Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 4, 1992 TAG: 9203040170
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-13 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
Most were conditionally given in December to the combined Blue & White and Deluxe cabs, pending the outcome of legal difficulties of some of the people involved in their operations. The other five went to Jim Dandy Cabs, which is interested in adding more if certificates to the first two firms are revoked.
Jim Aust of Jim Dandy said his company was ready to add five or more cabs immediately. But Town Attorney Frank Terwilliger said council was locked into its scheduled April 21 public hearing on the matter unless it changes its own rules governing certificates for cabs.
In other business, council voted not to change its policy of calling a rotating list of wreckers from those doing business in the town. The only exception is when someone with car problems specifies that some other wrecker be called.
The town had been approached by a wrecker business from Pulaski County to see if it could get on the list of those to be called.
Town Manager Don Holycross reported both town reservoirs back to normal levels following recent rains.
Mayor Gary Hancock said most of the renovation work in the train station has been completed in that part of the building that will house a visitors' center and the county Chamber of Commerce. The next step will be carpeting the section.
He estimated it will take $15,000 to finish all the work planned for the landmark building. Most of the work so far has "been done by some of our town employees and a great many volunteers from the community," he said.
The town has had to dig up underground oil tanks around property that it leases to a cab company, and Holycross said nine were found where it had been thought there were only three.
Holycross also reported that Blue Cross rates for town employees will rise 11.9 percent next year. He said that was the second-lowest increase among municipalities in the state, with others going up as much as 40 percent.
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