A month and a half after Lancaster native Emma-Kate Martin was arrested during a mining protest in West Virginia, her case concluded last week before one of the state's circuit court judges.

At a hearing Wednesday before Boone County Judge William Thompson, Martin agreed to plead no contest and received a sentence of 60 days' community service and 60 days' house arrest.

In a phone interview Thursday, Martin said she got credit for time served, so her community service and home confinement will end July 14.

"I was glad I didn't have to plead guilty," she said.

Martin, a 2009 graduate of Penn Manor High School, moved to West Virginia in January to work as a volunteer with the environmental group Climate Ground Zero.

She and Benjamin Bryant, of Lebanon, were arrested May 17 for blocking a road to Massey Energy Co.'s regional office in Boone County, W.Va. The pair oppose mountaintop removal mining.

Massey Energy owns Upper Big Branch mine in Raleigh County, W.Va., where 29 workers were killed in an explosion April 5.

Martin and Bryant were charged with trespassing, conspiracy, obstruction and littering. Boone County Magistrate Porter Snodgrass originally set bail at $100,000 each, then reduced that to $50,000.

Bail was cut to $25,000 with a $2,500 option at a May 21 hearing before Circuit Court Judge Thompson.

In exchange for a guilty plea, Bryant took a deal offered by Thompson that included community service.

Martin did not accept the deal and remained in jail. She was released in early June, under house arrest, on $2,500 bail until her hearing last week.

Asked about her plans, Martin said wants to become more involved with the grass-roots organization Coal River Mountain Watch, helping set up a community greenhouse and community kitchen in the Whitesville, W.Va., area.

Like Climate Ground Zero, Coal River Mountain Watch is against mountaintop removal mining.