Create West Virginia

The Gateway New Economy Council is a group of volunteers in the Eastern Panhandle Region of West Virginia dedicated to serving as a catalyst to ensure the region will have the opportunity to participate fully in, and benefit from, the “New Economy” of the twenty-first century.

By CHARLY MARKWART
Princeton Times

PRINCETON — For many years, local art entrepreneur Lori McKinney has envisioned her native Mercer County becoming what she calls an “arts destination.” Now, the co-owner of Princeton’s RiffRaff Arts Collective is calling on her fellow local artists and art enthusiasts to join her in that dream by participating in the county’s first annual All Together Arts Week.

The City of Welch got a lot of press in July when Mayor Martha Moore announced plans for a riverfront park.

A park on the Tug River? In Welch?

The mayor can be excused if she gets a little testy when people outside McDowell County suggest that maybe everyone who’s still there should pick up and leave.

A group of West Virginia architects who are passionate about community development are positioning the state in the vanguard of creating livable, economically sustainable communities.

They are so committed, in fact, that they are offering services free of charge.

By Heidi Schmalbach

By Jeanne Mozier

Does your community benefit from cooperation between arts and humanities groups, business leaders, social and jurisdictional agencies? If the answer is yes, you may as well get the gold star that proves it.

The West Virginia Certified Arts Community designation is for communities that reap the benefit of high-level cooperation in town and county leadership.

Smart Growth Planners Design State’s First Live/Work Community

This story ran in the State Journal as a picture and extended caption. 

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