September 2024 by Molly Christian, NRECA GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Electric cooperatives face swiftly rising demand, a tough regulatory environment and a quickly evolving...
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Va. Tech student working to open equine center for hearing-impaired
June 2024 BLACKSBURG, Va. — Seneca Johnston has known precisely what she’s wanted to do since she hopped on a horse at 8 years old. Like most children, she didn’t initially want to go to camp. She wasn’t the most outgoing at that age. But the horses calmed her. “I was...
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Fat is back: Why dairy farmers are curdling more cheese
June 2024 by Joshua Banner, Capital News Service For generations, members of the Shank and Creek families, the owners of Palmyra Farms in Hagerstown, Maryland, approached dairy farming the same way: they milked the cows and sold the milk to a cooperative that...
Port of Virginia on track to have deepest channels on East Coast
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Songbird Needs Protection From Sea Level Rise, Group Tells Feds
Center for Biological Diversity petitions to put saltmarsh sparrow on Endangered Species list May 2024 by Charlie Paullin, Virginia Mercury An environmental organization is asking the federal government to list the saltmarsh sparrow, a bird living on wetlands on the...