In Around West Virginia: veterans are farming on a mountaintop in Raleigh County; a former Marshall University football player is getting back his stolen championship ring; the creator and star of "Hamilton" shouts out a Huntington podcast at the Tony Awards, and more.
n Six veterans are farming 20 acres of plowed ground on a mountaintop in Raleigh County as part of a project with the state Department of Agriculture meant to showcase job possibilities around the Mountain State, reports the Register-Herald. "Most people go to active duty because they don't think there's a job in West Virginia, and so with this program we can show them they can be in the Guard, serve in the military and still have a job, especially with coal and a lot of other industries going away," said Tony Johnson, who was deployed to the Middle East several times.
n Former Marshall University football player Joey Stepp will get his championship ring back in the next few days. The ring was stolen eight years ago, but last week, Stepp received a Facebook message from someone telling him, "I have something of yours I need to return," the Herald-Dispatch reports.
n Answering questions at the Tony Awards on Sunday night, Lin-Manuel Miranda mentioned a Huntington podcast as a source of inspiration. Miranda's hip-hop musical "Hamilton" won 11 Tony awards at the Tony's.
n The Martinsburg Journal continues its "Unsung Heroes" series, which features a local veteran each Monday from Memorial Day through Veterans Day, with the story of a Navy nurse couple who met 36 years ago in an intensive care unit.