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A public hearing will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4 at the V.I. Fish and Game Club in Red Hook regarding Draft Management Plan for overfished Atlantic swordfish, sharks and tunas.
There's great St. Thomian excitement brewing in Key West, Fla., right now as plans take shape for the fourth annual St. Thomas Bacchanal to be held there this spring.
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Dependable will visit St. Thomas from 9 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, through 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 6. It will be at the north side dock at Crown Bay.
Gov. Charles W. Turnbull sent Dr. Ruby Simmonds' nomination to be education commissioner to the Senate on Monday, the same day Simmonds started in the post.
Road work was set to begin Monday to improve drainage, build culverts and resurface the road between Crown Mountain Road and Black Point Hill in Estate Pearl. In addition a no-right-turn provision went into effect on the second access road to Kmart in Tutu Park Mall.
President Bill Clinton has included in his year 2000 budget a proposal to return to the Virgin Islands the entire $13.50-per-gallon federal tax levied on Virgin Islands rum.