All posts tagged: Rural

Trump’s rural health fund won’t reopen this North Carolina hospital : NPR

Trump’s rural health fund won’t reopen this North Carolina hospital : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Debra Pierce holds up a picture of Stanley Sears, her brother, while standing in the yard of the mobile home he was renovating before his death in 2024. Pierce believes North Carolina’s Martin County needs higher-level emergency services and a hospital. Sarah Jane Tribble/KFF Health News hide caption toggle caption Sarah Jane Tribble/KFF Health News WILLIAMSTON, N.C. — Two years after her brother’s death, Debra Pierce still wonders whether the 50-year-old would have survived his heart attack if her local hospital hadn’t closed. “The sad thing is we’ll never know if he could have been saved that night or not, because we don’t have a higher level of care in this county,” Pierce said as she stood outside the mobile home where she last hugged her brother. Emergency crews from a neighboring town worked on Stanley Sears for a half hour but couldn’t revive him for the long drive to the closest hospital, records show. In the tall grass — which would be mowed if Sears were still alive — Pierce swiped through the photos …

Original, Gripping Rural French Crime Comedy

Original, Gripping Rural French Crime Comedy

Published by Daniella Wilson

Both the deadpan thrillers of the Coen brothers and the downbeat ‘70s crime flicks of French helmer Alain Corneau come to mind when watching Too Many Beasts (L’espèce explosive), a promising first feature from director Sarah Arnold that finds clever new ways to tell a familiar story of crooked cops and small-town corruption. What sets this slickly helmed, darkly funny debut apart from other entries to the genre is Arnold’s unusual blend of wildlife, agrarian strife, sexual frustration and longstanding regional feuds, which in this case involve the gentrification of one of France’s oldest pastimes: game hunting. Set in the lush forests and fields of the northeast, the story depicts a gory factional war between hunters and farmers, have and have-nots, with one depressed fish-out-of-water gendarme caught in the middle. Too Many Beasts The Bottom Line Both crazy and contained. Venue: Cannes Film Festival (Directors’ Fortnight)Cast: Alexis Manenti, Ella Rumpf, Vincent Dedienne, Jean-Louis Coulloc’h, Pscal Rénéric, Bertrand Belin, Jade FiessDirector: Sarah ArnoldScreenwriters: Sarah Arnold, Jérémie Dubois, Olivier Seror, Romain Winkler, Mehdi Ben Attia 1 hour …

Selective colleges try harder to get rural students to attend : NPR

Selective colleges try harder to get rural students to attend : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Admitted students and their families, including some from rural areas, take a tour of the Amherst College campus as they decide whether or not to enroll. Lucy Lu/The Hechinger Report hide caption toggle caption Lucy Lu/The Hechinger Report AMHERST, Mass. — Crowding around an Amherst College campus fire pit, earnest-looking high school seniors offered fire-building suggestions as intently as if they were taking a final exam. “This is our test of how rural you are,” the college’s assistant dean of admissions, Nathan Grove, joked before he finally got the neatly stacked logs to ignite so the group could make s’mores: “how good you are at making a fire.” The occasion was a two-day visit to encourage admitted applicants to enroll — including this particular group. These students hail from rural places where top-ranked private colleges like Amherst rarely used to recruit. This gathering around the fire pit was an attempt to make them feel welcome. “I was frankly sort of shocked that they cared about rural students,” said Jack Hancock, a high school senior from …

US wireless carriers to launch joint venture to address rural ‘dead zones’

US wireless carriers to launch joint venture to address rural ‘dead zones’

Published by Sam Flores

WASHINGTON, May 14 : Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile said on Thursday that they agreed in principle to form a new joint venture that seeks to address long-time coverage gaps especially in rural areas by using satellite-based technologies. The largest U.S. wireless companies said the plan seeks to end nearly all dead zones without mobile service. The plan also aims to ensure redundant connectivity during natural disasters and improved network performance using so-called “direct to device” satellite technology. On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission approved EchoStar’s $40 billion sale of wireless spectrum to SpaceX and AT&T. EchoStar is selling 65 megahertz of its spectrum to SpaceX for $17 billion to boost SpaceX’s Starlink’s next-gen device to device offering. The venture will make joint investments in using satellite-based, direct-to-device technologies to address coverage gaps. Some analysts also suggest the joint venture could be defensive as some have raised concerns SpaceX could eventually compete more directly with the U.S. wireless carriers. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told Reuters in an interview the $40 billion spectrum sale provides a very …

A Queer Volleyball Romance, Rural Horror, and More New YA Books for May 13, 2026

A Queer Volleyball Romance, Rural Horror, and More New YA Books for May 13, 2026

Published by Jenni Sidey

You may recall that last week’s roundup of new releases was a big one. Here’s some good news: this week’s is sizable as well. Despite getting closer to summer, which has traditionally been slower for publishing, we’re seeing an uptick in the number of YA books being published. This is great news for YA fans, as well as great news for teens who read YA, who can build up a wonderful TBR for their summer. This week’s new releases span every genre, offering something for every kind of reader. It is an especially good week for romances, as well as books that lean into all things summer. There are several fantastic horror books hitting shelves, as well as many LGBTQ+ books (and, of course, those LGBTQ+ overlap with the array of genres and styles!). If you’re the type of person who loves paperbacks, you’ll be thrilled at the array of new floppy books out this week, too. New Hardcover YA Releases This Week The Hanging Bones by Elle Tesch The Scavenge Moon comes only every …

Damson Madder Just Launched Homeware That Will Transport You To Rural Italy

Damson Madder Just Launched Homeware That Will Transport You To Rural Italy

Published by Sam Flores

We hope you love the products we recommend! All of them were independently selected by our editors. Just so you know, HuffPost UK may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page if you decide to shop from them. Oh, and FYI — prices are accurate and items in stock as of time of publication. Let’s take a moment to wish we could spend the entire summer stashed away at our grandma’s houses. A season marked by delicious food served on delicate platters, by a woman with exquisite taste. Unfortunately as adults, that’s not an option. But here’s the good news: you can be your own nonna. Or be the nonna to your friends, there are no rules. If you’re planning on getting your hosting on in the heat, Damson Madder has just released its spring lifestyle collection, which takes a heavy dose of inspiration from your grandma’s kitchen and dining table. From tomato-printed serving platters, to frilly aprons, it has everything you need to serve lashings of saucy …

Rural communities demand help taking up green diesel | Politics | News

Rural communities demand help taking up green diesel | Politics | News

Published by Sam Flores

Nearly two million homes could save tens of thousands of pounds by using a renewable diesel instead of switching to heat pumps, it has been suggested. Dozens of villagers in Cornwall’s Kehelland are among the 1.7 million UK residents living off grid who could benefit from Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO), a renewable, synthetic, paraffinic diesel fuel made from waste fats, vegetable oils and animal fat. TV presenter Fern Britton is among residents of Padstow, in Cornwall, who has made minor tweaks to her existing boiler to heat her home using HVO. She said: “I am an HVO user and I love it. I loved that my existing boiler was so swiftly adapted to take HVO, and that we are not in the house pumping extra carbon into the atmosphere.” Heating and cooking industry trade body OFTEC said the rollout of the biofuel, starting with a 20% HVO blend, could deliver the equivalent carbon savings of 347,000 heat pump installations. HVO tanker in Cornwall (Image: Jonathan Buckmaster/Daily Express) Read more: New heat pump rule announcement today …

A rural college uses ancient Islamic archives to reconnect students to African legacy

A rural college uses ancient Islamic archives to reconnect students to African legacy

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — In a former segregated school in rural Virginia, an Islamic college has been reconnecting its mostly African American Muslim students with a legacy of faith and scholarship largely erased from mainstream history.  IQOU Theological College, in the town of Charlotte Court House, for the past two years has housed a small, borrowed collection of ancient manuscripts from the West African city of Timbuktu in Mali, a center of Islamic learning that thrived between the 13th and 17th centuries. It’s also a region where many Africans were kidnapped during the transatlantic slave trade.  Hafiz Hassan Ali Qadri, a Quran teacher at the college, said the 17 manuscripts can offer African American Muslims a concrete link to a part of their ancestors’ history. Seeing handwritten works on law, theology, astronomy and other subjects challenges an enduring narrative that enslaved Africans arrived in the United States with little education or scholarly traditions, he said. “It goes full circle, showing that this is where we came from — we came from knowledge,” Qadri said. “And what we’re …

Who is S.A. Cosby? The author behind Obama’s favorite rural noir books

Who is S.A. Cosby? The author behind Obama’s favorite rural noir books

Published by Sam Flores

On the Shelf King of Ashes By S.A. Cosby Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar: 352 pages, $29 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. When the king of Southern noir, S.A. Cosby, sent out his debut novel, “My Darkest Prayer,” it was rejected again and again. “One of the editors said, ‘I just don’t believe this level of violence and intensity exists in rural areas,’” Cosby tells me with a laugh. “I was like, I grew up here. If you live in a rural area and it’s a Friday, Saturday night, there’s not a lot to do but drink and fight and ride around.” He admits he’s exaggerating to some extent. “But Raymond Chandler is exaggerating. Robert Crais is exaggerating. These great writers,” Cosby says. “A novel is not supposed to be a documentary.” For the record: 1:39 p.m. April 17, 2026An earlier version of this article misspelled author Robert Crais’ last name as Cray. His latest, “King of Ashes,” is …