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Newspaper
Register Herald
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1998
Page
12
Thursday night mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and storms and mid 60s lows. Friday and Saturday partly cloudy with highs near 80. Sunday partly cloudy with a chance of showers and cooler lows around 55 to 60. Stream conditions for Bluestone, Summersville, and R D Bailey lakes listed.
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Gov. Edward T. Schafer hailed the signing as vital for rural linking and farm to market roads while critics deride the measure as pork laden and election year plums. The law increases spending, earmarks billions for pet projects, and vowed to spend gas tax money only on highways and mass transit with projected safety gains and job creation.
Stover aims to start June 19 on a 15 to 18 hour daily trek from Mullens to Washington with a 40 pound pack. He hopes meetings with Sen. Rockefeller and Rep. Rahall and a Department of Energy contact, walking through towns, talking to residents, and calling home each night. He recalls a 1980 Rainbow murder encounter and may ride the New River Gorge Bridge if needed.
A Daniels woman in her 30s was robbed of her purse Tuesday morning near the Beckley Post Office on North Kanawha Street. The white male suspect, 28 to 33, 5 foot 7, stocky, with reddish-brown hair and a beard, fled toward Wickham Avenue after pressing a thing to her side. Police seek tips, call 256 1708 or Crime Stoppers at 255 7867.
U S Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater designated the 98 mile Coal Heritage Trail as a National Scenic Byway on Tuesday making it eligible for part of the 148 million set aside for scenic byways in the new transportation bill Rep Nick Rahall said the Trail will serve as the backbone of regional heritage tourism and economic development Beckley Welch Bramwell and Bluefield are along the route and the trail is now one of 53 scenic byways nationwide.
At the Richwood city council meeting Rose announced a $30,000 grant from Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention for Richwood Junior High School to curb violence and mentor students. The council plans a committee to review juvenile rebellion, a mural project proceeds, and the pool may reopen pending tests. A Women’s Health Month effort will rotate staff for breast and cervical education. May ending balance was 16145.92 with expenditures of 10685.90.
Mining engineers argue valley fills do not impound water but channel it through the fill to streams below. They contend the Buffalo Creek dam was not engineered, but coal waste piled up haphazardly. Bill Raney of the West Virginia Coal Association cites twenty years of valley fills with no failures.
General Manager Brenda McNutt announced on Tuesday that TCI will add ESPN2 to its digital lineup in Beckley and Princeton. The service will cost $10 per month and should be available by mid July. Viewers are advised to add the service now to have a box ready when ESPN2 comes online.
A federal grand jury in Charleston indicted Parley Ray Nicely of Craigsville on felon in possession of a firearm. Nicely, 33, faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine with three years’ supervised release if convicted. He previously was convicted in 1990 of forgery in the Nicholas County Circuit Court. prosecutors say he possessed a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol in September 1996.
Greenbrier County Commissioners learned from Deputy Clerk Joyce Crane that all departments will finish fiscal year 1998 in the black. The E-911 center in Maxwelton helped cover dispatcher salaries, with funds reallocated to keep line items balanced. Final bills total about $98,897 with three weeks remaining.
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