Missing Medal of Honor portrait found in McDowell County
A Medal of Honor recipient’s portrait and citation are now out of a courthouse closet and back up on a courthouse wall. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph recently ran a letter to the editor from Ed ...
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In West Virginia’s Southern Coalfields, a Grassroots ‘Jubilee’
Davis and Ware want to use the church that once divided McDowell County into miners and management to reclaim what has been ...
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W.Va. residents are at a loss after newspaper that bound community together shuts down
In March, the McDowell ... West Virginia’s most diverse counties. It’s also the poorest, with some of the lowest graduation and life expectancy rates in the nation. Over the years, the county ...
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Reclaiming and Revitalizing Resources in West Virginia’s Southern Coalfields
The demand for clean water in McDowell County is but one element of a groundswell of community-based activism to reclaim and ...