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Virginia Energy leveraging federal funding to diversify Southwest region’s economic profile
This is Part 2 of a three-part series on efforts to develop on abandoned mine lands in Southwest Virginia. Read Part 1 here. Part 3 will be published in the coming days. NORTON – Many miners in Virginia’s coalfield region may have avoided going underground and remained topside of the earth to procure coal through […] The post Virginia Energy leveraging federal funding to diversify Southwest region’s economic profile appeared first on Virginia Mercury.
Prominent Letcher County businessman dies
LETCHER COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - The founder of double kwik and Childers Oil Company has died. Don Childers died June 29th at his home in Whitesburg. He was 92. The Pikeville native started Childers Oil Company in 1966. During the next 50 years, the family business expanded to include 40-plus...
Virginia Tech awards $217K grant to Town of Pound for labor history monument
The Town of Pound has received a $217,000 grant from Virginia Tech’s Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia program to construct a monument paying tribute to the region’s labor history. The proposed project, titled “Labor in Motion: Honoring the Voices that Shaped the Coalfields,” seeks to uplift and engage with...
Stories From Appalachia: ‘I Was Born in Mexico, but I’m From McDowell. We Grew Up Here, and We’ll Stay Here.’
An oral history project five years in the making, Beginning Again: Stories of Movement and Migration in Appalachia brings together narratives of refugees, migrants and generations-long residents that explore complex journeys of resettlement. In their stories, Appalachia is not simply a monolithic region of white poverty and strife. It is a diverse place where belonging and connection are created despite displacement, resource extraction and inequality.
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