Enrollment dip prompts review in Richlands area
Bluefield Daily Telegraph reports Tazewell County schools see an 88 student drop from the end of the 2004-05 year with 6,653 counted initially. Superintendent Brenda Lawson, Assistant Superintendent Gary Williams, and staff plan a second head count Monday as transient families and shifts may affect enrollment in Richlands.
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Four Arrested in Mercer Drug Distribution Case
Four Martinsville, Virginia residents were arrested in Princeton after a drug distribution raid at Budget Inn Motel. A controlled buy netted $2,900 in cash and 121 hydrocodone tablets. Arraigned before Mercer County Magistrate, preliminary hearing set for Sept. 2 in Bluefield. All remain in custody.
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DEP awards contract to reclaim Coalwood mining site
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection awards a 250000 dollar contract to A A Energy of Welch to reclaim a 10 acre Coalwood mining site in McDowell County. The project lasting about a year will remove dangerous highwall seal underground portals drain channels backfill stockpile blending ponds roads holes and regrade lime and revegetate the area. Funding comes from the Special Reclamation Fund sourced from bond forfeitures civil penalties and the special reclamation tax on mined coal.
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Rate hike impacts Appalachian Power customers in West Virginia
Appalachian Power files for a rate increase to recover costs for a 765 kilovolt transmission line from Wyoming County to Jacksons Ferry Virginia. Residential bills would rise about 30 percent over four years, with commercial and industrial hikes of 14 to 24 percent. The PSC could take up to 300 days to rule. a final decision is expected in roughly ten months.
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Mount View Middle and High open in Welch for 2005 06
School leaders praise opening day at Mount View Middle and Mount View High in Welch. Superintendent Mark Manchin reports bright students and minor jitters as 12 of Mercer County's 14 schools meet No Child Left Behind Adequate Yearly Progress. Enrollment expected to rise after Labor Day.
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