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By KATE MORGAN | Special To The Washington Post | Published: January 22, 2021 There are moments, as you drift through the deep canyon walls of the New River Gorge, when it feels like you ve got the whole world to yourself. It s just you and the river, littered with massive, prehistoric boulders that were here when the coal mining camps were built, and the fur trading posts before them, and the Shawnee and Cherokee villages before those. In a river that geologists say could be one of the world s oldest, you can lose yourself in time. Then the current picks up, and you re back to paddling like mad, navigating the chutes and eddies of heart-pounding white water.
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Lizzie Watts, Superintendent of New River Gorge National Park and Preserve stands in front of the new park sign at the park’s administrative headquarters in Glen Jean.
Robert Seay has been hunting in the New River Gorge since he was born, nearly. His family has hunted there for almost a century.
“It’s just a beautiful place, I mean something about watching the fog rise, hearing the roar of the river and watching the sunset,” said Seay, a fishing and hunting guide in Southern West Virginia. “It’s not just about the hunting. The deer or the game is just a bonus. It’s doing what your family’s done where you learned to do it.”
Norwich The City Council will vote Tuesday to rescind authority given to the Norwich Community Development Corp. to administer a $219,569 COVID-19 business relief grant as the agency undergoes a leadership transition following the sudden death of former President Jason Vincent.
Vincent, 46, died in an apparent suicide, his vehicle found late on Dec. 30 at the center of the giant New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia and his body discovered at a dam five miles downstream Jan. 4.
City and NCDC officials cited NCDC’s shorthandedness during the transition for rescinding authority given to the city s economic development agency to oversee the grant. Mayor Peter Nystrom added that removing control of the grant from NCDC also would avoid potential conflicts of interest if businesses that lease space in NCDC s Foundry 66 shared workspace or that have other ties to NCDC wanted to apply for the grants.
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Sunrise over New River Gorge
With interest in domestic travel and outdoor adventure surging, maybe it’s time you pencil in this destination on your “Places To Go” list. J.D. Simkins – January 13, 2021 | Updated January 20, 2021
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Amid a tumultuous past couple of months that have steered the attention of much of the country, Congress quietly passed a bill in late December that granted official designation to one region as Americaâs 63rd national park.
West Virginiaâs New River Gorge, a 70,000-acre region highlighted by rolling mountains and the picturesque New River, was officially given the designation as part of the aptly named New River Gorge National Park and Preserve Designation Act.