Create West Virginia

In 1969 Walter Cronkite announced to the nation in his evening news broadcast that the Environmental Protection Agency declared Chattanooga had the nation’s worst air quality. A few years later, the New York Times published an article noting that Chattanooga was the only major city in the South not experiencing growth.

BERKELEY SPRINGS, WV ---- The Morgan Arts Council (MAC) recently released its latest web-based creation: the Berkeley Springs Virtual Creative Community portal. Designed by MAC board member, Michael Dennis, the single page is a combination of advertisement for Berkeley Springs as a creative community and a handy visual directory and direct link to important segments of that community.

The next West Virginia Jazz Society produced event - Appalachian Jazz Weekend - is scheduled for May 20-23, 2010, in Bridgeport and Clarksburg, WV with free public performances and ticketed events scheduled over three nights and three days.

For the seventy-five people or so who populated one of West Virginia's most high-tech buildings yesterday at the Create WV - Fairmont/Marion County Summit, the issue wasn't whether they wanted to grow their new economy, but what still needed to be done.