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Huntington, WV Named America's Best Community
Huntington took home 1st Place in the America's Best Communities competition. The competition focuses on revitalizing America's rural cities and many cities from all over the country submitted their revitalization plan to be judged by a panel. Huntington submitted a revitalization plan for their community 3 years ago, and tonight, they won 1st place and $3,000,000 to go towards their plan.

For more about Huntington's plan go here: https://americasbestcommunities.com

Among the top 3 Best Communities were Huntington (Home of Marshall) and Statesboro (Home of Georgia Southern). Congrats Herd!
04-19-2017 06:31 PM
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RE: Huntington, WV Named America's Best Community
Must be because we get better drugs from Detroit.

In seriousness, a lot of people in the community put in a huge amount of work in to winning this thing. Congrats to them.
04-19-2017 09:59 PM
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RE: Huntington, WV Named America's Best Community
Best of luck.
I've seen a lot of revitalization plans and too many end up not helping a lot but the ones I've seen work truly make their community better.
Simply having a university puts Huntington ahead of most places. Makes the odds of that added capital paying off a lot higher.
04-19-2017 10:03 PM
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The mayor of Huntington a Marshall alumus and football player has truly tried to turn Huntington around since he has been mayor in 2013. Steve Williams I believe is one of those that truly want to not only turn Huntington around but the state also. Way toooooooo many in office in the state of WV is just out to get theirs and screw the people or the state.
04-20-2017 12:09 AM
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RE: Huntington, WV Named America's Best Community
(04-20-2017 12:09 AM)HerdZoned Wrote:  The mayor of Huntington a Marshall alumus and football player has truly tried to turn Huntington around since he has been mayor in 2013. Steve Williams I believe is one of those that truly want to not only turn Huntington around but the state also. Way toooooooo many in office in the state of WV is just out to get theirs and screw the people or the state.

Huntingtonians are a might peeved he gave himself a raise while laying off a bunch of police and firefighters. He's not too popular there right now.
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Congrats on winning this prize. I hope it helps! I know that part of the country is in need of some sort of revitalization. This isn't a dig towards Marshall at all but a lot of jobs have been lost in the hills and this could do a lot to help the community!
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Better news is I saw a big long train full of coal rolling through Huntington yesterday. That's what will get things moving around here again.
04-20-2017 12:23 PM
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RE: Huntington, WV Named America's Best Community
(04-20-2017 01:38 AM)MUther Wrote:  
(04-20-2017 12:09 AM)HerdZoned Wrote:  The mayor of Huntington a Marshall alumus and football player has truly tried to turn Huntington around since he has been mayor in 2013. Steve Williams I believe is one of those that truly want to not only turn Huntington around but the state also. Way toooooooo many in office in the state of WV is just out to get theirs and screw the people or the state.

Huntingtonians are a might peeved he gave himself a raise while laying off a bunch of police and firefighters. He's not too popular there right now.

He refused the raise that Council gave him.
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RE: Huntington, WV Named America's Best Community
Mayor of Huntington is a Marshall alumni. Gov is a Marshall alum. Our 2 State Senators we to to WVU & Duke & our House Rep went to Florida.

Hopefully the $ will go to great use. Huntington has changed a lot since 1998 when I first came here and it's for the better. Looking forward to what this $3 million does
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I hope this is the start of something big, but some of the powers that be in Huntington have been the city's worst enemy. Back in the early 1980's Huntington could have beat Charleston to the superblock concept, but in fighting stalled the project and a couple of decades later they settled for a scaled down version of the concept. Huntington has potential but the small business owners that run the town have to stop viewing larger national chains as enemies that will run the out of business.
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Always nice to see good people come together for the greater good, to make the places where they live better for everyone. Congrats on the achievement.
04-20-2017 07:49 PM
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