Robert Burrough News Today

Construction on the Mountain Valley Pipeline has resumed in Virginia following the dismissal of several legal challenges that had been holding it up for years.

Donation of 28 acres accepted to add to trail ELIZABETHTON — By a 21-2 vote, the Carter County Commission voted Thursday to accept a donation of 28 acres of land between Valley Forge and Hampton that could extend the Tweetsie Trail by 4.5 miles and provide connections with the Hampton Springs Watershed Mountain Bicycle Trail and Green Bridge Park in Hampton. The property being donated is the route by which the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad used to operate a narrow gauge ...

WEYMOUTH — The natural gas compressor station on the banks of the Fore River is expected to go back online soon, about four months after two emergency shutdowns at the plant. Max Bergeron, a spokesman for the Canadian company that built the compressor station, said in an email Friday, Jan. 22 that the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has approved the station going into full service. Bergeron said the station would “methodically be placed in service” with ov...