Buchanshire May Be One Answer To Coalfield Housing Shortage
In southwest Virginia, Island Creek Coal Co. plans Buchanshire a 1 223 acre planned community atop Keen Mountain to house about 6 000 residents by century’s end. The $25 million project will build roads water and sewer lines and extend services to create the first large scale housing solution for coalfield counties.
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Buchanshire
Keen Mountain
Buchanan County
Island Creek Coal Co
Island Creek
Keen
Israeli election dead heat over Likud and Labor in tight early tally
Israeli Television projects a 48-48 dead heat between Prime Minister Begin's Likud and Shimon Peres's Labor based on 10 percent of ballots. Both claim victory, urging coalition talks as no majority emerges. Poll projections vary, signaling possible coalition games and political disarray ahead.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Menachem Begin
Likud
Labor Party
Shimon Peres
National Election Commission
Labor
Peres
Hanoch Smith
Begin
Yitzhak Shamir
Smith
New Bluefield Board In Office Sets Early Start
Bluefield bid in early five weeks as Mayor Paul Cole and Director J Peter Richardson join the board on Tuesday night. Cole, slated to be mayor August first, fills interim term of ex mayor Don Keesling who resigned. Richardson fills Cole’s vacancy. new board vows to boost tax base and invite resident input while addressing unmaintained trees and weeds that damaged a resident’s home.
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Elaine Thompson
Daily Telegraph
City of Bluefield
Paul Cole
J. Peter Richardson
Cole
Don Keesling
Jason McGuire
Richardson
Keesling
Mass funeral in Tehran for 72 killed in IRP blast
Behehsht Zahra cemetery rites unfold as Ayatollah Khomeini blames an underground Marxist group for the Tehran blast. Iran mourners chant anti American slogans while flags drape coffins and mourners recall the deaths of IRP leaders, ministers, and parliament members.
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Khomeini
Beirut
Lebanon
America
Tehran
Parliament House
Martyrs
Behesht Zahra
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruling
Islamic
Republican Party
Iran
Mujahedeen Khaliq
Crusaders
Islamic Republican Party
Abolhassan Bani Sadr
IRP
Mohammad Beheshti
Beheshti
Welch Flood Overwhelms Coney Island Underpass
Heavy rains flood Welch with up to seven feet of water. Firefighters report water entering the Welch station and the Coney Island underpass clogged by drains. Route 52 through town closed. no evacuations, minor accidents reported. Police and fire crews assist as water disrupts local services.
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WELCH
Brian Johnson
Welch Station
Coney Island
Johnson
Ramon Jackson
Fire Department
Which Came First Chicken Egg or Dollar Bill
Mrs Dolly Wyatt of Lake Bottom found four pieces of a $1 bill inside an egg cracked during breakfast. Her husband Verlie owns the chicken that laid the egg, and she kept three bill fragments to show others while noting the odd discovery. A storm warns the Atlantic coast and NBC updates page 8.
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Princeton
Dolly Wyatt
Lake Bottom
Wednesday Warm and Humid Weather With Showers Likely
The forecast calls for warm and humid conditions with occasional showers or thunderstorms through Thursday. Daytime highs range from the mid 70s to the low 80s, with overnight lows in the mid 60s. Thursday highs expected in the 70s.
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National Weather Service
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