Charleston Gazette back issues from September 2000:
Regatta 2000
Sep 03, 2000; ... Sunday Gazette-Mail No, she's a real bride: Jan Stultz, a Charleston native, and JimD'Arcy of San Francisco celebrated their marriage ...
Costumed revelers take to the streets
Sep 03, 2000; ... tara@wvgazette.com Rob Allen didn't even wait to towel off. He strode on strong legsup the steps from the Kanawha River, water streaming from his body,and made a beeline for his wife, Amy. He picked up his sleeping babyson and held him. "It's been a good day," he said. Allen ...
Big cities carrying South's economy: ; Report urges more attention to areas that fuel job growth
Sep 03, 2000; ... RALEIGH, N.C. - The South is adding jobs at a record pace, butits economy is increasingly dependent on a few "new economy" cities,a nonprofit research group says in a new "State of the South"report. MDC Inc., based in Chapel Hill, traditionally has been anadvocate for rural areas and ...
Electoral race swinging Gore's way: ; Vice president holds 201-179 edge ; election could hinge on Midwest states
Sep 03, 2000; ... WASHINGTON - Democrat Al Gore has come from behind to build aslight edge over Republican George W. Bush in the race for stateelectoral votes, but is still short of the total needed to win thepresidency, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. Fourteen states plus the District ...
A calming influence: ; Stewart looks to bring stability back to superintendent's office
Sep 03, 2000; ... ericeyre@wvgazette.com The secret is out: The morning after this month's state schoolboard meeting in Clay County, schools Superintendent David Stewartwill drive 377 miles with his 14-year-old daughter, Betsy, and herbest friend to a stadium in Hershey, Pa., the chocolate capital ...
'Smoker's lung' drug showing promise: ; Spiriva could be approved by 2002
Sep 03, 2000; ... FLORENCE, Italy - An experimental drug could make breathing mucheasier for millions of people suffering from "smoker's lung," newresearch suggests. In tests involving 500 people who had sufferedfrom chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for more than a decade,the drug appeared to be ...
Today's News
Sep 03, 2000 ... A school bus builder is warning that 6,000 of its school busesmay have defective brake systems, and as many as 300,000 othervehicles - primarily large commercial trucks - could also beaffected. The defect is in an anti-lock brake system manufacturedfrom March 1998 to last month, said ...
Ruling on Aryan Nations to allow punitive damages
Sep 03, 2000; ... COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - The Aryan Nations white supremacist groupwas negligent in the operation of its security force, a federaljudge has ruled, clearing the way for a jury to assess punitivedamages. The group appointed a security director who was known tobe unstable and dishonest and ...
Girl remains in coma after surgery on arm
Sep 03, 2000; ... They sat by their daughter's hospital bed Wednesday, unable tocomprehend how a routine surgical procedure has left their littlegirl clinging to life. Aniqa Shaon was supposed to undergo surgeryto mend a broken arm, yet something went terribly wrong at JamaicaHospital in Queens last ...
Fewer inserts in today's paper
Sep 03, 2000 ... There are fewer slick-paper national inserts containing couponsgood for discounts on food purchases in today's paper. The reason ...
Principal's office often going empty: ; Schools finding job tough to fill
Sep 03, 2000; ... As the academic year begins for the nation's 53 million students,a growing number of schools are rudderless, struggling to replace agraying corps of principals at a time when the pressure to raisetest scores and other new demands have made an already difficult joban increasingly ...
Bursting at the seams: ; New Jersey expected to be the first state to 'fill up'
Sep 03, 2000; ... PHILADELPHIA - New Jersey, already the most densely populatedstate, could be on course to reach the outer limits of developmentas early as the 2030s. Experts call the situation "built out,"meaning that there will be no new land available for construction iftrends continue and ...
Kropp rejects EPA, engineer report in issuing permit
Sep 03, 2000; ... pjnyden@wvgazette.com Office of Air Quality Director Edward "Skipp" Kropp issued a newpermit on Wednesday for an "air curtain incinerator" at a WoodCounty lumber plant. Kropp rejected recommendations to deny thepermit that came from his own agency's engineer John Legg, as wellas ...
Charleston should play bigger role in emerging economy, report says
Sep 03, 2000; ... Charleston must become a "stronger economic engine" to move WestVirginia toward the new economy that is emerging across the nation,says a study on Southern growth. The state also must continuebuilding on its proximity to the Washington, D.C., metropolitan areato develop tourism and ...
Charleston Sternwheel Regatta: ; Today
Sep 03, 2000 ... 8 a.m. Arrival of Steamer Delta Queen 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Anything That Floats Race 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ATF Skits Noon to 10 p.m. Petting zoo/pony rides, Magic Island Noon to 11 p.m. Balloon ride, Magic Island Noon to 11 p.m. H&H, ...
THE BATTLE FOR ELECTORAL VOTES - STATE BY STATE
Sep 03, 2000; ... Here's a look at the 50 states in the battle for electoral votesin the presidential campaign. List includes the number of electoralvotes in each state and an analysis based upon poll results andinterviews with more than 100 Democratic, Republican and independentanalysts. - ...
Fewer Americans have long-term political allegiance: ; Bailing out
Sep 03, 2000; ... WASHINGTON - When Americans choose either George W. Bush or AlGore this November, they will decide who will live in the WhiteHouse for the next four years. But in the new and difficultpolitical landscape of this new century, they likely will grant onlya short-term lease. Although both ...
Mercury found in Ill. homes
Sep 03, 2000; ... CHICAGO - The company that sells natural gas to people acrossmuch of northern Illinois plans to inspect as many as 200,000suburban Chicago homes for traces of mercury, having discovered itin 44 during a preliminary investigation. The company, Nicor Gas ofnearby Naperville, Ill., will ...
To students, only one uniform matters: jeans
Sep 03, 2000; ... It doesn't matter that the "uniform" Philadelphia public schoolstudents will be required to wear this month will be more like adress code - skirts, jumpers, slacks, perhaps in school colors. InSara C. Davidson's view, they might as well just slap on the cuffs. "They're making us ...
Sacred acres
Sep 03, 2000; ... Key events for Temple Mount-Haram as-Sharif: 950 B.C.- King Solomon builds First Temple. 586 B.C. - Babylonians destroy Temple. 520 B.C. - Zerubbabel, leader of Jewish exiles, builds SecondTemple. 19 B.C. - Herod the Great begins large-scale ...
Peace may hinge on sacred compound in Old City
Sep 03, 2000 ... President Clinton will try again during this week's U.N. summitto bridge the Israeli-Palestinian divide, but it is likely theaccord will still snag over 36 sacred acres in Jerusalem's Old City.Jews revere the walled compound they call Temple Mount as home oftheir ancient temples. To ...
Polls point to the unthinkable: defeat for Milosevic
Sep 03, 2000; ... CVETOJEVAC, Yugoslavia - Boza Markovic counts off Yugoslavia'swars on his tobacco-stained fingers: first Slovenia, then Croatia,then Bosnia and finally, worst of all, Kosovo. "Now what?" the 80-year old villager asks as he folds his gnarled hand into a fist. "Isthere anything else to ...
Weather or not
Sep 03, 2000 ... The good and the bad. Remnants of hurricanes Dennis and Floydbrought beneficial rains to ...
Weather data
Sep 03, 2000 ... CHARLESTON AND VICINITY Saturday's temperatures High 86 Low 69 Normal high 78 Normal low 72 Sept. 2 record high 104 set in 1932 Sept. 2 record low 44 set in 1949 Saturday's ...
Regional
Sep 03, 2000 ... W.Va. Today - Monday: Partly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of showers in the afternoon.High in the mid-80s. Calm wind. Tonight, cloudy. Fog developinglate. Low in the mid-60s. Monday, partly cloudy. High in the mid-80s. Boone, Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, ...
U.S.
Sep 03, 2000 ... Anchorage 57 42 Rain Atlanta 82 71 Rain Boston 76 63 Cldy Charlotte,N.C. 82 70 Rain Chicago 91 68 PCldy Cincinnati 87 70 PCldy Cleveland 82 65 PCldy Dallas-Ft Worth 108 81 Clr Denver 82 55 PCldy Detroit 82 66 ...
Putnam residents sue to block: ; U.S. 35 plan; Lawsuit seeks public hearings on upgrade
Sep 03, 2000; ... pjnyden@wvgazette.com Three Putnam County residents filed a lawsuit against the stateDivision of Highways on Friday seeking to halt upgrading work onU.S. 35 along Crook-ed Creek. The suit alleges several localresidents will lose homes and property if the project proceeds andasks ...
Assignment West Virginia: ; Barbour County; 36TH IN THE SERIES; Business of death still lively
Sep 03, 2000; ... tara@wvgazette.com PHILIPPI - How many times have you noticed it: In every littleWest Virginia county, in town after tiny town where the exodus ofindustry is written in broken sidewalks and furrowed brows, there'salways one business still kicking. The funeral parlor. Usually ...
Work to temporarily close part of McFarland Street
Sep 03, 2000; ... gmoore@wvgazette.com Part of McFarland Street in downtown Charleston will be closedlater this week while Charleston Newspapers builds a new parkinggarage along the street. The southernmost block of McFarlandStreet, between Virginia Street and Kanawha Boulevard, will beclosed on ...
A walk on West Washington: ; There's a little hustle, not as much bustle on Charleston street
Sep 03, 2000; ... gregstone@wvgazette.com If she only had use of that silver DeLorean that Michael J. Foxused in "Back to the Future." Pauline Butta knows where her timetravels would take her. "I'd like to go back to 1964," she said. "That's when it wasgood." West Washington Street ...
Working in a sleepy state ...of mind
Sep 03, 2000; ... Tomorrow being Labor Day, it seems only appropriate to reflect alittle about the line of work in which I currently find myselftoiling - that of a professional bush league newspaper columnist. Without the courage and sacrifice of the generations of Single-Acolumnists who came before me, ...
Teamsters officials' pay has grown, group says
Sep 03, 2000; ... pjnyden@wvgazette.com Last year, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters paid 182union officials between $100,000 and $312,000, according to a newreport issued by Teamsters for a Democratic Union, a reform groupwithin the union. The new study said the first year under ...
Steady rain cools off fires
Sep 03, 2000; ... HELENA, Mont. - A few days of rain have helped to slow the spreadof wildfires burning on hundreds of thousands of acres across theNorthern Rockies. "These are probably the best conditions we've hadsince this fire started," said Dan Kincaid, a fire informationofficer for a 81,000-acre ...
No simple answer to drug price woes
Sep 03, 2000; ... WASHINGTON - On the campaign stump, Vice President Al Gore pusheshis plan for a Medicare prescription drug benefit as a humane effortto help older Americans who are being gouged by profit-hungrypharmaceutical manufacturers. In television commercials, Texas Gov.George W. Bush's campaign ...
Saturday rain closes Regatta
Sep 03, 2000 ... The curtain came down on Charleston Sternwheel Regatta activitiesat 9:15 p.m. Saturday. "After two and a half hours of steady rain,we shut down," Danny Jones, Regatta ...
Funerals today
Sep 03, 2000 ... BAILEY, Mae L. - 3 p.m., Rose & Quesenberry Funeral Home,Beckley. BOYD, Thelma A. - 2 p.m., Mount Hope Baptist Temple. BURGESS, Alice M. - 1 p.m., White Oak Freewill Baptist Church,Orgas. CANTERBURY, Marion Jr. - 1 p.m., Mud Fork Freewill BaptistChurch. DICK, ...
DEATHS
Sep 03, 2000 ... Eugenia K. Alderson Eugenia K. Alderson, 70, of Charleston died Sept. 2, 2000, inGeneral Division, CAMC, after a long illness. She was a member ofBible Center Church, Charleston, and was a retired surgical nurse atThomas Memorial Hospital, South Charleston, with 38 years' ...
Doddridge crash kills 1
Sep 03, 2000 ... WEST UNION - A passenger is dead and the driver will face chargesafter a wreck Saturday in Doddridge County. Joseph G. Owens, 47, ofWest Union, died after the vehicle in which he was riding landed onhim. He was not wearing a seat belt. Owens was riding with John William Pickens, ...
4 die in Ohio plane crash
Sep 03, 2000; ... APPLE CREEK, Ohio - A small airplane on its way to an air showcrashed in a wooded area Saturday, killing four people and seriouslyinjuring another. The Piper Cherokee Six 300 had just taken offfrom an airport about a mile from the crash site early Saturdaymorning, said Lt. Joel Smith of ...
WEEK IN REVIEW: ; AUG. 27-SEPT.1, 2000; Marshall keeps its streak intact
Sep 03, 2000 ... The body of a woman found near a swimming hole along Blue CreekRoad was identified as that of Paula Kelley, 29, of Meadowbrook.Kanawha County Sheriff's deputies said Kelley died after beingstruck on the head with a blunt object .... A conservative seniorsgroup that advocates privatizing ...
WEEK IN REVIEW: ; AUG. 27-SEPT.1, 2000; Marshall keeps its streak intact
Sep 03, 2000; ... F. BRIAN FERGUSON/Sunday Gazette-Mail Thundering Herd safety Larry Davis hauls in an interception inthe end zone. Marshall University continued the nation's ...
Myerses hope to send message
Sep 03, 2000 ... BOB MYERS Age: 72. Hometown: Born and lives in Huntington. Occupation: Retired trucking company owner. Computer consultantand day trader. Current office: None. Previous campaigns: Served on Huntington City Council 1964-1966,Cabell County Board of Education ...
Myerses hope to send message: ; Enough is enough, Libertarians say of state's politics
Sep 03, 2000; ... HUNTINGTON - The Libertarian Party's husband-wife team of Bob andPoochie Myers, candidates for governor and secretary of state, aretrue believers in the party's ideals of minimal government andmaximum personal liberties. They also are as devoted tometaphysics, art and to each other as ...
Man behind Ingles re-enactment cited for destruction of property: ; His neighbor unfairly criticized, lawyer says
Sep 03, 2000; ... sfinn@wvgazette.com The man who hosts the annual Mary Ingles celebration on his landwas charged with destruction of property Friday in Putnam CountyMagistrate Court. The charge is part of an ongoing dispute thatcould disrupt the re-enactment of pioneer life at the time of ...
HUD program offers options: ; Some empty homes in Fayette to be bought, renovated, sold
Sep 03, 2000; ... susanwilliams@wvgazette.com FAYETTEVILLE - Fayette County commissioners bought a house forone dollar this week and joined a federal program that promises tohelp eliminate abandoned homes. When a home has mortgage insurancethrough the federal Housing and Urban Development ...
The Way It Was
Sep 03, 2000; ... This colorful view of the vanished landmark taken from the SouthSide Bridge will bring back fond memories for many of us who grew upwith the Ruffner. About 1907, the boom town growth of Charlestonrequired more hotel space. So the grand steeple and roof of theRuffner gave way to two ...
Skylark threatened by gene-altered crops: ; Botanists fight weed/fire cycle
Sep 03, 2000; ... WASHINGTON - The skylark, beloved in English verse for its song,could become a rare bird in England if farmers there adopt some newbiotech crops, according to a new British study. Americanagricultural researchers, however, say that conclusions of the studyare "simplistic" and are highly ...
Botanists fight weed/fire cycle
Sep 03, 2000; ... EPHRAIM, Utah - Steve Monsen has nightmares about weeds. Squarrose knapweed, medusa head and cheatgrass - most of allcheatgrass. They creep into his conscious and his conversation justas they're invading the range land he grew up on. Foreign weeds aredriving out the sagebrush and ...
Earth to look at universe with new eyes
Sep 03, 2000; ... WASHINGTON - Attention, all moons, planets, stars and galaxies:Earth will soon be staring at you with bigger, keener eyes than everbefore. An age of mammoth telescopes - optical, radio and infrared,on land and in space - is beginning. Their goal is to look back tothe dawn of the ...
Big Tobacco's global agenda
Sep 03, 2000; ... Tobacco companies are on the defensive in the United States. Butthey are playing offense abroad. A new report released this monthby the World Health Organization shows that the tobacco industry hasworked for years to discredit the WHO and curb the agency's effortsto reduce tobacco ...
Labor Day 2000: ; There are many reasons to celebrate ... and worry
Sep 03, 2000; ... Labor Day, which was first celebrated as a testament to theadvances of the union movement, is now viewed by most Americans asthe dividing point between summer and fall, a time for families toget together for a barbecue and take a day off. But on this firstLabor Day of the third ...
LEADERSHIP REQUIRES DISTORTION, ACTING ABILITY: ; The Presidential Song and Dance
Sep 03, 2000; ... According to Mark Twain, once a person starts downhill, you cannever tell where he's going to stop. In President Clinton's case,you can only hope it was last month in Los Angeles. Barring somenational crisis between now and November, his nationally televisedpolitical convention speech ...
RUSSELL'S views
Sep 03, 2000; ... Regarding his mega-severance package, Dick Cheney may be thefirst person in history to become a vice presidential candidate forthe money. *** Regarding the prescription drug issue, Gore said to Bush: "Put upor shut up." Must there be a choice? *** Throughout the ...
Labor: ; Awesome changes
Sep 03, 2000 ... AMERICA'S surging economy has created nearly 40 million new jobsin the past two decades, and unemployment has sunk to its lowestlevel in 30 years. This desirable achievement makes the UnitedStates the envy of almost the whole world. The boom is causingworker shortages at all levels ....
Other views
Sep 03, 2000 ... Tools catch drugs, not aliens Add this one to the list of contenders for the Emptiest Argumentof 2000: When U.S. Customs agents unveiled high-technology tools tocatch smugglers, immigrant-rights groups complained that the moneyshould have been spent instead on improving conditions ...
Your views
Sep 03, 2000 ... Gore's school stance queried Editor: I hope all the supporters of Al Gore know how silly they andtheir candidate look when they oppose school choice. Over the pastfew months, I have read about the survey that indicates only 30percent of college students know which ...
Gore should incite yuppies
Sep 03, 2000; ... AL GORE has been doing better. But there's still a lot ofskepticism about whether his angry populism can work. The timesseem out of joint for inflaming the haves and the have-nots. And thevice president, sporting a moussed 'do and those heathery poloshirts, hardly looks like Willie ...
Labor Day brings state campaigns into high gear
Sep 03, 2000; ... WITH THE LABOR DAY kickoff of the fall election campaign,remnants of the 1996 labor-business clash are dogging the majorpolitical parties' gubernatorial and presidential races. But thegovernor's race is a lot different than it was four years ago. Itisn't as polarized, a pro-business ...
ESSAYS on faith: ; Holiday teaches valuable lesson: Labor is liberating
Sep 03, 2000; ... The Nazi penchant for inhumane acts knew no bounds. At theentryway to the concentration camps of brutality and death theyconstructed elaborate arches with the words "Arbeit macht frei,"work is liberating. Behind these words lie camps of slave laborleading to painful death. The ...
What we believe: ; Religious practices vary widely among Jews
Sep 03, 2000; ... When speaking of or writing about Judaism it is always prudent torecall the adage that a discussion between two Jews results in threeconclusions. The caveat here is that very little about Judaism maybe stated categorically. Jews comprise a broad spectrum of theology,practice and ...
BUSH, GORE GETTING READY TO RUMBLE: ; Expect lots of pre-debate bickering between camps; Analysis
Sep 03, 2000; ... WASHINGTON - White House campaigners Al Gore and George W. Bushwill be debating in a month or so, and the gamesmanship has begun,as it always does. Before they face each other, their debatenegotiators will argue about when, where and how. That means someserious nitpicking before they ...
War, disease, religion shaking pillars of education: ; School not even a remote option for young people around the globe
Sep 03, 2000; ... Their school is a shack of weather-beaten wood under a highway.The children arrive, walking past mounds of plastic bottles andaluminum cans scavenged for recycling. And a parent counts herblessings. "Thank God for this place," says Tina Rosa, whose 5-year-old daughter attends the free ...
TRAPPER: ; Critter Control takes 'em away
Sep 03, 2000; ... balow@wvgazette.com ot bats in the belfry? Pigeons on the prowl? Raccoons raiding the bird feeder? Bill Crockett might be able to help. "I've caught 19 raccoons in one lady's yard in South Hills," hesaid. "She had four bird feeders and didn't like them ...
Market heats up this month
Sep 03, 2000; ... NEW YORK - After staying cool for most of the summer, the stockmarket finally heated up in August. Wall Street rallied, with allthe major indexes closing decisively higher for the month, endingthe seesawing that has characterized the market since April, whenworries about Internet stocks ...
TELEMARKETING: ; MOM, INTERRUPTED: Wheeling woman fought back against the telemarketers
Sep 03, 2000; ... gregstone@wvgazette.com An anti-telemarketing zealot was born Jan. 1, 1998. That's the day Diana Mey decided to keep a list of calls placedto her home by dreaded telemarketers, purveyors of a form ofcommerce she had long detested. "I had three boys in threedifferent ...