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Area businesswoman develops center for creative learning at Shenandoah wet prairie in Coolspring
Businesswoman Linda Case sought expert advice on proper care of a marsh she discovered on her farm near Charles Town.
Tamarack and the West Virginia Department of Agriculture will collaborate to showcase the state's gourmet food industry in a specialty shop and demonstrations created especially for the Huntington conference.
MU Back to School
Whether you are an incoming freshman or a veteran at Marshall, there are a few things you should know about the upcoming weeks. Check here for more.
Bride Guide 2012
Need advice on planning your upcoming nuptials? Check out the Bride Guide, which includes a rich list of possible wedding reception sites, sorted by seating limits.
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Be among the first to hear about breaking news in the Tri-State. You can also set up your own text alerts for stories you are interested in.
Health Challenge
The Huntington Health Revolution is a 90-Day Challenge that is a lifestyle change plan. Are you ready for the challenge?
Marshall Plane Crash
Check here to find original stories, photo galleries, victim information and coverage of the filming of the 2006 movie "We Are Marshall."
100 Years of History
A look back at 100 years of Tri-State history through The Herald-Dispatch. Ten of the biggest stories of the last 100 years in our area, as voted on by readers, plus hundreds of photos.
Purchase a photo reprint
Our professional photographers are always out and about in the Tri-State. If you know of an image you would like to purchase, click here to fill out the form.
Tri-State Visitors' Guide
Check out great shopping, dining, lodging and other entertainment opportunities in West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky.
Tri-State's Wanted
The Herald-Dispatch's “Tri-State’s Wanted” list has featured several fugitives since June 2006, many of whom have been captured.
Send us your youth sports photos
Send a photo of your favorite Little Leaguer or cheerleader for our youth sports photo galleries.
More Create West Virginia
Talking Trash: Toyota plant walks the walk
Zero waste. They said it couldn't be done, and some keep saying it, but they have to ignore the reality at any Toyota plant. Putnam County's Toyota engine transmission manufacturing plant, like all other North American Toyota facilities including headquarters, doesn't trash so much as a gum wrapper.
Here are some of the events happening in Huntington while the Create West Virginia conference is in town. For a full listing, go to www.herald-dispatch.com. All events free and open to the public except where noted.
Kinetic Star ready to catch opportunity
You won't hear Greg Henthorn's voice raised in the shouting match over global warming, and it's not because he doesn't have an opinion.
A flurry of media, including the "Today Show" on July 21, celebrated the advent of a new company on the American retail scene with an unprecedented business concept and an unexpected address.
At the 2008 Create West Virginia conference a speaker said, "Almost everyone wants schools to be better, but almost no one wants them to be different." But different they must be, and difference requires an "ecology of innovation."
Pursuit of excellence makes no one 'better' than anyone else
When we were kids, few putdowns could demoralize a peer quicker. "Test buster" was handy, and "teacher's pet," but the dreaded barb was "you think you're better than us."
W.Va., New York kids connect through Skype Block project
Kids in Rand, W.Va., relate to kids in Harlem, New York City, via Skype as part of The Block: An Urban to Rural Connection.
In a recent Wonderful West Virginia article, writer/artist Colleen Anderson declared, "There are places of power and magic on this Earth." She claims one is in Preston County's old-growth forest known as Cathedral State Park, east of the village of Aurora on the old Northwestern Turnpike now known as U.S. 50.
Groups from around West Virginia will head to Huntington on Sunday, Oct. 18, through Tuesday, Oct. 20, for the Create West Virginia conference.
LEED standards inspire community
The opening of a new school is always an exciting community event, but Marshall Countians celebrated their new Hilltop School in August with extra fanfare.
Create WV Conference highlights communities with persistence to thrive
Two years ago, Create WV introduced the concept of a "creative community," defined as a community that takes ownership over creating a new destiny by coming together to solve problems and identify opportunities in the 21st century global economy.
"Green" builder Glenn Carlson loves Fayette County's steep, forested ridges.
Artists working on a colony near Spencer
You may know blacksmith Jeff Fetty for his giant iron daffodils that bloom year-round in Charleston. Or maybe you've sat at a glass corporate boardroom table supported by an intricate Fetty hand-wrought base. His work goes around the world, keeping very good company.
Vintage buildings worth more than memories
More than 170 years ago, French archaeologist Adolphe Napoleon Didron said, "It is better to preserve than to repair, better to repair than to restore, better to restore than to reconstruct." The aphorism is as current as a classic building. West Virginia communities, take heed.
Create Huntington working to improve Huntington
Experts say museums, performing arts, higher education, health care, a waterfront, transportation access, architecturally significant homes, and buildings and parks are ideal assets for attracting creative people. Huntington has all this, yet, until recently, few would have called it a choice place for researchers, scientists, software developers, artists and musicians. Why?
It's June 20, 2009. Teams from Generation WV and Create WV are at C.J. Maggie's in Buckhannon, where they have traveled from around the state to formally kick off their new partnership. It's West Virginia Day. What better way to celebrate than by tending to the future of the state?
Keeping it Rural
If you're from Arnoldsburg, Clendenin, Elizabeth, or Glenville, the city of Spencer has a deal for you. Hear about sales, shopping at the antique mall, and the Black Walnut Festival on a radio station out of Parkersburg. Clip an ad from the Traders Guide, or go online, to cityofspencer.com where you can sign up for the e-newsletter. Become a friend on Facebook.
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Home power stations are on rise in W.Va.
Some notable changes have occurred in West Virginia since the late 1990s, when Carol Warren and her husband Todd Garland began thinking about an alternate power source for their home in a rugged, sparsely populated part of the state.
Green Pros Organize
The organizer of BuildGreenWV, the state's chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), is determined that West Virginia will get its share of emerging opportunities in the design-construction sector of the new economy.
