by Chris Stadelman, The Parsons Advocate
April 19, 2008-More than a decade after it formed, Canaan Valley Institute broke ground on its new headquarters building, a 25,000-square-foot, $8 million facility on W.Va. 93 just outside Davis. Nearly 200 people attended Saturday’s ceremony, including Rep. Alan Mollohan, officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the chairman of the National Youth Science Foundation board, which also will build a complex on the 3,200-acre site. Read More
Crellin, Maryland-Once again, Crellin Elementary School's Corps of Discovery is being recognized nationally, as the school has received the National Civic Star Award.The Garrett County school system will be presented $5,000 to go toward the school's envionmental program and $5,000 for a scholarship program. Read More
by Hannah Northey of the Daily News Record
September 18, 2007, Harrisonburg, VA-Blacks Run may soon get its groove back. City officials say they're preparing to restore a section of the polluted stream where it runs through Purcell Park on Monument Avenue in January. And it includes giving the stream back its natural bends that have been straightened by development and mowing over the years, said Ed Watson, a hydrologist at the Canaan Valley Institute, who's working on the project. Read More
(from The Progress Fund news release)
May 23, 2007-Entrepreneurs with expanding tourism-orented businesses can now tap into a $1 million low-interest loan pool managed by The Progress Fund and provided by the US Department of Agriculuture and The West Virginia Infrastructure & Jobs Development Council. With this pool of capital, businesses can borrow as much as $150,000 to cover up to half of a project's cost. Read More
May 10-11, 2007-Twin Falls Resort State Park in Wyoming County, WV, was the site of a conference coordinated by Canaan Valley Institute which brought together watershed groups, state agencies, and private engineering firms to discuss wastewater treatment alternatives in West Virginia's Southern Coalfields. Read More
April 20, 2007-EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson announced that the Crellin Elementary School was one of 10 recipients to win the President’s Environmental Youth Award at a ceremony today in Washington, DC. The Crellin Environmental Education Lab, an outdoor classroom, was created in conjunction with the restoration of Snowy Creek, which runs adjacent to the Crellin school. Restoration efforts have been used as an educational tool to engage students in meaningful, hands-on learning opportunities that benefit the entire community and enhance the students’ knowledge of Maryland's watersheds. Read More
April 4, 2007-For those who labored long and difficult hours deep underground, the community company store was as much of a social gathering place for miners and their families as it was an actual store. During the glory days of King Coal, company stores were located across the coalfields of southern West Virginia, and McDowell County in particular. The multi-storied structures would stock just about everything miners and their families needed. Just like today's massive supercenters, the local compnay store at the time carried food, tools, clothing, toys, fresh fruit, and just about anything else a family needed. Read More
March 22, 2007-The Mid-Atlantic Highlands region of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia is an engine for the whole country—providing clean water, energy, wildlife, wood products, hand crafted masterpieces, and cherished open space. This engine is now the focus of a cooperative, multi-state effort to ensure that the region will supply its residents and the world with quality resources and opportunities for generations to come. Read More
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