It is springtime in the mountains again and local gardens are starting to come in. WMMT reports on the annual Growing Appalachia Conference which was held in March at Jenny Wiley State Park. In addition to talk of grassfed beef, herb gathering, and vegetable production, there was plenty of discussion of a variety of ways […]
Could Worker Cooperatives be a solution for getting new businesses going in our region? In this WMMT Mountain Talk we sat down with Joe Rinehart, Rural Technical Assistance Coordinator for the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, and Whitesburg, KY residents Jonathan Hootman and Sara Pennington to talk about the growth of Worker Cooperatives around the country and ways […]
It’s been four months now since Gov. Steve Beshear and Rep. Hal Rogers kicked off the SOAR – Shaping Our Appalachian Region – initiative with a December summit in Pikeville that attracted over 1,500 people. WMMT reports on the first meeting of the ten SOAR working groups, at the East Kentucky Leadership Conference on April […]
April 5 marked the 4th anniversary of the deadly explosion at then-Massey Coal’s Upper Big Branch Mine in Raleigh County, WV. As a way to remember, the WMMT family recorded these short portraits of the 29 men who so needlessly lost their lives. Their stories come from the Report to the Governor by the Governor’s […]
