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What on Earth (is going on in the Clearfork Valley?)

What On Earth (is going on in the Clearfork Valley) is our newsletter, detailing some of the happenings in the Clearfork communities and connecting local and global issues to a wider audience. It is distributed free in local businesses and gathering places or by mail through a $15/year subscription. For information about how to subscribe, please e-mail us

A select list of previous articles follows.

  • Volume 8, No 7 (July 9, 2007): Annual Report
  • Volume 8, No 6 (June 15, 2007): Mountains, In Praise of Mountain Women gathering, bear sightings at White Oak
  • Volume 8, No 5 (May 17, 2007): Local graduates, Kids, Trees, and Water
  • Volume 8, No 4 (April 18, 2007): Wind storm, Notre Dame visit, Earth Day celebrations
  • Volume 8, No 3 (March 28, 2007): Education, community-college partnerships, community-based research, community memories
  • Volume 8, No 2 (February 12, 2007): Music in the Clearfork, White Oak Opportunity Store, Water in Buffalo Hollow
  • Volume 8, No 1 (January 15, 2007): Distribution Dilemmas, Excise Tax Credit, scholarship opportunity, Christmas activities at Model Valley and Eagan Baptist
  • Volume 7, No 16 (December 12, 2006): Christmas Parades, Christmas budgeting
  • Volume 7, No 15 (November 4, 2006): Planned trip to Berea, The Gathering in Norris, TN, Remembering Archer Center School, Mined Land Reforestation
  • Volume 7, No 14 (October 12, 2006): Benefits of Olive Oil, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Girl Scouts, Parent Resource Center
  • Volume 7, No 13 (September 8, 2006): Invitation to next Summer Evening at Eagan on education, encounter with a bee, exploring Mountain Top Removal in West Virginia, Wonders of Our Mountains in Wise, Virginia
  • Volume 7, No 12 (August 28, 2006): Women's art project from 1970, July Thinking New Thoughts (Summer Eavenings at Eagan)
  • Volume 7, No 11 (August 12, 2006): Berea-Woodland Partnership, Entrepreneurship for the Public Good
  • Volume 7, No 10 (July 23, 2006): Mountain to Mountain trip to Washington, DC, Entrepreneurship for the Public Good, Reflections on Freedom, Eagan Reunion,
  • Volume 7, No 9 (June 29, 2006): Our Father's House in Morley, Library in Clairfield, Visitors at CCI, local veteran profile, community reports
  • Volume 7, No 8 (June 12, 2006): The flow of money in a community, mobilization of resources to meet local needs
  • Volume 7, No 7 (May 23, 2006): Local graduates
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  • Volume 7, No 5 (April 12, 2006): Watershed monitoring in Kentucky and Tennessee, Carbon dioxide emissions and public policy, Signs from God
  • Volume 7, No 4 (March 29, 2006): Details on Earth Day celebrations, Parent Resource Center reports, visits from university students
  • Volume 7, No 3 (March 14, 2006): A Season of Change: Women in Society, Profile of Alla Faye Rutheford, Drug Task Force meeting at White Oak Church of God, History of Earth Day
  • Volume 7, No 2 (February 14, 2006): Charles Walker and Ralph Lambdin, local artisans, Tree Crafts, Update on water connections to Pruden and Fonde
  • Volume 7, No 1 (January 19, 2006): Coal Mining, Martin Luther King Jr