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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 2002
Page
1
PRINCETON The Princeton Public Library hosts a Seuss birthday family program today from 1 30 to 2 30 p m. Readings of Green Eggs and Ham Daisy-Head Mayzie and King Louie Catz plus other Dr Seuss stories offered for children and families.
Panisheburg SG Suscenss and guest readers joined Read Across America and the West Virginia Education Association to honor Dr Seuss 98th birthday by visiting local schools and reading his classics. WVEA President Tom Lange notes a year round literacy crusade and the event aims to excite kids about reading. Area students won the WVEA bookmark contest for originality and theme consistency as part of Read Across America.
Mercer Summers water line stalls as CSX seeks an exorbitant sum to cross railroad right of way. Lawmakers call the price predatory and threaten regulation or legislation. Nick Rahall, representing WV, denounces the toll as blackmail for the project to bring Bluestone Lake water to the counties.
Princeton West Virginia's workers' compensation rate is estimated as seven times higher than Virginia's. George Santon, Princeton Rotary Club speaker and Mercer County Chamber executive, questioned lawmakers and noted the governor's 2002 Year of Economic Development rhetoric amid labor-oriented political action committees.
The Celtic bluegrass group Alathea plays at Brick Street Cafe in Princeton at 7 p m. Admission is free. The venue is inside Corner Stone Family Church across from Douglas Sporting Goods.
At the Charleston Capitol protesters from the United Mine Workers of America and supporters urged lawmakers to preserve current weight limits and boost enforcement while miners gathered inside Gov. Wise's office. Outside, coal truck drivers circled the Capitol, honking and driving through stop lights as the session neared its end.
Claudia Via in Elkhorn says a two ton four foot high section of a large concrete drainage culvert, washed about 1000 feet from McDowell County floodwaters, sits behind her home for seven months. She has pleaded with county and state officials to remove it but finds no action.
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