ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, June 14, 1996 TAG: 9606140037
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: A-7 EDITION: METRO
Public hearing set on transportation
The Commission on the Future of Southwest Virginia, a regional development and visioning group organized by Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Abingdon, will hold a public hearing on transportation issues Monday at Clinch Valley College in Wise.
Among the projects that will be discussed are the Coalfields Expressway, a new four-lane divided highway connecting Buchanan, Dickenson and Wise counties; improvements to Interstate 81; completion of U.S. 58 from Cumberland Gap in Lee County to Virginia Beach; and a study of proposed passenger rail service from Bristol to Richmond and Washington, D.C.
The hearing will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the college's Chapel of All Faiths.
- Staff report
Two New River paging firms sold
Two New River Valley businesses, Paging Inc. of Christiansburg and Business Answering Service Enterprises of Blacksburg, have been sold to Highland Paging Inc. of Beckley, W.Va.
The acquisition extends Highland Paging's service region to 22 counties in east Tennessee, Southwest Virginia and southeastern West Virginia. No management or staff changes are anticipated in the New River Valley companies. Terms of the deal, which took place earlier this spring, were not disclosed.
Highland Paging is a subsidiary of Highland Cellular Inc., which owns and operates Cellular One in Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Raleigh and Summers counties in West Virginia and Bland and Tazewell counties in Virginia.
- Staff report
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