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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 2000
Page
2
Bluefield's 1999 Census figure shows a slight decline to 12,361 from 12,756 after the 1990 census. City Manager Ron Crabtree notes the drop is modest and stresses population affects grants and funding for streetscape, schools, and libraries, with 2000 figures anticipated by year end.
Federal officials allocate about 13.32 million for five Southwest Virginia areas in fiscal 2001 with $11.5 million directed to the Grundy flood proofing plan in Buchanan County. The project includes a four-lane U S Route 460 through Grundy and relocation of district activity to widen redevelopment land.
Ground broke Oct 20 for the John Nash Boulevard interchange of the King Coal Highway a key West Virginia corridor. The project links I 73 74 from Michigan to Myrtle Beach and runs from Bluefield to Williamson crossing Wayne Mercer McDowell Mingo and Wyoming counties with interchanges already finished in Crumb and Prichard. West Virginia cost estimates run about 2 billion with right of way may raise total to 2.2 billion. The Coalfields Expressway runs Beckley to Pound Virginia via Mullins Pineville War Bradshaw Paynesville Grundy and Buchanan Dickenson and Wise counties finishing at Pound where it meets Route 23 toward Johnson City. West Virginia portion priced at 854 million, total could reach 1.2 billion with acquisitions.
Three warrants have been issued for Athens man Howard L. Gunn in a October 19 crash that killed three local people. Gunn, 34, drove on Route 20, collided head on with a car driven by Gloria Duncan, 58, of Princeton. Duncan and her mother Mary Faye Blankenship, 83, died after hospital treatment. husband Drexel Duncan, 64, died on arrival. Gunn was treated at Bluefield Regional Medical Center then transferred to Charleston Area Medical Center. He faces three felony counts of driving under the influence causing death and three misdemeanors for control and right-of-way failures. Warrants issued by Mercer County Magistrate's Office. not yet served.
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