West Virginia settlements end Civic Center roof suit
In Wheeling a windstorm's roof damage led to a settlement after contractors agreed to pay 80 percent of a 41000 repair bill. The suit cited unsecured roof bolts at the Wheeling Civic Center and named Graziano Construction J J Englert Adams Steel Dalton Little Newport John W Galbreath Turner Construction as defendants. In Morgantown WVU reports over 1.2 million saved through cost cutting including expanding vendor base to 230 250 may reach 400 by year end. In Charleston WV Rep Wise proposes small business incubators to support new ventures sharing facilities utilities and equipment. In Charleston a national legal affairs magazine questions Chief Justice Neely's fit in WV noting his conservative yet pro disadvantaged stance.
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Municipal Auditorium Board
Wheeling Civic Center
Civic Center
Brad Thompson
Graziano Construction Co. Inc
J.J. Englert and Co. Inc
Adams Steel Erection Co
Dalton, Dalton, Little and Newport
John W. Galbreath Co
Turner Construction Co
Morgantown
West Virginia University
Garry Hersman
Charleston
Supreme Court
Richard Neely
West Virginia
Neely
American Lawyer
Darcy Frey
Jurist Provocateur
Fauber Named Virginia Virginian of the Year by Press Association
Bernard M. Fauber chief executive of Kmart will be honored as Virginian of the Year at a July 12 banquet at Wintergreen Resort after being selected for the Parks Mason Award by the Virginia Press Association. Fauber rose from stockboy to top executive, guiding Kmart, Kresge and Jupiters with $21 billion in worldwide sales last year across 33,500 stores.
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Richmond
Kmart
Bernard M. Fauber
Virginia
Virginian
Fauber
Parks- Mason
Virginia Press Association
Wintergreen Resort
Kresge
Jupiters
Union feud turns fatal in Appalachia amid coalmine strikes
Sniper fire hit Local 1440 president Bill Davis's bedroom and a Massey subsidiary power line explosion followed, injuring no one. The attacks hit three Massey operations in Blackberry Creek Ky, part of an eight month union battle led by United Mine Workers President Richard Trumka, with a death last week and broader violence in the region.
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Lobata
West Virginia
Kentucky
Bill Davis
United Mine Workers Union
A.T. Massey Coal Co
Blackberry Creek
Davis
W.va
Massey
Rawl Sales
Don Blankenship
Rocky Hollow
Sprouse Creek
Jim Reed
Hayes West
U.S. 119
Morgan Massey
Hayes
UMW
Richard Trumka
Court battle over church records pits Reid against dissidents
In Norfolk the Rev. Milton A. Reid leads a long running fight with about 200 dissidents from New Calvary Baptist Church seeking membership lists and finances. Judge Alfred W. Whitehurst jailed Reid for contempt over refusing to release records and fined him for noncompliance. The dispute, centering on alleged mismanagement of the 800 member inner city church, continues as Whitehurst orders a secret ballot vote on Reid’s removal and an outside audit.
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Norfolk
Milton A. Reid
Reid
New Calvary Baptist Church
Huntersville
Ulysses Gholson
Alfred W. Whitehurst
Simmer
Whitehurst
Block Grant hearing set for Princeton incubator project
Princeton officials schedule a public hearing for June 10 at 7 30 p m to consider the city’s 200 000 grant application for a Mercer Street incubator generator facility serving a nine county region in southern West Virginia. The council also approves zoning changes and canvassing of votes in today’s municipal election.
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Jim Gilreath
Daily Telegraph
Princeton
Mercer Street
City Council
Jim Juhl
Governor's Office of Economic and Community Development
Region I Planning and Development Council
Juhl
Jim Cannon
Leggett
West Virginia
U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Princeton Task Force For Economic Development
Cannon
Small Business Administration
Small Business
University of Charleston
Second Street
Straley Avenue
Princeton Planning Commission
Virginia Wohlford
Alvin P. McCoy
McCoy
Correction: Engagement Notice Withdrawn by Daily Telegraph
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph retracts a Sunday item announcing Joycelyn Griffin Courts of Tazewell Virginia and Michael M Morrison of Bluefield as engaged. no engagement exists and the paper regrets the publication of the information.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Joycelyn Griffin Courts
Tazewell
Michael M. Morrison
Bluefield
The
Daily Telegraph
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Rawl
Sprouse Creek Processing
National Labor Relations Board
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Preston Elementary School
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Preston Elementary
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