Paranormal Trail Returns For Spooky Season
The West Virginia Paranormal Trail is back for another season, and there's even a new location this year.
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The Changing Appalachian Farmstand, This West Virginia Morning
Roadside farmstands with homemade jams and bread are a common sight in Appalachia. Because they’re unmanned, many of them work on the honor system: Take a carton of berries, leave some cash. But the humble farm stand is changing to keep up with an increasingly cash-free society. Folkways Reporter Wendy Welch recently visited a stand in Wythe County, Virginia and has this.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsAEP To Buy Longview Power Plant
American Electric Power (AEP) has agreed to buy one of the nation’s newest, but troubled, coal-fired electric plants. It also comes with permits to build a natural gas plant.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsSteps To Protect Our Kids From Harm, This West Virginia Morning
The criminal charges against teacher and now-former delegate Elliott Pritt shocked many. We speak with Moore Capito, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, whose office is prosecuting the case, about what specific steps parents can take to protect their children from predators who seem both successful and safe.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsNew Gas Power Plant Coming To Grant County
Dominion Energy has proposed building the Mt. Storm Combined Cycle Station in Grant County, according to a press release from Gov. Patrick Morrisey.
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Miners, Clean Power Advocates To Protest Proposed Gas-Fired Electric Plant
The United Mine Workers of America and groups interested in solar and wind energy are encouraging supporters to attend, and speak, at a hearing before the Public Service Commission of West Virginia (PSC) on July 15.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsPublic Comment Set For Fort Martin Gas-Fired Power Plant
The hearing relates to the proposed construction of a 1,200-megawatt gas plant next to the existing coal-fired Fort Martin Power Station, as well 70-megawatts of solar projects.
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