAD. Who is Chris Meyers? According to a Dominion Post article from 2022, Meyers has “built a vending route of…

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Did Secret Conflicts of Interest Bankrupt Bartlett House?

Bartlett House is an icon in the Morgantown community, serving as the go-to homeless shelter for nearly 40 years and assisting tens of thousands of mountaineers in need. Established in 1985, the Bartlett sisters envisioned a philanthropic purpose for their home on Grant Avenue. Ethel Bartlett and Pauline Bartlett, both native mountaineers, lived in Morgantown well into their 90s, passing away just a year apart. (Read…

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