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When the COVID pandemic hit, two friends in southeast Ohio stayed in touch through poetry. Now, they've published a book of their correspondences.
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The Sustainable Ohio Public Energy Council received a $12.5 million federal grant to fill in gaps in electric vehicle infrastructure. It plans to use the money to build 50 charging stations across southern Ohio.
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Pollution, caused by abandoned mines, is hurting Ohio’s small streams. A local nonprofit is combining science and art to solve the problem.
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The coal industry has been declining for decades, leaving a disrupted, and often dangerous, landscape in its wake. Now, a federal program seeks to revitalize abandoned mine land.
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The county adopted the idea of friendship benches from Zimbabwe. It aims to address social isolation by bringing trained health workers into underserved parts of the community.
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Funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission will help Ohio communities across the state build employment programs for those recovering from addiction.
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Moonville is an abandoned railroad town in Hocking Hills. Nobody lives there anymore, but its stories live on.
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Rural welder David Griesmeyer created the Ohio Arts Corridor, a quirky public art trail, to bring people into Appalachia in hopes they’ll stay awhile.
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Appalachians are disconnected from the workforce. Some think a federal employment program could helpMore than 150,000 working-age Central Appalachian residents aren’t in the labor force. The Ohio River Valley Institute says that makes it ripe for a federally subsidized workforce program.
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Ohio farmers are processing their unsellable chestnuts into pancake mix, flour and beer. They hope the new market will attract more Ohioans to grow climate-smart trees.