The people of Grafton and Matewan could get up to $150,000 to turn their towns around. Will they? We’re in Matewan, at the United Mine Workers of America headquarters downtown, which is serving as the Turn This Town Around meeting space for the evening. We’ve been there for two hours, watching PowerPoint presentations and talking about grant proposals; it’s now…
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Turning These Towns Around
Building a Better State· Focus· Towns· Turn This Town Around
West Virginia’s young people are fleeing the state. How do we get them to return? Kent Spellman, executive director of the West Virginia Community Development Hub, is at the United Mine Workers Association headquarters in Matewan, speaking to a group of 75 people. He’s at the front of a room dotted with old photographs of coal miners, next to oversized…
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