Marion City Council Approves Minimum Housing Standards
After several months of consideration and discussion, the city of Marion now has minimum standards for housing. Mike Conley, mcdowellnews.com,…
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Donations Spark Purchase of Trail Bikes
Requests from cyclists encouraged Friends of the Roanoke Canal Museum to donate $1,000 for additional bikes. Carolyn Harmon, rrdailyherald.com, March…
Citizen Group Champions More Recreation Opportunities
In Western Rockingham County, a group of citizens are pushing for more and better recreation opportunities beyond the Madison-Mayodan Recreation…
Program Helps Students Learn Farm-to-Table Initiative
Students at Icard Elementary recently were given the opportunity to understand how food is not grown in a grocery store,…
2017 in Review: Government and Civic Affairs
2017 was an election year for both the city of Marion and the town of Old Fort. In the Marion…
Revitalizing a Community Begins with its Residents
While the entire nation felt the impact of the Great Recession in 2009, rural areas like Edgecombe and Nash Counties…
Dr. Laura Gerald: Listening and Learning to Make our Work Stronger
As we near the end of the year, I want to share what we’ve been focusing on in 2017 at…
McDowell Health Coalition holds Annual Meeting
Friday afternoon, the McDowell Health Coalition looked back at its accomplishments while continuing the work of transforming “McDowell County into…