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May 14, 2008

Improving the water infrastructure is the goal of a 5.4 million dollar funding package to the town of Wise, Virginia. The Coalfield Progress reports that the combination of grants and loans is from the federal Rural Development Program. The money will go for upgrading the town’s water treatment plant and increasing water storage capacity at the Bear Creek reservoir. The projects are expected to get underway in February of next year. Mayor Cliff Carson said – quote – We’re talking about truly dramatic improvements to the town’s water system – end quote.

COAL REPORT May 13, 2008
The operators of the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah, where nine miners died last year, withheld information from the government, according to a Congressional study. The study said that the deadly accident would probably never have happened if the Murray Energy company had given the government the information it held. In March 2007 the mine suffered a collapse or bump that clearly indicated the mine was becoming unstable. But the company never told the government about the bump, as it was required to do, instead going ahead with plans for similar mining elsewhere in the mine. In August 2007 another bump killed six miners; three more died during rescue efforts.

A while ago someone I know got a fortune in a cookie that read - "Your truest life is in your dreams awake". I had long thought of myself as soldier in an army of dreams, and I find that what transpires in that realm can be as real as anything. This Radio-Gram is made of dreams sweet and strange. After the Regional Roundup and the Coal Report

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WMMT’s Bluegrass Express Live will present Jesse McReynolds and the Virginia Boys, Thursday, June 12 during Appalshop’s 22nd Annual Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival. The performance will take place in the Appalshop Theater in downtown Whitesburg. Doors open at 6:30pm, and the performance will start at 7:00 pm. The Theater is located at 91 Madison Ave.

Changes to our schedule are being considered so that we can respond to the desires of our listeners and enhance financial support for WMMT while remaining true to ourselves. At this time only initial proposed changes exist. Everything is in play and subject to change. WMMT will conduct three very meaningful public hearings. These will take place from 6:00 until 8:00 PM on Tuesday, May 20, Wednesday, May 28, and Monday, June 16 in the Appalshop Theater at 91 Madison Avenue in Whitesburg. Reactions at those meetings will directly shape the final proposal for schedule change.

May 9, 2008

A Magoffin County, Kentucky, man has died as a result of an all-terrain vehicle accident. 51-year-old David Stephens was riding his ATV on Big Pricy Creek Road Sunday when he apparently went off the road and onto an embankment. The ATV then flipped back onto the road, according to the Big Sandy News. He died from severe head injuries.

COAL REPORT May 6, 2008

On today’s show, stories about places and things that are in them. After the Regional Roundup. Note to Coal Report fans: This podcast of Radio-Gram does not contain the Coal Report, look for the Coal Report as a stand alone podcast to be posted May 6.

Who doesn’t love a treasure hunt, well someone I guess – but then this story is not for them. The advent of the Internet and widespread availability of GPS, or global positioning technology has given birth to a new pastime called Geocaching, Community Correspondent Mike Slone brought us this story –

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