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STEUBENVILLE — The Jefferson County Port Authority’s executive director announced Wednesday that the U.S. Economic Development Agency has awarded the agency

STEUBENVILLE — The Jefferson County Port Authority’s board of directors were given an overview of three parcels of land in the Jefferson County Industrial P

Pikeville Medical Center held a ground-breaking ceremony on Dec. 2 to officially mark the start of an expansion project for the Leonard Lawson Cancer Center.

Coal jobs are expected to decline even further in the near future. Where does that leave communities that once relied on them?

That pluck has landed his Charlottesville company the opportunity to be the first to generate large-scale renewable power on the coalfields of Central Appalachia. If the bold venture announced this week comes to fruition, roughly 550 acres of deforested minelands sprinkled across an expansive Nature Conservancy preserve will generate up to 75 megawatts of solar energy within two to three years. “If it were easy, everybody would be doing it,” Van Clief said about plunging into untested terri...

Kentucky seeks proposals for 2021 abandoned mine land grants April 22, 2021 GMT LOUISVILLE, Ky (AP) — Kentucky’s Division of Abandoned Mine Lands is seeking proposals that will attract new industry and jobs for the 2021 Abandoned Mine Land Pilot Program. A total of $10 million is available to fund economic and community development projects in the state’s Appalachian counties. The program has supported 54 projects in Kentucky since 2016. Successful proposals have funded community water s...

Grant will support economic development, renewable energy, mine reclamation in Southwest Virginia Published Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, 6:02 pm Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP | Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Front Page » Government/Politics » Politics2 » Grant will support economic development, renewable energy, mine reclamation in Southwest Virginia (© niroworld – stock.adob...

Rural Massachusetts towns paid thousands less per acre than wealthier communities for state-owned land, report reveals Updated Dec 10, 2020; Savoy, a town of under 700 in Berkshire County, has 11,924 acres of land it can’t put on the tax property rolls because it’s state-owned, including the Savoy Mountain State Forest. The town gets close to $80,000 a year for the state-owned land, less than it would if the land were on the property rolls. Yet Plymouth, a coastal town south of Boston, get...