Drag strip promoter eyeing new project
As the promoter/operator of the Twin Branch Drag Strip waits with everyone else for the access road leading up to the facility to be opened to the general public and actual events there can finally begin, he’s also been using the time to develop additional plans for the mountaintop venue located near Myrtle. During this month’s regular Mingo County Redevelopment Authority meeting, Pete Scalzo approached the board with a plan to add an all-terrain vehicle, utility terrain vehi
MCRA mulling flooring plant deal
The Mingo County Redevelopment Authority is considering a proposal from a veneer manufacturing company that, if accepted, could ultimately result in that company purchasing the former Mohawk flooring plant and associated adjacent property at the James H. (Buck) Harless Wood Products Industrial Wood Park.During the MCRA’s regular meeting May 16, David Johnston, who is the CFO of Coldwater Veneer and who has operations in Michigan and Virginia, told the board that company owner
Coldwater Veneer working on agreement to buy local wood flooring plant in Mingo
WILLIAMSON - The Mingo County Redevelopment Authority has a potential client who is exploring building a saw mill in Wood Park located at the Harless Industrial Park near Holden. Although authority officials did not reveal the client's name at this time, Barry Cook, director of the West Virginia Division of Forestry, attended the meeting to give some feedback and to act as a mediator. (Cook grew up in East Williamson and graduated from Williamson High School in 1967.) Cook sa
