Jim Ross

1 month ago | herald-dispatch.com | Jim Ross

APPLE GROVE, W.Va. — Three years ago it was an open field of a few hundred acres — farmland, mostly. At the upper end were an old barn and a silo, partly hidden by trees. Before that, it had been eyed by companies interested in building a hazardous waste incinerator or a paper pulp mill, but those plans came to naught, and the land remained in the hands of Appalachian Power, which waited to sell it to a buyer that would use a humongous amount of electricity.

1 month ago | herald-dispatch.com | Jim Ross

APPLE GROVE, W.Va. — Construction at Nucor Steel West Virginia has been very good for a convenience store near the southern end of the mill site, and a new store at the northern end expects to have the same results. Customers wearing reflective vests and driving trucks bearing the names of construction, engineering and similar companies are a frequent sight at the Jerry’s Run Food Mart at the junction of W.Va. 2 and Jerry’s Run Road near the southern end of the Nucor property.

1 month ago | coalvalleynews.com | Jim Ross

APPLE GROVE, W.Va. — Construction at Nucor Steel West Virginia has been very good for a convenience store near the southern end of the mill site, and a new store at the northern end expects to have the same results. Customers wearing reflective vests and driving trucks bearing the names of construction, engineering and similar companies are a frequent sight at the Jerry’s Run Food Mart at the junction of W.Va. 2 and Jerry’s Run Road near the southern end of the Nucor property.

1 month ago | herald-dispatch.com | Jim Ross

ROME TOWNSHIP, Ohio — A shelter house, new concrete at the river’s edge, a building with a kitchen … and no RVs. The park at the former Lock and Dam 27 near Proctorville, Ohio, could look a lot different in the next 18 months if current plans go through. The park at Lock and Dam 27 is one of four planned for Lawrence County. Others are at Ironton, South Point and Burlington. Keeton manages all 21 projects in 19 Appalachian Ohio counties.

1 month ago | herald-dispatch.com | Jim Ross

Nucor’s $4 billion steel mill under construction a half-hour north of Huntington is half-finished and on schedule for completion late next year. “While construction on our West Virginia sheet mill will continue through 2026, the team there continues to do a great job of moving the project forward,” Nucor CEO Leon Topalian told investment analysts on a conference call Tuesday morning. “We’re near the midpoint of the construction timeline, and equipment installation is well underway.