More death of the coal region news

I feature some telling headlines from my hometown now and then, today’s offers more compelling information that the dream of the coal region, once filled with hope and coal in veins, is slowly becoming a relic of a past generation..

Catholic parishes in Ashland, Gordon and Girardville to merge

This is a double whammy, of sorts: A region losing its luster, and a religion losing its collections. 

Telling tales from northern boundary of the coal region this Sunday morning..