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Yahoo
26-04-2025
- Business
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WVU to host Agritourism Conference in Canaan Valley
DAVIS, (WBOY) — WVU will be hosting the 2025 West Virginia Agritourism Conference at Canaan Valley Resort State Park over the weekend, allowing people to learn about or take in the agriculture experience. Professor of Agribusiness, Economics, and Management at WVU Dr. Dee Singh Knight helped put on the event and described the conference as part of broader efforts to encourage agritourism by means of starting a training course on the topic as well as a bus tour to see different agritourism businesses. 2 West Virginia communities continue battle with Corridor H Dr. Singh Knight also explained that agritourism is a helpful revenue source to help keep farming businesses viable. 'It's a great way to grow your customer base, but also to grow your revenue, and your cash flow sources for our farmers,' Knight said. 'It's a way to keep our farmers in business as they're challenged with traditional agriculture. It's a way that they can earn that extra income that's going to make the difference between leaving the industry and staying within it.' Dr. Knight also said she hopes the conference continues on an annual or bi-annual basis. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
25-04-2025
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2 West Virginia communities continue battle with Corridor H
WARDENSVILLE, (WBOY) — While residents in Tucker County, West Virginia have fought to have the four-lane Corridor H highways bypass their towns and tourism hubs, a small town in Hardy County is worried that the new highway will turn it into a ghost town. On April 22, the West Virginia Division of Highways held a public hearing in Hardy County on the Wardensville to Virginia section of the project. Most of Corridor H, which will be 132 miles of highway connecting Interstate 79 in Weston, West Virginia to Interstate 81 in Strasburg, Virginia, is already complete, but the sections in Tucker County and Hardy County are still in the planning stages, largely due to pushback from the communities. About 80 people attended Tuesday's meeting, in-person and virtually, and most of them spoke against the current proposal for the 6.8-mile section of highway, according to a press release from the environmental group, Friends of Blackwater. Smoke from Virginia fire seen in West Virginia The proposed Corridor H route bypasses Wardensville, going south of the current Main Street. Residents are concerned that traffic going around the town instead of through it will turn the community they have worked hard to revitalize into a 'ghost town.' 'This road to nowhere is bypassing somewhere—the town of Wardensville,' said Kirsten Johnson, who works at Macks Bingo restaurant on Main Street. Other residents are concerned about the loss of land containing fishing streams, recreational trails and family farms that have been around for generations. Several environmental groups also spoke, emphasizing that the highway will cut into protected land in the George Washington National Forest and that construction could negatively impact wellhead protected areas. Those in favor of the four-lane voiced their support for creating a safer road than the current two-lane Route 55, which has some dangerous curves and steep grades. The timeline on the WVDOH's website estimates that construction will begin this summer. Public comments are still being accepted by the WVDOH online here until June 1. A full video of the April 22 meeting is available here. Additional details about the Corridor H Wardensville to Virginia project are available here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- General
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Gauley River named one of the country's most endangered rivers
(WBOY) — West Virginia's Gauley River was recently named the 10th most endangered river in the United States by American Rivers, a clean water advocacy group. American Rivers puts out yearly lists of the country's most threatened rivers, but this is the third time in a row that a West Virginia river has made it onto the list; the Blackwater River was included in 2024 due to the possible impact Corridor H construction could have on the area, and the Ohio River was included in 2023 due to pollution and discharges of toxic chemicals. This year, the Gauley River was included due to a South Fork Coal Company mine operation that American Rivers has said poses a significant threat to water quality in the area. 'Since 2019, the company has released heavy metals and sediment — exceeding legal limits by up to 900 percent — into the Cherry River on at least 80 documented occasions,' the report says. 'In addition, the company is trucking over 100,000 tons of coal annually from the more than 1,100-acre Rocky Run Surface Mine across the Monongahela National Forest each year — an action that plainly violates federal law.' The Rocky Run Surface Mine is located in the southern part of the Monongahela National Forest, which is technically outlawed by the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, and American Rivers has said the mine doesn't have the rights necessary to operate in the area. For the full report on all 10 rivers highlighted in 2025, you can visit the American Rivers website here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
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Tucker County newspaper runs spoof stories for April Fools
DAVIS, (WBOY) — 'State officials will be turning off the Blackwater River for cleaning during the month of April' is the lead on an April Fools story by local newspaper the Tucker County Observer. In the tradition of British newspapers, the Observer took a break from their mission of reporting the news and ran several spoof stories in its latest edition. In one, a state agency called the division of Conservation, Restoration, Aspiration, and Procrastination, or CRAP, is heading the effort to stop the flow of the blackwater and clean its rocks with shampoo and conditioner. Along with a Blackwater story, the Observer ran several other full of in-jokes for Tucker County locals, written by reporters 'Laird Fasoploy' and 'Friday LaPools'(anagrams for April Fools' Day). These West Virginia streams are being stocked for Gold Rush in April 2025 Another entitled 'Wriston necktie event canceled' says that an event to help former West Virginia Department of Transportation Secretary Jimmy Wriston learn how to properly use a necktie has been cancelled. Observer publisher Thomas Yocum told 12 News Wriston was well known in Tucker County both due to his involvement in the construction of Corridor H and his habit of not tying his necktie. 'Hopefully everybody gets a laugh out of it,' Yocum said. 'You know, sometimes we take things a little bit too seriously, including ourselves.' When asked if he was afraid of people not getting the satire, Yocum said, 'I've always been an enemy of the 'no-fun-police…if this does make the 'no-fun-police' unhappy, then I'm very, very glad.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
