Justices expand clean air review in major ruling
The Supreme Court will decide if anti-pollution rules must weigh compliance costs along with health effects in a nationwide clean-air dispute. Environmentalists warn a shift could weaken public health protections while industry allies say it clarifies economic considerations. Lower courts since 1980 had barred EPA from factoring costs into standards.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Vickie Patton
Environmental Defense
Environmental Protection Agency
McDowell County to get three new schools by 2004
Charles Owens of the Daily Telegraph reports school officials have completed a design and construction plan for three proposed McDowell County schools. A relocation contract for Saeger High School with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is being finalized. Engineering work should begin this fall with completion aimed for August 2004.
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Welch
McDowell County
Saeger
U.S Army Corps of Engineers
Ing
Kenneth Roberts
Saeger High School
PCH financials improve after losses in 2000 year
Princeton Community Hospital reports five consecutive months of net operational earnings despite the Balanced Budget Act impact. March earnings total 118,729 and year-to-date loss from operations narrows to 1,640,665 after earlier 2.6 million deficit. Directors discuss Bluefield Regional Medical Center cardiac center proposal, awaiting reply.
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Princeton
Princeton Community Hospital
PCH
Nelson Montgomery
Financial Services
March Financials
Bluefield Regional Medical Center
Charles Mathena
Bluefield
Regional Medical Center
Mathena
Bluefield High Holds Day at the Park Activities
Bluefield High School hosted a Day at the Park on Tuesday with students Angela Wingler Nikki Clayton and other classmates riding the Lotto Park train while David Thompson spiked a volleyball. Staff photographer John Nelsor documented the event.
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Bluefield High School
Angela Wingler
Nikki Clayton
Bluefield High
David Thompson
John Nelsor
Wavebot 2000 Flies High In Virginia School Club
In Grundy Virginia a class of 22 students and their teacher built the Wavebot 2000 a remote controlled robot that resembles a Bobcat bulldozer They entered the FIRST robotics style competition For Inspiration and Recognition in Science Technology and won national attention and a visit from a NASA astronaut led by Amanda Blankenship
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Grundy
Virginia
NASA
Grundy High School
Buchanan County
Cloud Nine
Amanda Blankenship
Bluefield Morgantown Honored in New Retirement Designation
State officials named Bluefield and Morgantown among the first retirement communities to receive an official designation for retirement living. The ceremony, led by Gov. Cecil Underwood, highlighted Mercer and surrounding counties joint Four Seasons Retirement Taskforce efforts.
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Morgantown
Charleston
America
Cecil Underwood
Mercer County
Tazewell County
Bob Jones
West Virginia
Joint County Group
Four Seasons County Retirement Taskforce
Creative Retirement Center
Bluefield State College
Jones
Beckley
Raleigh County
Retirement Taskforce
Frank Barnes
Jim Worsham
Annette Osborne
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Danny Meadows
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McDowell
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Jim Jacobs
Warren Casey
Days Inn
Wytheville
Jesse James
Jesse Woodson James
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