The music was recorded during the pandemic at a small studio in downtown Bristol. Dave Eggar has also worked with musicians are diverse as Ralph Stanley and the Rolling Stones.
Susan Cameron
Susan Cameron is a reporter for Cardinal News. She has been a newspaper journalist in Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee for nearly 40 years. She is based in Bristol. Reach her at susan@cardinalnews.org or 276-791-5928.
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For the first time, the coalfields authority is helping fund an addiction treatment center
A new residential addiction recovery facility will be built in Dickenson County, which has had one of the highest overdose rates in the state.
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The Bristol landfill smells so bad the attorney general is suing. Why does it stink so much?
Expert panel report says the odor of rotting garbage and chemicals is caused by a combination of factors — a reaction within the buried waste, likely failure of a liner system, elevated temperatures and settlement.
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Washington County Democrats are rebranding themselves in support of the Second Amendment
Move announced Thursday by chair, who says Democrats can’t connect to rural voters because they don’t understand importance of guns to voters.
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Virginia localities offered 25% financial incentive to use opioid settlement money strictly for remediation and reducing opioid use
The new Opioid Abatement Authority is extending an incentive for localities to follow “Gold Standard” restrictions that would require localities to exclusively fund evidence-based efforts that treat, prevent, or reduce opioid use.
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Virginia Opioid Abatement Authority starts accepting applications for first round of settlement money it controls
Virginia Opioid Abatement Authority starts accepting applications from localities for the first round of settlement money it controls on Thursday. The authority was created by the General Assembly in 2021 to administer money from settlements relating to selling or distributing opioids.
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Attorney General Miyares sues Bristol over landfill stench
The lawsuit, filed Friday, seeks a civil penalty of $32,500 per day for each violation of the state’s environmental laws and regulations.
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Youngkin wants a small nuclear reactor in Southwest Virginia. Here’s what we know about nuclear waste disposal in Virginia.
Questions surround the plan for a small modular reactor in Southwest Virginia and many center on waste. Although there aren’t many answers yet, the only approved SMR design’s waste would have a lot in common with spent fuel from today’s nuclear reactors, about which we know a lot.
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$1.24 million will go to train assistant teachers in Southwest Virginia child care facilities
The funding announced by Gov. Glenn Youngkin is part of a larger effort to expand child care in the region.
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Panelists debate small modular nuclear reactors: Unsafe and unnecessary or another path to a carbon-free economy
Panelists debated the SMR that Gov. Youngkin has proposed for Southwest Virginia Thursday. Some residents and environmental agencies say they’ve been left out of the discussion and SMRs are unproven technology, others argue it’s the best way to go carbon-free.
