County board weighs half million loan for high school remodel
Warren supervisors debate funding a 5.8 million school project with a half million short term loan. Wetzel projects a 27000 deficit if remodeling proceeds without loan. Malta urges tax structure review and possible revenue measures to offset county costs. Vote on Malta motions ends with mixed result. tax review passes unanimously.
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Wilson Burke
Malta
Baggarly
Marlow
Mrs. Malta
Wetzel
Burke
Garris Cleared of Arson in Winchester Circuit Court
Franklin Garris Jr. was found innocent of arson after a second trial. A March trial ended with no verdict, but Judge Duncan Gibb struck the state's evidence and the jury returned an innocent verdict. In a separate Winchester General District Court session William Wells was found innocent of failure to appear in assault and battery and assault with a vehicle charges.
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Winchester
Franklin Garris Jr
Garris
Duncan Gibb
William Wells
Fayetteville, N.C
Frederick County
Wells
General District Court
Objection to Virginia Ave zoning withdrawn at Berryville meeting
Kathleen Devereux reports that Mrs. Charles Jackson withdrew an objection to the R-2 zoning description in Berryville. The planning commission discussed minor corrections and omissions in the new ordinances while the revised rules head to the town council for Sept. 9 discussion and vote.
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Star
Berryville
Virginia Ave
Charles Jackson
R-2
Town Planning Commission
Planning Commission
Boy Scout Camp Rock Enon Ends Summer Season
Camp Rock Enon in western Frederick County closes for the season after a week of activities for about 1,200 scouts from the Shenandoah Area Council. The site, once Rock Enon Springs Hotel, hosts trout fishing, backpacking and canoeing, with a Friday 7 p.m. used equipment sale to follow.
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Rock Enon
Boy Scout Camp
George M. Stoddart
Gore
Camp Rock Enon
Frederick County
Shenandoah Area Council
BSA
Rock Enon Springs
Frederick Youth Fair Opens Monday With Pageant and Pig Scramble
The Frederick County Youth Fair begins Monday at 7 p.m. with opening remarks by S. Roger Koontz. State FFA president Doug Rinker, a Winchester native, will speak. A 7:30 p.m. beauty pageant features about 15 contestants. a Tots Greased Pig Scramble closes the evening at 9 p.m. Eight and under participants must register by 6 p.m. Monday.
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Frederick County
Doug Rinker
Future Farmers of America
Rinker
James Wood High School
VPI & SU
Winchester
Fredericksburg
Fair Registration Desk
Senate to Name James Schlesinger Energy Secretary
The Senate moves to confirm White House energy adviser James R. Schlesinger as head of the new Department of Energy after congressional approval of the energy bill. Carter intends to nominate him. confirmation hearings begin with expected broad support. House and Senate votes finalized the package this week.
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Senate
Washington
Department of Energy
White House
James R. Schlesinger
Schlesinger
Senate Energy Committee
Department of Transportation
Defense Department
CIA
Atomic Energy Commission
Carter
Congress
Cemans Samange
Energy Department
House
Weather forecast and rainfall figures update
Northern Valley and Virginia see variable cloudiness with possible thunderstorms tonight and Thursday highs in the upper 80s to near 90. Extended outlook through Sunday shows warm humid conditions with scattered thundershowers and mid 80s to low 90s highs. Historical rainfall data from 1972 to 1977 appear with monthly averages and records, noting a peak annual total of 53.02 inches in 1972 and a low of 17.15 inches in a prior 62-year span.
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Pacific Coast
Great Lakes
Plains
Eastern
Gulf
mid-Atlantic
New England
Northern Valley
Virginia
Old Telephone Book Leaves Spratley Number Out
William Albert Spratley Jr in Columbus says Ohio Bell omitted his home number from new directories after he moved two days before the May 26 deadline. The state advocate calls the omission an oversight and pursues the issue as a consumer matter.
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Columbus
Ohio
William Albert Spratley Jr
Spratley
Ohio Bell
Alarm at Warren Memorial Hospital No Fire In Building
Assistant Fire Chief Durston McIntosh said the hospital alarm triggered yesterday afternoon when telephone workers cut a cable during ongoing construction. Firemen also responded to a Bentonville brush fire but were recalled before arrival as South Warren crews had it under control.
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Front Royal
Warren Memorial Hospital
Durston McIntosh
McIntosh
Bentonville
South Warren
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Winchester General District Court
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Callus
Amherst Street
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Chester
Slapinski
South Africa
Lord Baden Powell
America
Frederick
S. Roger Koontz
Frederick County Board of Supervisors
Roger Koontz
Members, Inc
F.O.P
Secretary
New York
Ald Hote
City of Winchester Fire Rescue
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Middletown Rescue
Clarke County Fire
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