LOCA Water outage and Flea Market events in Grafton
Local notes report a noon resumption of Thornton area water service after a cement fix to a broken line. Grafton hosts a Flea Market and Sidewalk Sales on Main Street with about ten exhibitors and prize drawings, run by the Downtown Grafton Area Retail Merchants Association. City officials announce a $604,000 Economic Development Agency grant with plans due by July 14 and a shifted approach to a water plant project. Additionally, a deer collision caused $500 damage to an Albright's youth’s car near Hudson, and a 41-student Quebec trip by Grafton High School students returns. Grafton Fire Chief notes pending fire investigation results. A Philippi area single-vehicle crash injures a 17-year-old Belington youth in good condition, with about $600 damage to the vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton
Main Street
Grafton Area
Retail Merchants Association
Paul Buckwalter
Buckwalter
Economic Development Agency
C. Lowell Mason
Philippi
Belington
U.S. 119
Broaddus Hospital
Barbour County
Grafton faces water supply gap with aging plant
Grafton relies on a 70 year old water plant with parts failing and storage tanks sometimes empty. The city seeks EDA funds to upgrade with pumps and a gravity fed storage tank while enforcing a moratorium on new lines to avoid outages that could halt growth and force water hauling by large users.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluemont Cemetery Hill
City Hospital
Blueville
Teets
Economic Development Administration
EDA
Grafton
Uranium cartel probe eyed by U S House panel
The Justice Department may be asked to probe Gulf Oil Corp for possible antitrust violations over joining an international uranium price fixing cartel. Representative John Moss says the committee may hand evidence to prosecutors despite Gulf’s denials as hearings continue with Gulf officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Justice Department
Gulf Oil Corp
U.S
House
Gulf
John Moss
D-Call
Commerce Investigations Subcommittee
Moss
Wernher von Braun dies after long cancer battle
Wernher von Braun, the German born rocket pioneer who helped the United States reach the moon, died Thursday at Alexandria Hospital after a long cancer struggle. He was 65 and had worked at Fairchild Industries since 1972 while planning a permanent archive for the Marshall Space Flight Center. He helped design the V-2 for Germany and led U.S. Jupiter C, Saturn I and Saturn V programs that enabled manned spaceflight and moon landings. He immigrated to the United States in 1945, became a citizen in 1955, and his team grew to about 4,000 engineers and technicians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wernher von Braun
United States
von Braun
Alexandria Hospital
Virginia
Fairchild Industries
Fairchild
Reading
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville
Ala
Adolf Hitler
U.S. Army
Russsia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sputnik
Eisenhower
Vanguard
America
U.S
Ft. Bliss
Tex
Germany
Army
Redstone Arsenal
Also Mentioned on This Page
West Virginia
Loca
Thornton
Hudson
Albright
Albert L. Johnson
Preston County Sheriff's Deputies
Rt. 15
Canada
Grafton High
Quebec
Janine Manley
Grafton Banking and Trust
Bill Workman
Philangelo
Harold Teets
Tygart
Wilford Street
Fource Glass
Fource
P Angelo
Unranium Cartel
L.T. Gregg
Gulf Minerals Canada Ltd
Gregg
Phil Angelo
Ino
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!