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@CACReunion and @TNTHOF historian awards. Ex-newspaper guy (alas). Go Hoos. linktr.ee/steelbeltsteve
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High Spirits on the Farm: Illinois Co-op Boosts Grain-to-Bottle Endeavor

High Spirits on the Farm: Illinois Co-op Boosts Grain-to-Bottle Endeavor

Eastern Illini Electric Co-op taps REDLG program to boost unique organic distillery in Illinois.

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Going the Distance: Illinois Lineworker's Ultrarunning Benefits Local Greenway

Going the Distance: Illinois Lineworker's Ultrarunning Benefits Local Greenway

Illinois lineworker tests ultrarunning endurance courses to raise money for local greenway.

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At North Carolina Co-op, GI Bill Program Helps Veteran Chart Career Path

At North Carolina Co-op, GI Bill Program Helps Veteran Chart Career Path

The GI Bill apprenticeship program is providing an opportunity for career advancement for co-op employees who…

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Delaware, Maryland, Virginia Co-ops Restore Power Amid Their Worst Blizzard in Years

Delaware, Maryland, Virginia Co-ops Restore Power Amid Their Worst Blizzard in Years

A blizzard knocked out power to tens of thousands of co-op members in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, with f…

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Emptying the Toolbox: Co-ops Relied on Creativity to Combat Hurricane Helene's Onslaught

Emptying the Toolbox: Co-ops Relied on Creativity to Combat Hurricane Helene's Onslaught

Looking back one year later at the co-op recovery efforts from Hurricane Helene.

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Partnerships, Preparation Equal Power for Florida Co-op After Hurricane Double Whammy

Partnerships, Preparation Equal Power for Florida Co-op After Hurricane Double Whammy

Hurricane Milton caused catastrophic flooding and damage that Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative and it…

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Storm Soldiers: Lineworkers Travel From Far and Farther to Battle Hurricane Helene

Storm Soldiers: Lineworkers Travel From Far and Farther to Battle Hurricane Helene

Electric cooperative lineworkers by the hundreds traveled from faraway states to help restore power at co-ops…

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'All Eyes on Us': How Electric Co-op Communicators Rose to the Occasion in the Aftermath of Helen...

'All Eyes on Us': How Electric Co-op Communicators Rose to the Occasion in the Aftermath of Helen...

An opportunity to shine: Communicators work Helene with diligence, transparency, creativity.

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The Ties That Bind: A South Carolina Co-op Was In the Dark After Hurricane Helene, but It Was Not...

The Ties That Bind: A South Carolina Co-op Was In the Dark After Hurricane Helene, but It Was Not...

Hurricane Helene caused massive devastation at a small South Carolina co-op, but it couldn't blemish the prin…

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Rivers Rerouted, A Truck in the Water: Mountain Electric Remembers Helene

Rivers Rerouted, A Truck in the Water: Mountain Electric Remembers Helene

The physical and financial damage Hurricane Helene inflicted in just a few hours will challenge Mountain Elec…

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'We'd Never Seen Anything Like That': For Co-ops in the Carolinas, Helene Was Uncharted Territory

'We'd Never Seen Anything Like That': For Co-ops in the Carolinas, Helene Was Uncharted Territory

Hurricane Helene caused unheard-of destruction in the Carolinas; power restoration involved help from electri…

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'The Storm That Sticks Around With Us for a Long, Long Time': A Year Later, Co-ops Reflect on Hel...

'The Storm That Sticks Around With Us for a Long, Long Time': A Year Later, Co-ops Reflect on Hel...

A year after Hurricane Helene walloped co-ops in seven states, CEOs, lineworkers and staffers discuss the str…

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The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: Classic Characters

The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: Classic Characters

The newest addition to the popular Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame series by Steven Johnson and Greg Oliver takes …

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A Kiwi Role: Remembering Mat Historian Dave Cameron - Slam Wrestling

A Kiwi Role: Remembering Mat Historian Dave Cameron - Slam Wrestling

With more than a quarter-century as a fan, accumulator, researcher and author, the breadth of David Ian Camer…

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Mat Matters: Discovering and rediscovering Jim Londos

Mat Matters: Discovering and rediscovering Jim Londos

For 20 years Slam Wrestling has been the leader in sports entertainment, wrestling news.

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'The Bridges Are Gone, the Roads Are Gone': How One Co-op Is Coping With Helene

'The Bridges Are Gone, the Roads Are Gone': How One Co-op Is Coping With Helene

Amid tragedy, the cooperative spirit promises to drive French Broad to restore power to devastated parts of N…

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Hardest-Hit Co-ops Face Weeks of Restoration Work in the Wake of Helene

Hardest-Hit Co-ops Face Weeks of Restoration Work in the Wake of Helene

A week after Hurricane Helene rammed ashore at Florida's Big Bend and left a devastating path of damage throu…

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For Co-ops Grappling With Helene's Destruction, It's All Hands on Deck

For Co-ops Grappling With Helene's Destruction, It's All Hands on Deck

As electric cooperatives deal with damage from Hurricane Helene, co-op personnel do whatever needs to be done.

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Line Crews Lean on Cooperative Spirit in the Wake of Helene's Destruction

Line Crews Lean on Cooperative Spirit in the Wake of Helene's Destruction

Power restoration work continued for following devastation inflicted by Hurricane Helene, which has caused as…

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'This Is an Unprecedented Situation': Co-ops Pick Up the Pieces After Helene

'This Is an Unprecedented Situation': Co-ops Pick Up the Pieces After Helene

Three days in, electric cooperatives are still struggling to assess damage from Hurricane Helene.

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Hurricane Helene: Tracking the Co-op Response

Hurricane Helene: Tracking the Co-op Response

Electric cooperative crews in the Southeast responded quickly to restore power after Helene made landfall Sep…

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Electric Co-ops Faced With 1.25 Million Outages in the Wake of Hurricane Helene

Electric Co-ops Faced With 1.25 Million Outages in the Wake of Hurricane Helene

Lineworkers from across the country encountered catastrophic damage from Hurricane Helene as they laboriously…

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It's true, Kurt Angle a CAC hero

It's true, Kurt Angle a CAC hero

LAS VEGAS-Lou Thesz would be proud. The legendary world champion knew Kurt Angle was the real deal when he sa…

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Grit and Determination Bring an Iowa Co-op and a Community Back From Disaster

Grit and Determination Bring an Iowa Co-op and a Community Back From Disaster

An optimistic spirit pervades Farmers Rural Electric Cooperative as it helps a community and co-op employees …

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