Rural school renovation begins in August
Taylor County will renovate four rural grade schools Pruntytown Hepizabh Knottsville and Haymond with a $715000 project. Final designs call for self contained electric heating units with bids due in 30 days and contracts possible in late August followed by about four months of construction.
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Billbyrd
Grafton
Taylor County
Charleston
Pruntytown
Hepizabh
Knottsville
Haymond
Gandee
Gandee, Thomas and Sprouse
Statewide reorganizations take effect as 1977 laws pass
Charleston West Virginia AP Five Rockefeller administration reorganization bills are among 70 acts approved by the 1977 legislature and set to take effect in a nine day span starting today. A July 1 group includes salary raises for teachers and school service workers and boosts for top state officials, among potentially the largest in one batch. Forty four other bills activate from today through July 8. Most acts take effect 90 days after passage unless a two thirds vote changes that date. A key 90 day bill revises coal mine health and safety law with an July 8 date signaling a shift from prior state mine safety rules.
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Charleston
W. Va
Board of
Coal Mine Health and Safety
Walter N. Miller
State Mines Department
Jay Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Department of Health
N. H. Dyer
Health
Department of Corrections
Office of
Public Institutions
Stewart Werner
Corrections
Rockefeller presses for vast road funding and reforms
Gov. Jay Rockefeller warned that hundreds of millions more than the upcoming 81.2 million are needed to fix West Virginia secondary roads, signaling possible tax considerations. He cited a broad reorganization: a new Health Department, a Department of Corrections, and an Office of Economic and Community Development, with timelines and appointments on a wide slate of state government changes.
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Charleston
W.va
Jay Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Teachers Retirement Fund
L. Dean Blake II
Strip mine bill nears final compromise in Congress
Conferees near finishing a strip mining bill affecting about 60 percent of US coal. President Carter expected to sign. Sunken details include exemptions for small Appalachian operators until January 1979 and allowance to leave flat bench land for public uses. debate remains on permitting highwalls.
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Washington
House
Senate
United States
Carter
Sen
Wendell Ford
D-Ky
Appalachia
Ford
Grafton youth jailed for sexual assault under juvenile court
A 17 year old from Taylor County received six months at the West Virginia Industrial School for Boys after being arrested April 16 by city police and charged with first degree sexual assault of a six year old girl. Judge Edward T. Luff presided. In Grafton residents buy 512 new city licenses costing $2 each with a grace period until August 1. Driving without a license within city limits after that date incurs a $30 fine and court costs. Morgantown reports West Virginia’s 208th traffic fatality, Douglas Crawford, 24, of Indianapolis, struck by a car near U S 48 and I 70. Grady Miller, 22, of Morgantown, named driver. no charges yet. Temperatures forecast sunny to partly cloudy with showers tonight and Friday. Highs in the 80s, lows in the 60s. 20 percent rain today, 80 percent tonight, 60 percent Friday.
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Grafton
Taylor County
West Virginia
Morgantown
Indiana
U.S. 48
Here
Douglas Crawford
Indianapolis
Grady Miller
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