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Two schools or three? Funding key issue: Supervisors hear construction funds plea, eye tax rates
When supervisors meet tonight, a vote on the county’s property tax rates will be on its agenda. Unless a board member makes a different suggestion when the time comes to vote, supervisors appear t...
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Among troops currently celebrating Girl Scout Week are members of Stephanie Dean s Cadette Troop No. 377, pictured on their trip to Atlanta, Ga., last summer. From left, first row, are Olivia Barton, Sydney Skinner, Brooke Hubbard and Laura Dean; second row, Bonnie Hamilton, Sierra Warren, Samantha Pettry, Rebecca Stallard and Kiersten Lane. Girl Scouts celebrate March 12 milestone
Friday, March 12 marks the staging of Girl Scout Birthday celebrations in troops around the country. On that date in 1912, founder Juliette Gordon Low officially registered the organization’...
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Post Scripts March 11, 2010
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Correction on candidate list. Last week's Postscript listing candidates in upcoming town council elections contained an incorrect name and left off a name. Wise County Registrar Tom Chester repor...
Power plant workers to peak at 1,600 soon
by JODI DEAL - Staff Writer
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WISE — Dominion Virginia Power’s Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center in St. Paul is 58 percent complete, according to Mark Mitchell, Dominion’s director of fossil and hydro projects. Mitchell was o...
Collins: Duff murder investigation continues
by IDA HOLYFIELD - Editor
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More than 23 years after 85-year old Odie Duff was found stabbed to death in the bedroom of his Wood Avenue home, his hands and feet bound and his body wrapped in a blanket, officials are still inv...
Special meeting targets school options
by JODI DEAL • Staff Writer
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Superintendent Jeff Perry told the school board that as soon as the county board of supervisors approves the sale of bonds to build new high schools, a gymnasium should be built at Appalachia Elem...
Gap in final stages of preparing for grant
by IDA HOLYFIELD • Editor
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BIG STONE GAP — Big Stone Gap officials on Tuesday received word that the town has cleared one of its biggest hurtles connected to signing the final contract on a $700,000 Community Development Blo...
Appy moves forward on ATV use
by IDA HOLYFIELD • Editor
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APPALACHIA — While there are differing opinions on when, and if, the town can implement its ordinance permitting the operation of all-terrain and off-road vehicles within the corporate limits, coun...
Post Scripts for March 4, 2010
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Candidate list. Seven candidates filed by the Tuesday deadline for upcoming town council elections in Appalachia and Big Stone Gap. According to Wise County Registrar Tom Chester's office, Roy Mu...