Local GM workers form van pool to save money and fuel
Elyria workers including Larry Maiden and three colleagues from Fisher Guide now ride in a Chrysler Van Pool Services van to a GM plant in Ontario, saving about 1.75 dollars daily. The state subsidies 100 dollars of Maiden’s rental, with insurance and maintenance covered. nine workers share a 15 seat van for second shift arrivals.
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Tom Fesler
Larry Kline
Mark Bailey
Fisher Guide
Ontario
Ohio
Maiden
Chrysler Corp
van Pool Services Inc
Firelands Boy Scout Camp
High School FBLA Leaders Plan for Real World Career Drive
Danny Milgram and two classmates rehearse a business plan in a San Jose home for a Future Business Leaders of America competition in Washington. They advise training managers, voluntary resignations, strict growth plans, and extended supplier pay periods while pursuing nationals. They emphasize networking, long hours, and early career pressure while aiming at Stanford or Yale.
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Maya Suryaraman
Knight-Ridder
San Josh
Calif
Danny Milgram
San Jose
David Lee
John Shen
Washington, D.C
Future Business Leaders of America
Milgram
FBLA
Lynbrook High School
Donald Trump
Lynbrook
Gene Longinetti
Longinetti
Camille Tovar
Lee
Stanford
Yale
Sicon Valley
Entrepreneurs Club
John O. Wilson
Bank of America
San Francisco
Vanishing coal towns as underground yield rises in Appalachia
Gary West Virginia resident Anne Vineyard plans to move as her town dies from the coal downturn despite rising underground production. Marshall University professor Mack Gillenwater notes the broader pattern in Crumpler and surrounding communities as towns lose schools, shops, and services once tied to coal, with Alpheus plant highlighted as a landmark turning point.
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Algoma
Worth
Ashland
McDowell
Crumpler
Mack Gillenwater
Marshall University
McDowell County
Gary
Alpheus
Housing boom replaces orchards along the Potomac in West Virginia
In West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle the Potomac and Shenandoah's farmland gives way to $130,000 to $180,000 Duchess Estates homes on 160 acres. John Cushna, once an orchardist, now builds houses to survive, amid a regional shift drawing commuters from nearby Maryland and Virginia. The drought and frosts hammering orchards add urgency to developers.
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Martinsburg
W.va
John Cushna
Potomac River
Potomac
Shenandoah Rivers
West Virginia
Panhandle
Washington, D.C
Virginia
Maryland
Cushway 42
Duchess Estates
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Elyria
Larry Maiden
Mansfield
United Auto Workers Hall
Lowell Street
VanOhio
Trump
Milgram, Shen and
Tovar
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo
Fela
Mimi Aye
Kirk Hanson
Stanford University
Graduate School of Business
Bellarmine Prep
Hanson
West Virginia Hills
Herman Martin
Slab Fork
Gary, W.va
Anne Vineyard
Vineyard
Appalachian
Tamssy Oa
Bath Feeman
John Cushwa
Cushwa
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