Keep 'Em Flying aims to save Charleston airlift wing
Retired National Guard members, families and locals form Keep 'Em Flying in Charleston to stop moving eight C-130 Hercules cargo planes from Yeager Airport. They collected over 5700 signatures and opened a campaign office in the FAA Building. Col. Bill Peters Jr says Yeager could expand to 16 planes with ramp work, and cites a favorable long term lease.
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Charleston
National Guard
West Virginia Air National Guard
130Th Airlift Wing
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Federal Aviation Administration
Yeager
Bill Peters
Peters
Department of Defense
Pope Air Ice Base
Fayetteville
N.C
West Virginia tech group to open office in Spain
The West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation will open its first international office this summer in northern Spain. Two Basque region non profits will establish offices at Fairmont’s Alan B. Mollohan Innovation Center. The move aims to diversify economic development and create new market entrances with similar IT strengths.
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Spain
Fairmont
West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation
Basque
Alan B. Mollohan
West Virginia
Alan Mollohan
D-W.va
European Software Institute
Europe
Technology Association
GAIA
Consortium
James Estep
Black heritage tourism grows in Virginia and beyond
In Farmville and the region, historic Moton High drew civil rights visitors as schools were integrated after the 1951 Moton walkout linked to Brown v. Board. Heritage tourism expands with museums and sites marking segregation era history, now a major growth segment in the Black travel market.
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Farmville
Rich Harrill
University of South Carolina
Institute For Tourism Research
U.S. Census Bureau
Civil Rights Heritage Trail Sites in the South
A tour of African American heritage sites across the South includes the Slave Mart Museum in Charleston Tubman Museum in Macon Rust College in Holly Springs Maggie L Walker National Historic Site in Richmond and Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site. The piece discusses travel trends and the push to preserve black landmarks and tell fuller histories.
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Slave Mart
Charleston
S.C
Tubman African American Museum
Macon
Rust College
Holly Springs
Miss
Maggie L. Walker
Richmond
Tuskegee Airmen
Tuskegee
Ala
Varetreat
Charlestoncob
Tubmanmuseum
Rust
Nps.gov
Tuskegee Airmen National Historic
Tuai
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Andrews
Jason Gordon
Williamsburg
Robert Watson Jr
Booker T. Washington National Monument
Franklin County
Virginia Tourism Corporation
Anedra Bourne
Six injured in fiery I-66 tanker crash near Vienna
A tanker truck crash on Interstate 66 west of Washington caused a fiery blaze and six injuries Saturday night. Five victims were hospitalized at Inova Fairfax and one at Fair Oaks. The truck cab and a minivan burned. the driver escaped unharmed. The incident backed up traffic for miles and closed the highway for hours.
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Vienna
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue
Dan Schmidt
Inova Fairfax
Fair Oaks
Schmidt
Hull-less barley test runs across Virginia fields
Virginia Tech has developed a hull-free barley variety now being tested in fields statewide. The hull-less barley helps weight gain in livestock and blends with corn for ethanol production, while also improving beer flavor. Once common as hog and poultry feed, barley farming declined with corporate farming and now hull-less trials expand acreage beyond 40 thousand acres outside experimental plots.
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Isle OF Wight
Virginia Tech
Byrd says he expects heavy attacks if he runs again
Sen. Robert Byrd warned at a West Virginia Democratic event that a possible 2006 re election bid would draw an avalanche of campaign money to defeat him. The 87 year old warned that opponents would distort his votes and seek to intimidate him while pledging to prevail with supporters.
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Charleston
Robert C. Byrd
D-Wva
West Virginia
Democratic Executive Committee
Washington
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