Elks Buy Bluefield Country Club in Quick Vote
Bluefield Country Club, established 75 years, voted to sell to Bluefield Elks Lodge No. 269 at a special meeting attended by about 100 stockholders. The deal, valued around $1 million by unconfirmed reports, will transfer ownership at the start of next year and keep club activities ongoing.
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Tazewell County Board rescinds AEP line support motion
The Tazewell County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to rescind an April 1995 motion backing the American Electric Power 765kV transmission line as routed through West Virginia and the New River Valley, not Tazewell. The board also urged SCC to avoid routes through the county without new public hearings.
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Jimmy Jones
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Jerry Wood
Bluefield
Frank Barnes
MCEOC eyes San itarium for downtown economic boost
Mercer County Economic Opportunity Corpora tion aims to transform the eight story old Bluefield Sanitarium Clinic known as the Peery Building into a three phase transitional housing project. First phase cost about 1 million includes day care and admin space. Plan calls for low income student housing and veterans housing in later phases funded by state programs. Local officials and Main Street Bluefield attended a public meeting to review scope and potential downtown impact.
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Sam Sink
Star Builders
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Sink
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Bluefield State College
Hubbard
West Virginia Housing Development Fund
Office of Economic Opportunity
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Main Street Bluefield
McNIC eyes 100 million power plant in Buchanan County
MCNIC plans a methane gas powered plant in Buchanan County costing 100 to 150 million dollars. The project aims to tap coal bed methane as a new energy use, yielding a major economic opportunity for the county amid its coal driven economy. Stewart Lawrence of MCN Investment Corporation outlines the proposal’s goal and scope.
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Buchanan County
Lawrence
Wal-Mart project begins as Pearisburg site clears ground
Dirt moving starts at Pearisburg's 110000 square foot Super Wal-Mart site after a land disturbance permit was issued to United Construction of Dillwyn. Town officials expect full completion by late 1998 with 20000 extra retail space and three future parcels. Site work continues through December.
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Dillwyn, Va
Kenneth Wittum
Mason Farm
Wal-Mart
Pearlsburg
Vittum
Polite bank robber surrenders after seven heists in St Louis
A man believed to be the polite bank robber who allowed others to go ahead in line during seven St Louis area heists surrendered to police without resistance. Joseph F. Rivenas, 38, of Brea California, was arrested Monday while playing poker at a riverside casino after casino security spotted him from bank surveillance photos.
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