Abby Neff

1 week ago | athensindependent.com | Abby Neff

NELSONVILLE, Ohio — Nelsonville City Council reached unprecedented levels of disorder at a meeting April 14 when the Nelsonville Police Department arrested and charged former Council President Rita Nguyen with “disrupting a lawful meeting.”On Monday, Nguyen interrupted the swearing-in of Nic Joseph Saul and Cameron Peck, who were appointed to fill two vacant council seats by Council President Gregg Clement on March 28.

4 weeks ago | wvpublic.org | Bill Lynch |Mason Adams |Kelley Libby |Abby Neff

Aaron Dowdy of alternative country band Fust took an outside path to becoming a songwriter. Also, egg prices are up. Some folks are talking about raising backyard chickens. And, Helvetia, West Virginia’s old world Fasnacht festival continues to grow, in part because of an online video game. Organizers are OK with it. You’ll hear these stories and more this week, Inside Appalachia.

4 weeks ago | athensindependent.com | Abby Neff |Abby stayed

NELSONVILLE, Ohio – Nelsonville City Manager Tom Cangemi — who had been on administrative leave for almost eight months — resigned via email before the council’s regular meeting on March 24.                                                        The council accepted his resignation, which he tendered via email on Monday, with council member Opha Lawson absent. Cangemi’s resignation letter was sent from a Marietta-based labor law firm.

1 month ago | athensindependent.com | Abby Neff |Abby stayed

NELSONVILLE, Ohio – The Nelsonville Ad-Hoc Advisory Commission, which is overseeing Nelsonville’s transition from a charter to a statutory form of government, met Thursday, March 20, to discuss solutions to the “December problem.” The “” is a term coined by Ad-Hoc Advisory Commission Chair Reid Courtney to describe the one-month lapse between the end of the current council members’ terms in December 2025, and the beginning of terms for members of a new, statutory council to be elected a month...

1 month ago | wvpublic.org | Bill Lynch |Mason Adams |Kelley Libby |Abby Neff

During a pandemic, where do you give birth? Also, we’ll have the story of a family that cultivated an heirloom tomato in West Virginia. It took a lot of work. And, a musical tradition brought people together — even when they couldn’t gather in person. You’ll hear these stories and more this week, Inside Appalachia.