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'Something special': New mushroom species discovered in Kanawha County (opens the original)
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In mid-June, when a planned trip to a state park to look for mushrooms fell through, Drew Palmer decided to take a walk in the woods near his Cross Lanes home to see what late-spring fungi could be found. For Palmer, who leads mushroom walks across the state, serves on the West Virginia Mushroom Clubâs board of directors and science committee, and administers Facebook pages for several mushroom-enthusiast â or mycophile â organizations, the missed outing turned out to be fortuitous. âI s
$20 million Rend Trail restoration gets underway in Gorge (opens the original)
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MINDEN, W.Va. â A ceremonial groundbreaking event for an $11.8 million improvement project targeting a 3.4-mile rail trail in New River Gorge National Park and Preserve will take place Tuesday at the Minden trailhead of the Rend Trail. Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., is among speakers scheduled to take part in the 10 a.m. ceremony. Portions of the Rend Trail have been closed for several years due to concerns over the stability of several of the five historic rail trestles â some more than 100 yea
$11.8M Rend Trail project ready to go in New River Gorge National Park and Preserve (opens the original)
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Editor's note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported the cost of the Rend Trail restoration project. MINDEN â A ceremonial groundbreaking event for a $11.8 million improvement project targeting a 3.4-mile rail trail in New River Gorge National Park and Preserve will take place Tuesday at the Minden trailhead of the Rend Trail. Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., is among speakers scheduled to take part in the 10 a.m. ceremony. Portions of the Rend Trail have been closed for several year
Virginia's Chapel: Efforts underway to restore historic pre-Civil War Cedar Grove church (opens the original)
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Built 173 years ago as a Kanawha County salt baronâs gift to his 18-year-old daughter, Virginiaâs Chapel has survived the test of time but is now in need of some TLC in order to remain an iconic presence along U.S. 60 in Cedar Grove. The Virginiaâs Chapel Foundation, the organization that owns and manages the historic church, is in the midst of a campaign to raise the estimated $42,000 needed to: Construction of the church was authorized by William O. Tompkins, a War of 1812 veteran who mo
George Castelle, long-time public defender who brought down Fred Zain, dead at 77 (opens the original)
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Editor's note: An earlier version of this story misidentified Castelle's graduation year from the WVU School of Law and also misidentified his relationship to stepdaughter Danielle McCallister. George Castelle, Kanawha Countyâs chief public defender from 1989 to 2015, who garnered national recognition for his work in the 1990s on behalf of inmates wrongly convicted on evidence provided by former West Virginia State Police serologist Fred Zain, died July 14 at the Winchester, California, home
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