By Liz Bowie, The Baltimore Sun
July 22, 2010
The best elementary schools in the state come in all sizes and areas, from a small school filled with low-income students in the far reaches of Western Maryland to a midsize one in a wealthy neighborhood of Anne Arundel County.
Of the 874 elementary schools in the state, Crellin Elementary, a schoolhouse nestled in a coal mining area that has amassed a collection of prizes for leadership, environmental teaching and character education, is the school with the highest pass rate on the Maryland School Assessment.
With an average 100 percent pass rate, the 100 students at Crellin edged out Anne Arundel County's Benfield Elementary, a school whose students live in neighborhoods along the banks of the Severn River.
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by Bill Archer, Bluefield Daily Telegraph
March 29, 2010
Ashland, WV--Spring is about to burst into full bloom, and the people of the small, Northfork Hollow community of Ashland have a lot to be excited about. The opening of a trailhead on the Hatfield-McCoy Trail a couple years ago, combined with the development of an ATV resort and the restoration of the old Ashland Company store injected new life into the community. Along with the economic growth, the Ashland community has successfully addressed a problem that has plagued residents of steep mountain valleys since coal operators started developing company towns to house workers near the mines — sanitary sewage treatment.
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Story by Hilary Magacs, hmagacs@wboy.com, WBOY Channel 12-Clarksburg, WV
February 24, 2010
Davis, WV -- The Canaan Valley Institute in Tucker County focuses on improving the environment by improving water quality. It has a unique and green way of treating its wastewater, by recycling it. When toilets at the institute are flushed, waste goes into a septic tank, where solids and wastewater are separated. After that, "The water travels through a series of equalization tanks. In those tanks, anaerobic microbes start to break down the wastewater," said Sarah Deacon, a research coordinator at CVI.
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Davis, WV--West Virginia Watershed Network recognized watershed groups from all across West Virginia for their efforts in protecting and restoring local watershed on November 13, 2009, at Blackwater Falls State Park during the 11th annual Watershed Celebration Day. Over 100 volunteers attended the event and were given awards for their work to create partnerships, implement projects, educate their communities, and monitor water quality to determine project success.
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A “Switching Station Database” of links to online water-monitoring gages in West Virginia has been developed by the West Virginia Water Gaging Council and can be accessed from their public web site at http://wvwgc.wvca.us. Available water-monitoring gages include precipitation, streamflow, stream stage, lake and reservoir stage, and ground-water level gages operated by Council members and others.
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