Future Looks Bright for Morgantown's Mylan Park

MORGANTOWN - It has been a decade since a group of determined Monongalia County residents and a generous coal company, Anker Energy, decided to transform some reclaimed strip mine land north of town for ball fields.

That simple mission, to make life better in Monongalia County, blossomed into Mylan Park, a more than 300-acre showcase of what is good and wholesome about a medium-sized city and what is exciting about the possibilities when people think big.

"Mylan Park is unique," executive director Van Anderson said. "It started out with ball fields and then it became even ...