Snowshoe Resort Ordered Open as Trustee Seeks Buyer
A federal bankruptcy judge ordered Snowshoe Resort to stay open for business while a court-appointed trustee searches for a buyer. Trustee Michael Bray may operate, hire a consultant, or lease Snowshoe, the largest ski resort in West Virginia, which has struggled in bankruptcy and failed to draw bidders at auctions.
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Elkins
U.S
Robert Maxwell
Pocahontas County
Lowell Markey
Maxwell
Clarksburg
Michael Bray
Bray
MacDonald study in prison as murder case nears appeal
Jeffrey MacDonald, jailed on three life terms for his wife and two daughters murders, says his thoughts return to that night and that he has fair days yet rarely free of the memory. He expects to win freedom on his next appeal, while college students’ letters haunt him. Lt James K Sterner, a Woodbridge Navy officer, was stabbed to death aboard the frigate Miller off the East Coast with no suspects. the ship will remain offshore as investigators interrogate the 200 crew.
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Richmond (Ap
Jeffrey MacDonald
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Green Beret
Norfolk
Woodbridge
James K. Sterner
Miller
Navy
Newport
R.I
Naval Investigative Service
Television intrusion at judicial forum noted in Richmond
Panelists at a Richmond forum on courts and media say television is more intrusive than print. University of Virginia scholar David M. O'Brien cites four cameras and harsh lights hindering thought. Attorney Deborah C. Wyatt argues TV shows public events, not secondhand accounts, in Briley case context.
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Richmond
David M. O'Brien
O’brien
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
Deborah C. Wyatt
Honest misunderstanding over Mercer Health funds sparks row
Mercer County Commission President Ray Bragg calls a funding dispute with the Board of Health an honest misunderstanding. The Board says the county owes $15,030 for 1984 85 and the commission may authorize extra funds if money is available after July. County Clerk Rudolph Jennings says the Board’s records are incorrect and outlines past budgeting practices and misallocated $5,000 across fiscal years.
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Princeton
Mercer County Commission
Ray Bragg
Commission
Mercer County Board of Health
Health Department
Board of Health
Bragg
Rudolph Jennings
Wilson Harvey
Green Valley
Bluestone Health Clinic
Jennings
Health Board
Allen Dyer
Commis
Videotape shows Bluefield sewer line problems and overhaul
A videotape taken in Bluefield sewers shows tree roots and cracked terra cotta pipes causing leaks in the Oakhurst section. The Bluefield Sanitary Board plans pipe replacement or easements, with a $1,789,580 fiscal year budget approved and a five percent raise for all staff. Eastern Utilities Specialists conducted the camera inspection and recommended plastic pipes with overlapping joints to prevent future leaks. The board also cited Bluefield Beverage Co for dumping 1,500 gallons of corn syrup, triggering additional wastewater controls and an analyzer installation costing about $5,000.
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Bluefield
Bluefield Sanitary Board
Bluefields
Eastern Utilities Specialists Inc
Manassas
Eastern Utilities
Oakhurst
Bluefield Sanitary
Terry Honaker
Art Mead
Mead
Norris Kantor
Kantor
Honaker
Bluefield Beverage Co
Environmental Protection Agency
Massey sidesteps Moore's request in coal dispute
The A T Massey Coal Co chief sidestepped Gov Arch Moore's offer to mediate in the bitter 82 month strike with United Mine Workers. Massey said he would welcome Moore's intervention to stop violence but did not invite him to talks. The dispute centers on a common employer vs separate agreements for subsidiaries and ongoing mediation by the Federal Mediation Service. Moore urged rapid progress to end the conflict and protect West Virginia's economy.
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Charleston
A.T. Massey Coal Co
Arch Moore
United Mine Workers Union
E. Morgan Massey
Massey
Moore
Federal Mediation Service
UMW
West Virginia
Kentucky
National Labor Relations Board
Richard Trumka
Martha Layne Collins
Trumka
Dalesio Named City Editor Of Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Thomas A. Dalesio executive director of the Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce is named city editor of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph effective July 8. He is 32 and resigns from the chamber after starting July 15 1983.
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Thomas A. Dalesio
Greater
Weirton
Dalesio
West Virginia University
Bluefield
Weirton Chamber of Commerce
Weirton Steel Company
National Steel Corporation
Steubenville
Ohio
Herald Star
Bluefield Chamber
Buck arraigned in Brink's robbery case in Charleston
Marilyn Jean Buck, 37, a Texas woman linked to the Black Liberation Army, was arraigned in federal court on a charge of escaping from Alderson prison. She refused to take the legal oath, saying she would answer only questions she deemed relevant.
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Charleston
Texas
Brink’s
New York
Marilyn Jean Buck
FBI
Black Liberation Army
Federal Women's
Alderson
Buck
Meadows kin chase billion-dollar Spindletop fortune claim
Central Appalachia Meadows family members search their lineage for a fortune tied to James Meadows who owned part of Texas’s Spindletop field. Courts have seen two inheritance suits, one dismissed. heirs seek birth and death certificates to prove lineages while awaiting riches to fund cars, homes, travel, famine relief, and church.
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Logan
Meadows
Appalachia
Texas
James Meadows
Jefferson County
Linda Meadows
Clay
John Howard Meadows
Tennessee
Maria Campbell
Providence
John Meadows
Beaumont
U.S
Campbell
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State Supreme Court
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Brown
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PSC
Attorney General's Office Consumer Advocate
Augusta
D.B. Burkhart
Karen Marie Sawyers
Shamrock Market
Pearline P. Greenwood
Shanks
Eugenia L. Judy
Burkhart
Barbara Hawkins
The
Daily Telegraph
Sion
Mercer County
Dyer
Fred Brown
Lisa Pennington
Lisa Shinault
Bluefield Y Center
YMCA
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