Giles County real estate tax rate raised to 4.80 per 100
Giles County Board of Supervisors voted 2-1 to raise the real estate tax from 4.45 to 4.80 per 100 of assessed value as part of a 1.19 million dollar budget for the coming year. The meeting focused on taxes with protests mainly over a proposed utility tax intended to fund a county landfill and a 3,000 dollar cut to the health department budget.
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Dave Pedneau
Giles County
Board of Supervisors
Jack Smith
Byron Skeens
Aubrey Dodson
Dodson
New River Industrial Commission
C. J. Neely
Narrows
Skeens
Giles County Health Department
Dodson and Smith
Mary Long
Giles Health Service
Richard Thayer
Virginia Department of Health
Richmond
Virginia
Thayer
Ralph Lewis
Miami Beach gay rights rally follows court strike on impersonation laws
A U S District Court voided two Miami Beach ordinances banning female impersonation as vague and discriminatory. Activists cheered bring out the gowns while police fear arrests at national conventions. Lawyers said no immediate appeal planned.
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Miami, Fla
Miami Beach
U.S. District Court
William O. Mehrtens
Lamont
Rocky Pomerance
Woman forfeits bond in shoplifting case
Deborah Harrison a 20 year old Welch woman forfeited 50 bond by failing to appear on a shoplifting charge before City Judge John McGhee Wednesday in Bluefield. She allegedly stole 20 worth of merchandise from Grants Department Store in the Bluefield Plaza Shopping Center Tuesday.
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Deborah Harrison
John McGhee
Bluefield
Grant’s
Bluefield Plaza
Mine Training Prep Courses Complete at Bluefield State College
Bluefield State College finished an eleven week Preparation for Mine Training program funded by a Federal Bureau of Mines grant. The graduation held June 22 recognized 43 participants who earned two college credits. future courses will offer ninety six hours for the mine foreman's exam starting July 11 and October 16 at Wyoming County Vocational School.
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Bluefield State College
Ralph Ratliff
Federal Bureau of Mines
James Akers
Walter Barrett
Ratliff
Bluefeld State College
Wyoming County
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National Coalition of Gay Organizations
Robert Barry
Gay Activist Alliance of Miami
Bruce Rogen
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Lamont and
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Rogow
Pomerance
New Cockian
Garrick Utley
NBC News
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NBC
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Shane Randall
WHIL
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BSC
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Charles Brown
Ethelbert Charles
Jack R. Comer
Alan F. Croyle
Joseph Davidson
Ralph B. Dyson
Dewey P. Fowler
James Franklin
Kenneth Gillespie
James Gentry
Rondie Hicks
Carl E. Horton
Sherman L. Hicks
James Hollyfield
Frederick Jordan
Charlie L. Large
Barry M. Lilly
Harless Martin
James B. Lawson
Gerald Milom
James
R. Mullens
Johnny D. Nelson
Allen Powers
Ward A. Riggs
Edgar Ruble
Stephen Ruble
Bernard Scott
Jimmy Scott
McKinley Smith
Jeffery Thompson
Robert Thorne
Charles Tickle
Micheal Slusher
Kermit Tolliver
Clinton H. Tyree
Garland Vaughn
Clifford A. White
Ronald E. Whitt
David R. Wright
Robert L. Wylan
Grady Whitsom
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