Morgantown housing bid aims for HUD review this week
Morgantown seeks to complete its formal application to the Department of Housing and Urban Development this week. The Morgantown Housing Authority plans 400 low rent units, 200 elderly and 200 non elderly, with turnkey construction options and federal funding tied to a local planning loan.
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MHA
Pittsburgh
Department of Housing and Urban Development
City Council
Morgantown
Morgantown Housing Authority
Raymond Haas
HUD
Dillards still haven’t solved home problem
On January 12 a fire destroyed the Osage home of Nathaniel and Betty Dillard and their six children, leaving them homeless. In the weeks after, housing options closed, with locals citing racism in Morgantown as a factor, while some would not be quoted.
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John Blosser
Dominion Post
Nathaniel
Betty Dillard
Dillards
Morgantown
Dillard
Mt Heights initiative praised for community effort
Rep. Harley Staggers extols Mountain Heights for winning first in the 1970 ComBet program while highlighting local reforms and housing struggles. The Dillards, aided by Legal Aid, faced loan denial and a hazardous, deteriorating home at 645 Pennsylvania Ave amid HUD scrutiny and slow progress toward purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harley O. Staggers
D-W.va
Mountain Heights Community Association
Summers School
House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
Douglas M. Hilling
Association
Community Bettermen
Washington
James R. McCartney
Morgantown Area
Decker's Creek Valley Days draws community cohesion
About 150 to 200 volunteers aided the Fourth Annual Decker's Creek Valley Days, hailed as a success by treasurer Glenna Williams. Four days of events drew 500 for Poor Man's Dinners, 350 for Queen Sarah II's crowning, and a wall to wall crowd at Friday and Saturday nights. Plans for next year include bigger facilities and a possible Richard area historical park to serve valley residents.
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Susan Harman
Dominion-Post
Glenna Williams
Decker’s Creek Valley Association
Sarah II
Donna Jean Hinebaugh
Richard
Rock Forge Presbyterian Chapel
Brookhaven
Williams
Rock Forge
Valley
Starcher Complaint On Board Meeting In Fairmont
The North Central West Virginia Legal Aid Society board meets in Fairmont to discuss a complaint against Morgantown office director Larry Starcher. William Delardas accuses Starcher of violating federal rules by campaigning while employed by the society. Delardas may not attend. CSC authority disputed. Starcher says the board acts only as a governance panel, not a hearing body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgantown
West Virginia Supreme Court
Congress
University City
North Central West Virginia Legal Aid Society
Fairmont
Larry Starcher
J. J. Straight
North Central West Virginia Community Action Association
Starcher
William Delardas
Ridgeley Road
Delardas
David G. Hanlon
Hanlon
Straight
Boar
CSC
Auction Highlights Bicentennial Stew of Stewartstown Benches
In Stewartstown the Forks of Cheat Church pew from the early 1800s sold for 24.50 dollars to Mrs. Bernard McGregor amid a weekend bicentennial celebration drawing about 80 bidders. Earlier Willard White paid 20 dollars for a carnival glass fluted vase, bidding low overall as pieces brought under a dollar or around 50 cents for jars and knickknacks.
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John H. Brewer Sr
Forks of Cheat
Stewartstown
Bernard McGregor
Brewer
Willard White
White
Carol Fuller
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Allen Austin
Henry A. Comley
William A. Shuman
Harold G. Wildman
Paul H. Trevillian
Agency
W. Va
Sunday Dominion Post
Need Council
A. Feminists On
New York
Women’s Liberation Groups
Little Miss Muffet
Grand Central Station
N.Y
Social Security Administration
Social Security Office
Anita Bryant
A. - Anita
Oklahoma
Department of Motor Vehicles
Washington Street
Charleston
Mt. Heights
First National Bank
Suncrest Bank
James A. Ashburn
M. George
Pennsylvania Ave
Legal Aid Society
Franklin Cleckley
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
James Carew
George
Paul Ray Martinelli
William Haymond
Pennsylvania Avenue
Handyman's
Decker’s Creek
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