Emergency supplies flown to Tangier Island by Virginia Guard
Emergency food and medical aid reached Tangier Island by helicopter as the island, cut off by a frozen waterway, received more than a ton of milk bread meat and other essentials. Navy doctors treated residents including an islander in need of medical care. Mayor Robert Thorne called the aid a necessity.
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Tangier
Chesapeake Bay Island
Virginia Army National Guard
Tangier Island
Robert Thorne
Richmond
Hospital parking garage plan stirs neighborhood concerns
Last night a City Parking Authority meeting on a Stewart Street site faced strong neighborhood opposition to a proposed hospital parking garage. Residents questioned traffic, access for large vehicles, and potential declines in property values while hospital officials urged benefits of safer, expanded parking for night shifts.
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Kater
John Hawse
Richard Martin
Martin
Stewart St
Stonewall
Cork St
Carl Napps
Virginia General Assembly Highlights Thursday
Highlights from Richmond show the Senate Transportation Committee backing a bid threshold over 100000 for highway projects. Other items include a pro rata license tag refund bill, election of 28 judges led by Susan Bundy, high school voter registration drive proposal, and shifting the Aeronautics division to the Office of Transportation. House and Senate leaders set next Monday as the bill deadline. The House Education Committee killed a rehiring notice delay and cigarette tax proposals seek to raise the tax to five cents a pack, estimated to generate 17.6 million dollars annually.
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Richmond
Virginia General Assembly
Senate Transportation Committee
State Highway Department
Senate
General Assembly
Susan Bundy
Lebanon
Russell County
Aeronautics
State Corporation Commission
Office of Transportation
House
House Education Committee
Virginia School Boards Association
Odor of Gas Reported at Shenandoah Bank
Firemen were summoned to the Shenandoah Valley National Bank at Loudoun and Piccadilly Streets at 10 55 AM for a gas odor in the remodel basement. They could not identify a source though the smell resembled naphtha or cleaning fluid. Smoke ejectors were placed in the basement but no evacuation occurred.
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Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Loudoun
Piccadilly Sts
George Froom
Weather Outlook and Rainfall Totals From Historical Almanac
The forecast shows cloudy breezy tomorrow with mid teens overnight and highs around 30. Saturday brings partial clouds and high teens to mid 20s with mountain flurries and fair elsewhere. Extended cold expected Sunday to Tuesday with upper 20s to mid 30s days and teens to near zero nights. January rainfall totals noted at 90 inches for 1977, with long term averages and historic peaks listed.
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Virginia
Front Royal Fire Department Battles Two Minor Blazes
Two minor fires were reported in Front Royal yesterday afternoon and evening. A trailer on Rt 55 East owned by Richard Whitlock had a fusebox short, burning out the box but not the structure. Later a chimney fire at the Bowman residence on Rt 619 was put out by Rivermont Fire Department.
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Front Royal
Durston McIntosh
Richard Whitlock
McIntosh
Wines Trailer Court
Rt. 55
Bowman
Rt. 619
Rivermont
Two Thefts Reported as City Investigates
Police are probing two thefts from residences this week one case involved a freezer full of meat valued at 120 dollars taken Wednesday night. The other theft saw 200 dollars stolen from the Colonial Inn on Cork Street between Wednesday night and yesterday morning. A vehicle stolen in Altoona Pennsylvania was recovered in Nichols parking lot but no arrests were made.
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Cork St
Altoona
Nichols
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