ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, March 8, 1997 TAG: 9703100021
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
The Radford City School Board hired a new principal for Belle Heth Elementary School Thursday night. Ken Alderman, assistant principal for Radford High School, was selected to replace Belle Heth principal Gerry Glass. After a 28-year tenure, Glass will retire in June.
Alderman said Friday it will be "kind of like coming home." He began school at Belle Heth and graduated from Radford High School in 1973. He taught middle and high school in places such as Georgia and Louisiana before returning to the high school three years ago. With all the excitement after the announcement, he said, he hasn't had much time to think about the promotion to Belle Heth. "They've got a veteran staff up there and I'm just looking forward to it," Alderman said.
Also Thursday, the Radford School Board announced the resignation of Olivia Linkous, director of special education.
Upcoming:
The Montgomery County Public Service Authority has called a special meeting for 6:30 p.m. Monday to review amendments to a 1995 water and wastewater utility extension agreement with Carilion Radford Community Hospital.
Last week, the PSA accepted bids for bringing water to the new hospital site on Virginia 177. A sewer line contract still needs to be awarded. The PSA delayed awarding the water and sewer bids at its February meeting because hospital officials weren't pleased that the bids came in more than $260,000 over the engineers' estimates.
The hospital is offering to pay the additional cost if it can recoup that money through connection fees that will be paid by other customers and businesses as the Bethel-Tyler Road (Virginia 177) area develops. The water bid awards were approved contingent on a modified contract between the PSA and the hospital.
Then, at 7 p.m., the PSA board will adjourn and reconvene as the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors. The supervisors' regular meeting will include a work session on the proposed 1997-98 budget and a closed-door session to discuss the appointment of personnel in the county administrator's office and the use or acquisition of property for Falling Branch Industrial Park and Christiansburg Middle School. Both meetings are on the third floor of the county courthouse at Main and Franklin streets in downtown Christiansburg.
A joint meeting of the Pulaski County Board of Supervisors and School Board is planned for 7 p.m. Monday, to discuss the upcoming 1997-98 school budget and plans for a school construction program in the county.
Radford City Council will hear public comments on a plan to revitalize the Central Business District at 7:30 p.m. Monday in council chambers at 619 Second St. Also on the agenda will be the Radford Planning Commission's recommendations for future highway projects. They are as follows: a Tyler Avenue-to-Park Road connector; Second Avenue improvements from Lawrence Street to Park Road; the Memorial Bridge replacement to be coordinated with a proposed Connelly's Run "Parkway;" and Tyler Avenue-to-Virginia 114 connector road with a second New River Bridge crossing.
-NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
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