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Article: Jefferson County to vote again on table games
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- August 7, 2009
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MORGANTOWN - Charles Town Races & Slots is making another bid for
table games. Officials with the Jefferson County casino announced
Thursday they will soon formally ask county commissioners to
schedule a Dec. 5 referendum on the issue.
A vote on whether to install poker tables, roulette wheels and
other games alongside 5,000 slot machines at the Eastern Panhandle
facility failed two years ago, but officials with the Pennsylvania-
based parent company, Penn National Gaming Inc., believe the odds
are now in their favor.
"We said all along that we wanted to see signs that the community
wanted table games and wanted us to run the referendum," said John
Finamore, senior vice president of ...