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Article: Commissioners settle their biscuit bet: ; Application for stormwater project grant turned down, Putnam officials also learn
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- Charleston Daily Mail
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- November 11, 2009
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WINFIELD - At first glance, Putnam County commissioners appeared
united, with both Joe Haynes and Garry Tillis sporting gold and blue
West Virginia University letters.
But the WVU tie Haynes wore Tuesday was just a sign that the
Marshall University graduate was paying up on his breakfast-biscuit
bet following his alma mater's football loss last month to the
Morgantown rival.
It has become an annual tradition for the two commissioners to
bet on their favorite team in the Coal Bowl, with the loser buying
breakfast and taking a hit on his pride.
Haynes said he had been ready to pay up at the first meeting
after the Oct. 17 game, thumping an aged biscuit on the commission
desk. But Tillis ...