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File Photo - Former Brooke High football coach Paul âBudâ Billiard, who led the Bruins to three Class AAA state titles, died Tuesday at 79.
For Paul “Bud” Billiard, it didn’t matter.
Whether it involved his family, teaching, coaching or even his service to Brooke County, Billiard was always all about the kids.
And that dedication to the youth of Brooke County is how he is being remembered by many who knew him well after his death Tuesday morning at the age of 79.
“Budro did so many positive things,” an emotional Ron Mauck, who was the Brooke High School Director of Athletics during much of Billiard’s coaching tenure, said. “He gave his life to what he believed in. And that was kids. And you really can’t ask for any more from someone than that.”
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Photo Provided â This home at 1617 Main St. in Wellsburg is among those being profiled by West Virginia Senate Majority Whip Ryan Weld, R-Brooke, in a book he is writing about the community.
WELLSBURG – West Virginia Senate Majority Whip Ryan Weld is writing a book one that depicts Wellsburg’s story through its structures and the families who lived and worked in them.
“The perspective of the book is telling Wellsburg’s history through the stories of the families who built, lived in or had significant events in some of our more architecturally significant, or historically significant homes,” explained Weld, R-Brooke.
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LEASE APPROVED â The Brooke County Board of Education agreed Monday to lease property across from Brooke Middle School to SWN Water Resources, pending the companyâs decision to built a booster pump there to convey water from nearby Cross Creek to natural gas well sites.
(Photo by Warren Scott)
WELLSBURG The Brooke County Board of Education agreed Monday to lease property owned by the school district to a natural gas company and chose the least extensive of options for an update to its future building plans.
Steve Mitchell, the district’s director of maintenance, buildings and grounds, told the board the land north of Brooke Middle School near the railroad tracks above Cross Creek.
Staff writer
WELLSBURG The Brooke County Board of Education agreed Monday to lease property owned by the school district to a natural gas company and chose the least extensive of options for an update to its future building plans.
Steve Mitchell, the district’s director of maintenance, buildings and grounds, told the board the land north of Brooke Middle School near the railroad tracks above Cross Creek.
He said SWN Water Resources, an affiliate of Southwestern Energy, is exploring the possibility of building a booster pump on the site to convey water from the creek to natural gas well sites.