County approves 2000 2001 budget with tax plan vote pending
County supervisors adopt a 77.9 million dollar operating budget for 2000 2001 and propose a new 0.10 daily electricity tax plus a 20 percent utility levy with caps. Voters would decide the food tax in a November referendum while a 50 000 revenue boost from a transient occupancy tax targets tourism. Some residents oppose both the decal and electricity tax while business owners warn of impacts on growth and fairness.
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Southern District
Jimmy Durham
Durham
Robert Adair
Tazewell
Adair
Bob Tatum
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Claypool Hill
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Restaurateur Evans backs WV college access effort
Bob Evans and his wife Jewell donated 150000 dollars to Governor Cecil Underwood for a West Virginia Access Center to Higher Education at Bluefield State College. The endowment will be matched with state funds to boost the college-going rate in the state, mirroring a similar Ohio program that raised rates 34 percent. Evans cited poverty and isolation as barriers to college and urged continued support.
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Wyoming County
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Stanley Evans
Rio Grande College
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Pow-Wow Community Center
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Cecil Underwood
West Virginia
Underwood
Bluefield State College
Alpeca Bottom
Ohio Appalachian Center For Higher Education
Rockefeller Comments on Energy Policy and West Virginia Mining
Rockefeller says price gouging risks exist with fuels and urges serious use of alternatives. He favors methanol over ethanol for environmental reasons, notes coal power emissions and mountaintop mining balance in West Virginia, and backs continued coal use unless new solutions emerge. He praises Byrd Rahall on I 73/74 funding, cites Bluefield interchange set for October groundbreaking, and predicts Gore will win the presidency with WV support despite environmental stances.
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Midwest
EPA
Northeast
West Virginia
Rockefeller
West
Gore
Patriot star Wadkins recalls film gear swap and war insights
The Princeton native says The Patriot shows hardships of the war and cruel British officers. He traded an old Harper's Ferry musket for a rifle used in the film and plans to see the premiere in Norfolk, Virginia, then attend a Mercer County viewing when possible. The Columbia Pictures release, by Centropolis Entertainment and Mutual, centers on a pacifist South Carolina farmer who becomes a warrior.
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New Jersey
Princeton
Wadkins
Norfolk
Mercer County
Columbia Pictures
Centropolis Entertainment
Mutual Film Company
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Columbia
Bluefield Address and Contact Line
The listing provides a street address 713 S College Ave in Bluefield Virginia along with a local phone contact 540 322 3055 for inquiries.
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S. College Ave
Bluefield
Scams mitigation effort targets senior victims in WV
The attorney general's office in cooperation with AARP and law enforcement ran a scam awareness blitz at the Mountaineer Conference Center in Beckley. About 150 volunteers called Raleigh and surrounding counties to warn residents about telemarketing fraud targeting seniors. Officials say the program has returned roughly $10 million to victims and aims to prevent scams rather than just remedy them.
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American Association of Retired People
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McGraw
Mountaineer Conference Center
Harper Road
Beckley
Raleigh
Fayette
Wyoming
Kanawha
Mercer
Boone
Steven Mehlman
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