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PARTICIPANTS
IN
the
Buchanan
County
Fair
StickHorse
Race
listen
intently
to
their
final
instructions
before
taking
off
for
the
finish
line
in
last
week's
Kids
Day
event.
The
fair
got
underway
last
Wednesday
and
concluded
on
Saturday.
Additional
photos
from
the
fair
may
be
found
on
pages
2A
and
11
A
of
the
paper
edition.
(Staff
photo/Scotty
Wampler.)
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1,500
Affected
by
Outage |
by
Cathy
St.
Clair
News
Editor |
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More
than
1,500
Buchanan
County
residents
were
without
electricity
part
of
the
day
Monday
after
a
pole
failure
in
the
Grundy-Big
Rock
sub-transmission
line.
According
to
Appalachian
Power
Company
Communications
Manager
John
Shepelwich,
the
pole
failure
occurred
around
6
a.m.
on
Monday,
after
a
pole
and
lines
were
discovered
downed
on
a
cliff
in
the
Big
Rock-Grundy
area.
Power
was
not
fully
restored
until
11:49
p.m.
Shepelwich
noted
603
customers
were
affected
on
one
circuit
and
908
were
affected
on
a
second
circuit.
Altogether,
1511
customers
were
impacted.
He
noted
some
customers
were
rerouted
during
the
outage
which
allowed
some
to
have
their
electricity
restored
earlier
than
others.
"Most
of
our
customers
were
back
up
by
mid-day
on
Monday,
but
100
or
so
were
still
without
electricity
until
the
lines
were
reconnected
near
midnight,"
Shepelwich
said.
The cause of the pole failure was not immediately
known,
Shepwich
said,
adding
it
could
be
any
one
of
several
reasons
ranging
from
a
slide
to
the
pole
splitting.
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Federal
Subpoenas
Issued
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by
Cathy
St.
Clair
News
Editor
A
federal
investigation
involving
a
former
employee
of
the
Buchanan
County
Sheriff's
Office
is
apparently
underway,
however,
officials
remained
tight-lipped
on
the
nature
of
the
investigation
or
who
is
being
investigated.
Buchanan
County
Sheriff
Ray
Foster
confirmed
that
several
employees
in
his
office
have
been
served
with
federal
subpoenas
to
appear
as
witnesses
before
a
federal
Grand
Jury,
apparently
related
to
an
ongoing
investigation.
Foster
declined
to
elaborate
further
as
to
what
the
ongoing
investigation
might
be,
but
did
say
it
apparently
involved
a
former
employee
of
the
Buchanan
County
Sheriff's
office.
"The
incident
in
question
was
turned
over
to
the
Commonwealth
Attorney's
Office
for
investigation,"
Foster
said
in
a
brief
press
release
issued
Monday.
Commonwealth
Attorney
Sheila
Tolliver
was
out
of
town
this
week
and
was
unavailable
for
comment.
"Due
to
the
ongoing
investigation,
no
names
can
be
released
nor
can
further
comments
be
made
at
this
time,"
Foster
said
in
the
news
release
he
issued
in
relation
to
his
decision
on
how
to
answer
questions
related
to
the
subpoenas.
"I'm
not
trying
to
hide
anything
and
my
office
is
not
hiding
anything,"
Foster
said.
"I
just
want
to
let
the
Grand
Jury
process
run
its
course."
He
did
not
elaborate
further.
The
subpoenas
were
apparently
served
on
Tuesday,
July
25.
The
number
of
employees
receiving
them
was
not
known
at
press
time.
The case now being looked at by the federal Grand Jury
is
apparently
unrelated
to
an
ongoing
case
set
for
trial
in
federal
court
at
the
end
of
the
month
involving
a
former
deputy
charged
with
obstruction
of
justice
and
perjury
in
relation
to
the
investigation
of
the
death
of
Tina
Stiltner
which
occurred
in
the
Buchanan
County
Jail,
prior
to
when
Foster
took
office
as
sheriff.
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