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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 2002
Page
1
A concise WVVA overview highlights tonight's events including a focus on the Women’s Expo and a segment on the NCAA basketball final. Weather details are noted for the A-8 area with forecast specifics to follow.
Bland County in Virginia hosts Marty Hall, representative for U.S. Senator George Allen, at the Bland County Courthouse Conference Room on Route 98. The event runs Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon, with information available by calling (276) 676-2646.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Israel is at war and would strike Palestinian militants relentlessly to achieve a cease fire. He labeled Yasser Arafat the enemy of Israel and the free world, tying the fight to a surge of attacks that killed 15 Israelis in five days as Operation Protective Wall expands beyond Ramallah.
ARIS reports world leaders seek guarantees from Israel that Yasser Arafat will not be harmed during its military offensive. Governments from Asia to Europe urge restraint as fighting rages outside Arafat’s West Bank compound, while Israel says it intends only to isolate him.
In Rocky Gap Virginia Aubrey Terry Gore and family gained a new home through the Indoor Plumbing Rehabilitation Program by the Mount Rogers Planning District Commission. The project began with a well dig and expanded to roof replacement and a full rebuild after an architect deemed the old house unsalvageable. Gore, a Bland County resident, has lived on land his family has owned since the Civil War and is related to Cornelius Charlton, a notable local Black figure.
Speedway homeowners fear a 30 inch natural gas line from a Dominion Transmission route stretching 200 miles from a station near Charleston to Rockingham County North Carolina. The plan would cross Raleigh, Fayette Mercer and Summers counties and parts of Giles and Bland in Virginia. Residents learned about the project after Dominion approached them for property surveys nearby.
Dominion Transmission seeks to lay a 200 mile 30 inch high pressure gas line from a Charleston area station to Rockingham County North Carolina. The route may pass near the Speedway area shown in the accompanying image.
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