📣❗️ANNOUNCEMENT ❗️ 📣 100 Days in Appalachia & YNST Magazine are proud to present NOISE: A Limited Edition Zine and Archive of the Appalachia@250 project. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@dailyyonder.bsky.social recently analyzed crowd-sourced data on the locations of data centers in the United States, how they connect to existing grid infrastructure, and where communities are pushing back on the projects www.100daysinappalachia.com/2026/07/we-m...

Data center home buyouts come to West Virginia. Watch the latest Appalachian News Roundup. youtube.com/shorts/A6P1g...

Are you a journalist whose reporting focuses on faith and religion in America? Reporting on Religion launching its first microgrant program.

40 years after its designation as a national wildlife refuge, Muskingum Island’s 13 gas and oil wells are finally being plugged. www.100daysinappalachia.com/2026/06/musk...

Follow journalist and photographer Kristian Thacker, as he examines the collaboration between federal officials, oil well workers and biologist divers to protect Muskingum Island’s future. youtu.be/qTpUZzH-35Y?...

We’re hosting a documentary and zine storytelling workshop for young adults, ages 18-25, at The Co-op in Morgantown, WV, on May 30 from 10-3 p.m. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We are excited to welcome the newest member of our newsroom, Caelan Bailey, a @reportforamerica.bsky.social corps member covering the New Rural Landscape.

Over time, our communities change shape. We innovate. We introduce new ideas. We build new structures. We keep moving. What’s the newest thing in your community? Tell us here: www.100daysinappalachia.com/submit-250/ #appalachia250

Appalachia@250 asks you to narrate this moment in time in your own words and design an ideal future.

Political parties, AIPAC gifts, and worker safety. Here is the latest Appalachian News Roundup. youtube.com/shorts/RNnU0...

Political parties, AIPAC gifts, and worker safety

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100 Days launched a multimedia community engagement project that invites young folks in Appalachia to submit video, photos, artwork, writing, etc. in response to prompts. Info at the link, but feel free to message me if you want more details! www.100daysinappalachia.com/submit-250/

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“I think about the Potomac and the towpath as threads that lace through my … as a college student in Shepherdstown, W.Va., and then as a budding reporter learning to understand the region in a different way.”

Six people affiliated with the Addiction Recovery Care — as staff, clients or those who sought treatment and were later hired — told journalists they found themselves wrapped up in the company’s alleged billing scheme. buff.ly/RKZE1MY

They Needed Treatment for Drug Addiction. The Company They Turned to May Have Used Them to Commit Fraud.

Many credit Addiction Recovery Care with playing a key role in their sobriety. But most also said they felt betrayed by the organization.

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“I believe it’s really important to carry these tunes on to the next generations and to play them, because it not only sustains the tradition, it also sustains the community that creates the tradition.” #appalachia250 youtu.be/bdjqF_oFej8?...

“I think about the Potomac and the towpath as threads that lace through my … as a college student in Shepherdstown, W.Va., and then as a budding reporter learning to understand the region in a different way.”

Our first question: What's the oldest thing in your community? Send us your response by May 4! #appalachia250

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Cool multimedia community engagement project from @appalachia100.bsky.social: Appalachia@250, part of the national US@250 initiative. Teens & 20-somethings can submit writing, photos, art, etc. Some submissions may be published digitally, or as part of a zine in partnership with YNST Magazine.

What’s the oldest thing in your community? Tell us here by May 4: buff.ly/yM5bsOL #appalachia250

What’s the oldest thing in your community? Appalachia@250: Dreams for a Shared Future, asks you, Appalachians ages 18 to 25, to narrate this moment in time and design an ideal future. Tell us here: www.100daysinappalachia.com/submit-250/

In this interview, photographer Maddie McGarvey describes what brought her to the craft, her career photographing rural Appalachia and how she carried out a project photographing the same family for 15 years. www.100daysinappalachia.com/2026/04/qa-t...

Q&A: The Photographer Documenting Appalachian Poverty, And Resilience

Maddie McGarvey has spent her career photographing rural Appalachia. She says she wants to bear witness to the struggle and resilience in forgotten pockets of the nation.

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From classroom accessibility challenges to FEMA buyout offers for houses damaged by Hurricane Helene and an uncertain silica dust rule, we look at how federal action might play out across the region. youtube.com/shorts/l6V5d...

What’s the federal government up to in Appalachia?

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An interfaith group prayed outside Pittsburgh’s ICE office on Good Friday, aiming to connect the suffering of Jesus with the suffering of immigrants in the U.S., as the Trump administration continues its crackdown. youtube.com/shorts/PxLUH... This story is a collaboration w/ @publicsource.org

Interfaith group leads Good Friday prayer outside Pittsburgh ICE office

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Following the end of West Virginia’s 2026 legislative session, we’ve gathered the highlights: What legislation passed, what didn’t and what it all means for the Mountain State and Appalachia at large. buff.ly/vMzJUWL

Personnel in heavy gear clearly marked as ICE or Homeland Security Investigations were moving through the Pittsburgh International Airport terminal this week. More here: buff.ly/qKhbOZg Video collab w/ @appalachia100.bsky.social

Five developers are planning to build six data center campuses in Archbald, Pa., which will cover a full 14 percent of the town, evict a trailer park, and border many residential properties. www.100daysinappalachia.com/2026/03/the-...

Community organizers and local faith leaders gathered at the W.Va. Capitol in opposition to the state's participation in ICE's Program 287(g), which gives state and local law enforcement the power to enforce specific immigration laws. buff.ly/hfCTpyp

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Our short film, “Fasnacht in Helvetia, West Virginia,” will screen on the opening night of this year’s Appalachian Film Festival, held March 20-22, at Foundry Theater in Huntington, W.Va. See the full schedule and buy tickets: www.foundrytheater.org/shows

@appalachia100.bsky.social partnered with journalist and Minnesotan @katiegnelson.bsky.social to document how Minneapolis residents used grassroots organizing to counter the influx of federal immigration agents, leading to the end of Operation Metro Surge www.100daysinappalachia.com/2026/02/minn...

As federal immigration agents descended on Minneapolis, residents deployed mutual aid to protect their neighbors

Like neighbors mucking-out flooded basements in McDowell County, to public showings of solidarity across the rust belt, to miners striking in the 1920s — Minneapolis is leading in the long grassroots ...

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Fifteen of the 650 people ICE reported had been arrested in a January operation have asked West Virginia judges to order their release, arguing they are unconstitutionally detained www.100daysinappalachia.com/2026/02/more...

More ICE detainees ordered released by West Virginia judges: ‘A threat to anyone’s constitutional rights is a threat to us all’

Three different federal judges have ordered four more immigrants picked up in January’s ICE raids released on constitutional grounds

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Apply to become 100 Days' New Rural Landscape reporter by February 16 www.reportforamerica.org/reporters/

Helvetia, West Virginia's 59th annual Fasnacht happens Saturday. And dozens will masquerade in playful handmade masks to scare away Old Man Winter. Watch scenes from last year's parade: youtube.com/shorts/QgmZz...

Fasnacht's Masquerade in Helvetia, West Virginia

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