This article was originally published by the Charleston Gazette-Mail. O’TOOLE — Flats of bottled water and dozens of plastic jugs filled with water from a nearby spring crowd three rooms in Janet Long’s home in O’Toole, a small hollow wedged among mountainsides and the Tug Fork River on the eastern side […]
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Editor’s Note: This is the ninth story in a series titled “Stirring the Waters,” focused on the lack of clean, reliable drinking water in Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia. Read the full series here. Local officials in McDowell County called a meeting in the town of Bradshaw to talk about […]
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Editor’s Note: This is the eighth story in a series titled “Stirring the Waters,” focused on the lack of clean, reliable drinking water in Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia. Read the full series here. In Southern West Virginia, reliable access to clean water doesn’t just mean getting what you pay […]
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Editor’s Note: This is the seventh story in a series titled “Stirring the Waters,” focused on the lack of clean, reliable drinking water in Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia. Read the full series here. Each morning Tina Coleman turns her faucet, she waits to see what color the water will […]
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Editor’s Note: This is the second story in a series titled “Stirring the Waters,” focused on the lack of clean, reliable drinking water in Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia. Read the full series here. Joanna Bailey remembers crowding around the kitchen table with her family, carefully sticking stamps on […]
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