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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 7, 1990                   TAG: 9003071647
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

10 SEEK BLACKSBURG, CHRISTIANSBURG SEATS

Ten people have applied for eight open seats in Blacksburg and Christiansburg Town Council elections.

The contested race will be in Blacksburg, where former council member Frank Teske and Planning Commission member Ray Chisholm will take on incumbents Lewis Barnett, Joyce Lewis and Al Leighton. Mayor Roger Hedgepeth also will seek re-election in a separate race.

In Christiansburg, Mayor Harold Linkous and council members Ann Carter, Ray E. Lester Jr. and Jack Via are unopposed.

The 10 had filed before the Circuit Court clerk's office closed at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. The official deadline was 7 p.m.

- New River Valley bureau 


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