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Article: Dunbar fighting Hot Spot: Mayor says city believed gambling parlor was operating as a real fraternal organization
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- November 29, 2005
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DAILY MAIL STAFF
The Hot Spot has become a hot issue again - this time in the city
of Dunbar.
After losing their Kanawha City location in September, owners of
the gambling parlor opened another one near the Cold Spot along W.Va.
25 in Dunbar earlier this month.
And like deja vu, this municipality wants them out, too.
The Dunbar Hot Spot opened Nov. 2, but Mayor Roger Wolfe said he
would issue a letter sometime this week rescinding its license to
operate in the city.
Wolfe says the city believed the gambling parlor was operating as
a fraternal organization, the Fraternal Order of the Owls Nest.
" ... It's a great concern to me," Wolfe said. "I got burnt. They
told me, the city code ...