Upshur County honors Community Action’s 60th anniversary and proclaims May as Community Action Month

BUCKHANNON – Community Action will celebrate its 60th anniversary this year. Community Action Agencies are local private and public non-profit organizations that aim to reduce poverty and empower low-income individuals and families to become self-sufficient. They were created through the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty...