Keep An Eye On the Tri-State

To accelerate land conservation along the Appalachian Mountains to counter climate change and its impacts, the Open Space Institute (OSI) announced the launch of its $18 million Appalachian Landscapes Protection Fund (ALPF), which will focus, in part, on protecting key sections of Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.

In the tri-state region, Volunteer Energy Cooperative will use a $3.7 million ReConnect grant to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises network to connect 2,687 people, 79 farms and nine businesses to high-speed broadband internet in Meigs County, Tennessee.

Thrive has joined Vanderbilt’s VECTOR research team to conduct a case study along the Tennessee River to support development of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Port Resilience Guide.

The city of East Ridge on the Tennessee/Georgia state line, has joined 15 other communities across the tri-state region in the Thriving Communities creative placemaking network.

Sam Welty, an artist from Norfolk, Virginia, painted a mural that celebrates the women's suffrage movement in downtown Athens, Tennessee.

In a small corner of the Southeast, a sustainable economic development organization launches a bold vision to preserve the region’s Appalachian beauty and way of life.

Shannon Millsaps, Thrive's Operations Manager, was named to Chatter's 20 Under 40 List for 2020.

Pigeon Mountain’s Wildflower Wonderland Pigeon Mountain’s Wildflower Wonderland Pigeon Mountain, located just west of LaFayette, Georgia, is essentially an arm of Lookout Mountain. It stretches for about ten miles northeast of its divergence from the east side of Lookout Mountain, and is largely contained within the 20,657-acre state-owned Crockford-Pigeon Mountain Wildlife Management Area. The mountain reaches an elevation of around 2,330 feet at its highest point, and overlooks the pastoral V-shaped McLemore Cove, which lies between it and Lookout Mountain.