Little Jefferson 'Moving Forward' - Toward Bankruptcy

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In Jefferson, "We're moving forward" is the town motto. It adorns everything from town business cards to signs welcoming people to the western Kanawha County town.

Mayor Thomas Lewis often uses the phrase in conversation and in his monthly advertisements in St. Albans Monthly, touting what is going on in town.

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Little Jefferson 'Moving Forward' - Toward Bankruptcy

Lewis usually closes every town council meeting with some variation of the optimistic mantra.

Part of his plan for moving the town forward is implementing a business and occupation tax, but that idea doesn't sit well with many of the town's business owners. And that opposition doesn't sit well with the mayor, either.

Removal-from-office proceedings start Monday for Lewis, Town Recorder Kathy Miller and Councilman James Lynch before a three- judge panel appointed by the West Virginia Supreme Court...

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