Monday, March 5, 2012

EDITORIALS

Auditorium

- How much would keeping it cost,

and where will that money come from?CHARLESTON Mayor Kemp Melton once suggested selling theMunicipal Auditorium to help the city fund its contribution to thecoming Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia.As the Daily Mail's Dan LeRoy reported this week, lots of peoplethink that's a bad idea.The 3,450-seat auditorium is very useful to the CharlestonCommunity Music Association, traveling shows, conventions and schooland civic groups. The 1,880-seat performance hall of the new centerwon't accommodate those needs in their current form.Well, OK. If the Municipal Auditorium is a resource, Charlestonneeds to …

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