Elsewhere Company closes Charleston natural gas refueling station
Natural Gas Transportation Corp. has closed a compressed natural gas refueling station in Charleston due to slumping sales and is shutting stations in Martinsburg Weston and Wheeling. The firm will keep stations in Charleston Beckley Buckhannon and Glenville but expects further closures. In May the company estimated 15 000 to 20 000 CNG vehicles would be needed in West Virginia to sustain business.
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Charleston
Natural Gas Transportation Corp
Martinsburg
Weston
Wheeling
Beckley
Buckhannon
Glenville
Ralph Ranson
West Virginia
Rawson
Former Princeton official resigns as county commission head
Draper, the commission's executive director for four years and a former Princeton City Council member and mayor, submitted a resignation effective Aug. 1. He may stay on on an as needed basis to help with a smooth transition and be available if the panel requests.
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Draper
Princeton
Commission
Karen Disibbio
Museum Plans Budget Cuts and Reduced Schedule
The museum will switch to five days a week after Labor Day and four days during the off season from Thanksgiving to April. Outreach programs will be suspended, and maintenance on historic structures postponed. Crop gardens will be eliminated to cut costs, saving about 25,000 dollars. Foundation grants totaling 20,000 dollars will be sought, and a 15,000 dollar fund-raising goal set.
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Scott, Montgomery, Russell, Smyth
Wise
Wythe
Washington
Bland
Pioneer Park
Fike Artel Trust Forms to Finish Superfund Cleanup
Thirty two companies create the Fike Artel Trust to complete cleanup at the Nitro site. EPA planning includes 500000 for soil removal and paving the site, up to 4400000 to excavate or cap a dry lagoon, and up to 13000000 to pump and treat groundwater for 30 years or five years of monitoring to assess natural filtration. Nitro aims to convert the area into an industrial park.
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Fike-Artel Trust
EPA
Kuhn
Nitro
McDowell County Fair Opens with Rides and Contests
The festival runsThursday July 19 through Saturday with lawn mower races baby and pretty legs contests flower show dog show car and ATV events chilli cook-off and a fireworks finale. Daily highlights include crafts art displays workshops 4-H projects coal mining history and food vendors.
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Horne
Tazewell Fair Offers Pageants and Demolition Derby
The Tazewell fair runs August 1 to 4 featuring a genealogy workshop greased pig race magic show four wheel rodeo live band and 4 H Market Lamb Show on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday brings Country Music Night Yankee Grey petting zoo puppet show talent virtual farming youth pageant lawn mower go kart racing and two country music performances. Saturday is Derby Day with horseshoe pitching carnival baby pageant poultry show clowns Elvis tribute Collegians and the Demolition Derby.
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Yankee Grey
Elvis
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