Highway officials prefer willing sellers in parkway plan By: Nerissa Young, Register-Herald Reporter May 08, 2002 HINTON - State highway officials said the same thing Tuesday they said 16 months ago - property to construct the New River Parkway will come from willing sellers and the highway will follow the existing road path. Yet, opponents who termed the whole project a "federal land grab" didn't seem too happy they had won. A group of flag-emblazoned blue T-shirt-clad women calling themselves the Sisters of the River asked highway officials to abandon the workshop format for the supplemental draft environmental impact...