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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…

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…

City of Morgantown welcome sign in front of WVU Coliseum, April 2024 On December 21, 2023, up to 18 City of Morgantown employees received an email from the payroll system. Nothing out of the norm. City employees receive this email every 2 weeks. It's payday! Excited to see their latest paycheck just before Christmas, these employees opened the email to find a Termination Notice. Termination…

This is Part 2 of our Dorsey's Knob Lodge investigation. WVMAD requested financial records for the past 2 years of taxpayer expenses at Dorsey's Knob Lodge, a city-owned house in the middle of Dorsey's Knob Park. From a $174,556 uncovered deck to over $5,000 in wallpaper, BOPARC went on a wild spending spree from 2022-2023. Some locals have questioned BOPARC's leadership abilities and asked, was…

BOPARC's first monthly public meeting of 2024 was held at 3:00 PM on January 10th at Marilla Park Center in Sabraton. For one of the first times in city history, this public meeting was video recorded (by WVMAD) so the public could see what BOPARC is up to. We anticipated an hour or two of heated discussion, given BOPARC has a 13.9 million dollar budget.