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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Strike Three

Editor's Note:  It is most interesting to watch the Town of Marlinton in action.  The town fathers and mothers tend to turn to outside help for their problems.  Nothing is different this time either.  The Great Greenbrier Valley Economic Development Corporation rides in like the calvary or more appropriately, the Keystone Cops to rescue the town.

They came to the rescue of the town with the Edray Industrial Park which stands empty with no tenant and no prospect of a tenant.  They came to the rescue with the Floodwall Protection Project for Marlinton.  The problem is that there is no floodwall protection project and in fact it amounts to nothing more that a poster on the town office wall.

And now:  strike three.  The Greenbrier Valley Economic Development Corporation rides to the rescue again.  They propose to rebuild the town center.  We shall see; just don't get your hopes too high.  They admit that they don't have a comprehensive plan.












5 comments:

  1. surprised they didnt come up with "prepubscent tourism".

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhYJS80MgYA

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    1. No real jobs so untill a company moves in that pays a living wage it will be just what it is,another hick town.
      The Road Runner...

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  2. you know when i saw phil cane and fred burns,i thought,"" do they never quit""............a lot of the reason the town looks that way,can lay at the feet of those two gents.........what would make sense,would be to appoint the lady from the dirt bean,to run the rebuild..........she was the only person,to hit that town in along time that had any new ideas ...........you know like vision and sight...........oh yeah and not from the legal,banking and chamber of commerce........all the above mentioned have been in charge for a long long time.................really they do not have very much or nothing to show for their efforts............it is long past time they get out of the way............greenbrier economic development has to go through the motions,to make it look like we are getting our monies worth,for what we are paying them every year.................one day soon the motto "shop local""will have no meaning..............because there will not be a town....................

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  3. What would Phil or fred stand to gain ?
    I would guess they like it the way it is .
    The dirt bean lady might make progress.
    At least she would fix parking and street sign issues which is more than the babbling brothers have done.

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  4. LETS US NOT FORGET NEW BUSINESS START UPS CAN MAKE MONEY AND THREATEN THE POWER BALANCE THAT IS IN PLACE. who CONTROLS THAT IS THE QUESTION.
    Who wants things to stay as it is.
    The Road Runner...

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