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FOR THE DAILY MAIL
MORGANTOWN - On a chilly fall weekend, after a year of exile, Gale Catlett's Mountaineers were back home where they belong. More than 12 months after the West Virginia University Coliseum was closed while asbestos was removed from the ceiling, a brightly redesigned new gym floor is alive once again with the basketball team's sneaker squeaks and hollers as the Mountaineers go through preseason practice.
But the ballplayers aren't the only ones glad to be back home.
As a chilly wind whipped through the bare trees outside, more than a dozen walkers celebrated their return to the Coliseum by trotting briskly around the concourse inside the warm building.
The Coliseum has long been a popular spot for walkers, especially when the weather turns cold.
And it's even better if, like Morgantown resident Harbhajan Seehra confesses, you're "scared of dogs."
Seehra and her husband, WVU physics professor Mohindar Seehra, have been coming for regular walks for more than a decade. Saturday was their first time back since the Coliseum reopened to walkers earlier this month.
"We thought we would stop and see if it was open. Otherwise, we would go back to the mall," says Mohindar Seehra, making quick strides in his walking shoes.
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