Annual Pool Whine Begins

MOTHERFUCKER

It's September and Halburn has started his annual whining about the pools closing.
What is his obsession with pools?

After all these years, he still doesn't get it. Most lifeguards are high school and college students. Once school starts the "pool" of employees dries up. The customers are back in school. Pools don't exist to solely "service him."
And then he makes the ridiculous assertion that pools reduce crime because they give burglars and shoplifters something else to do. Which is hilarious because heroin addicts and meth heads aren't the ones using the pools even when they're open.

His solution is for taxpayers to build pools at every high school. So he could swim there for free, no doubt. And those lifeguards that pools can't find after school starts? Pay them more.

We've got a solution for you, you fat fuck. If you want to swim year round, join the YMCA. But that costs money.
If you actually had a real job, you wouldn't have time to lounge around by the pool all day anyway. You'd be working to pay the full amount of your child support obligations.

Then he closes with the demand,
"Change our way of thinking and get moving!
Lose that weight!"

A polish sausage eating, 330 pound diabetic has no business giving anyone health advice.

Halburn Cops A Plea!!!

Agreement Keeps Him Out Of Jail - For Now

Mark Vance Halburn

PutnamLIES has learned that Mark Vance Halburn has copped a plea for 6 months of pre-trial diversion, pending counseling, in his telephone harassment case.  Basically probation. An agreement was reached before his trial started Monday morning.

All charges are still pending until completion of the 6 month period.

UPDATE:
Here's the deal Halburn made to stay out of jail. 
He can't violate any Federal, state or local law.
He can't have any contact with the victim(s).
He can't associate with convicted felons.
He must pay $160.80 in court costs within 6 months.
He has been ordered to attend the Batterer's Intervention/Prevention program for domestic violence offenders at the YWCA in Charleston. 
He must attend 32 classes there within 40 weeks and he must begin them within two weeks of the agreement.
He has to pay a $50 enrollment fee and a weekly fee. A minimum of $10/week.
If he complies with the program he won't be prosecuted and the charges will be dismissed.
If he violates the conditions, he'll be prosecuted on the charges.

Basically he's guilty, but this keeps him out of jail. If he fucks up at counseling, it's over. This is giving him enough rope to hang himself. His odds of complying with counseling aren't good, given he doesn't believe he has any problems.

Later Monday evening, after he cut his deal to stay out of jail, Halburn  had to pipe up on Topix as one of his sock puppets and attempt to parse his way out of his latest self-created mess.

Because all free men are required to attend day report counseling.
Not Guilty? Not innocent either. The charges are still out there. It's not over yet.

Then Crisco tries another lie.

Yeah, because that's exactly how magistrate court works.
The morning stuff was for to him to cop a plea. That's all there was. There was no afternoon trial. There was no acquittal. His lawyer was begging for him to stay out of jail. He's free only in the sense that a man on probation is free.

The case number is 12-M-8580 in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

The entire case file can be see here.


UPDATE 2: 
2/13/13
Here's the pre-trial diversion agreement that Halburn claims doesn't exist. With his signature on it.  I'll bet his lawyer would be surprised.

UPDATE 3:

2/21/13

Now Halburn says this report is "off base", in a desperate attempt to divert attention away from his criminal behavior.

UPDATE 4:

3/1/13

Halburn is now claiming that he doesn't have to take COURT ORDERED YWCA BIPP classes because he has never been accused of Domestic Battery, and hasn't been convicted.
And again he plays the semantics card by stating he doesn't teach at Chandler Elementary. Chandler Elementary is now an alternative school (for criminals and thugs) called Chandler Academy for middle and high school students. Halburn has been subbing there. He's a perfect fit in there with all the miscreants and troublemakers.

Halburn denied the facts in a Topix post, posing as "A dose of reality."

Well, here's the agreement HE signed agreeing to take the classes. Note his crazy scrawl of a signature at the bottom.

The court documents speak for themselves. Res ipsa loquitur.


Related Stories:

Mark Halburn Arrested Again!
PutnumLive website publisher charged with harassment
 

Halburn Buddies Up To Child Molester

Forum Marred By Halburn's Appearance

On Tuesday evening, The South Charleston Chamber of Commerce and the Woman's Club of South Charleston hosted a forum for West Virginia Supreme Court candidates.

The free event, which was open to the public, was attended by Allen Loughry, John Yoder and Tish Chafin. Robin Davis sent a representative. Attendees were able to meet and greet the candidates until Mark Halburn showed up and cornered each potential Justice and began a harangue about how he thought the courts should be run.

Sex Offender Robert Ray Harper, Sr. and pal Mark Halburn yuk it up.

Fresh from his latest telephone harassment arrest, a visibly sweaty (or maybe it was drool), rumpled and slovenly Halburn apparently arranged an outing for all his deadbeat, degenerate Judge Watkins hating buddies as they were all photographed seated together at the event.

Halburn especially wanted his picture taken with convicted sex offender Robert Ray Harper, Sr. 

Harper was convicted in 2000 of molesting a 12 year old little girl that was a family friend.
Harper is one of the deadbeats that Judge Watkins screamed at.
Why?
It seems he owes close to $50,000 in unpaid child support and refuses to pay it, even after receiving a large court settlement.

This is the type of person Mark Halburn has been defending and supporting.

We ask Halburn why he would associate with someone of Harper's ilk.

Halburn has had an on-going fascination with sex offenders for years and now we know the reason why. He enjoys their company.

Halburn is apparently willing to associate with anyone that shares his beliefs. The enemy of his enemy is his friend. There are also some reports of some unsavory things he may have done in the past.

It's never a good idea to be hanging out with someone like this, fatboy. Especially when you're in a dispute over the custody of your child.

You are known by the company you keep.

Why any parent would allow this degenerate to be anywhere near, much less take photographs of, their children and publish them on his blog is a mystery to us. That Kanawha County Schools allows him to substitute teach is an abomination.

Why any company would allow their ads to run on his blog is a mystery. Is this the type of person they want associated with their business?

Walmart Neighbor Wants Out Of Marriage

HALBURN'S WIFE FILES FOR DIVORCE.
Mark Halburn says he'll shut down his blog and move.

Tired of the constant whining, the public embarrassment, the arrests, and the verbal humiliation, one neighbor of the Hurricane supercenter wants out of her marriage.

Mark Vance Halburn's wife filed for divorce on November 1 and a copy of the deed to her house was attached to the complaint. We hope Mrs. Halburn has a lawyer. You know he'll try and bully her into submission to get as much as he can.



Our Topix correspondent, sent along the following tidbit yesterday, posted there Monday night by none other than Mark Halburn, posing as "Newsguy Mark", under the heading of "Hallburns are divorcing".

Halburn writes,
"Before someone else announces it, I'm posting it here. All good things must come to an end, it seems. Tired of the Putnam County harassment, I am moving south. No adultery was committed. No more details, it's none of anybody's business. Show some class and leave it alone."

Well, that's not going to happen, fuckhead. No one's ever accused us of having any class, so let's just get right to it.

You say you're tired of the Putnam County harassment? And you're moving south? Great. We're tired of it too.
Have you already picked out someone new to harass down there? You should get in shape so it won't make you so tired this time.

Where are going to live? You have NO money. You should've thought this through before you once again tried your little sympathy kick. Or did you find a desperate semi-barren old maid on the internet to support you? Maybe someday you can buy YOUR third wife some cheap Chinese shoes.

And why even say "No adultery was committed" out of the blue? What brought that up?
You might as well have said "There is no taco salad" and it would have made as much sense.

Adultery? Hah! You haven't seen your cock in years.
How about mental cruelty?
We've seen how you treat women. We've seen how you bully and belittle people. Could it have been any different for your poor wife behind closed doors?

We can see that being prohibited from taking your child to the park can be a real marital strain. We can see getting fired (again) (you claim you quit, which would be even worse in this economy) from another job with benefits after only six months would cause problems. We can see that being publicly shamed for your behavior at the doctor's office might put a chill on things. The non-stop ranting and raving about trivial matters and all of your other juvenile behavior. It's cumulative. It takes a toll.
Maybe it was when you weren't at home in the evenings and things were so much nicer. Quiet. No chaos or drama. Reality finally strikes.

Looks like she finally reached her limit with you. After 13 years of your joblessness and being an impediment to life, she'd had enough.
She was totally taken in by you, which is how you sociopaths operate, which probably makes her all the more angry.

But on the other hand you've acted this way since you were married. She's seen how you behaved and saw how you were treated like a pariah and she went along with it, either by choice or by force.

PutnamLIES.com knew something was up a couple of months ago. He changed his Facebook status from "Married to DMH" to just "Married". Then she appeared to have defriended him on Facebook, plus his sister, his nieces and nephews ... all of them.

What's he going to do now? Change his status to "single" or "it's complicated"?

Then he goes on to say:

"I don't publish divorces on Putnum LIVE dot com. I am sure PutnamLIES will slime themselves some more by publishing it. Papers were supposed to be filed today. It's in the lawyer's hands.

I'm releasing the news here because I wanted SOME control over the inevitable publicity.

My plans are to move south and sell the news web site. I've already picked out a house that I will buy once the current one is sold.

The prospective new owner of Putnam LIVE dot com is a hard-hitting journalist that will give the bad guys that run this county nightmares that will surpass ANYTHING that I have done. The bastards will get what they deserve!"

You don't publish them but you've had plenty of snide comments to make about other people's divorces.
Believe me, assmunch, as soon as we get the papers we'll publish them.

You wanted to "release" this on the trailer park of the internet. How appropriate for you since you're lower than trailer trash.
Funny though that you didn't announce it on PutnumLive or Facebook. I guess you wanted someplace that more than 29 people would see. That sure will happen here.

You don't even have a claim on the house, asshole. Property acquired before marriage is not a marital asset. And, your name was never on the deed, as you insisted in pointing out at least five times in your deposition. Plus, your mother-in-law has an interest in the house as half owner. At most, all you'd be entitled to is 25% of the profits.

So, unless your second wife is so desperate to get away from you that she'd sell it for whatever she could get out of it and GIVE you some of it, all she owes you is a kick in your flabby ass as she sends you out the door, while she, her son and her Mother continue to live there. It'll be a lot more tolerable with you gone.

She's always been your meal ticket.
She works, cleans, cooks, takes care of the kid and she and her mother own the house. You can't hold a job because of your personality disorder. How are you going to survive in the real world without someone providing for you and wiping your ass?

It's about time she stopped putting up with your shit.

And then there's the son. The little boy that you've polluted and warped with your negative attitude. The only one that's truly innocent in this whole sordid mess.

Without you in the picture though, there's still hope for him. He's what 4? Get him away from you and he ought to smooth out in a few years. He has plenty of time. He'll forget a lot, because your broke ass won't come around often.He'll have a chance to start over if she drops the last name and moves to Kanawha County. If she's smart she'll petition the court to change the kid's name to give him a fighting chance. Going through life with the last name of Halburn would be like being the son of Charles Manson.You know you'll be a deadbeat dad. Collecting child support from you is going to be like pulling teeth.

God love her for giving that kid a chance. I hope she cuts all ties with you.

Then there's the house. Always the house.
That house isn't going to sell unless your second ex-wife accepts reality and puts a realistic price on it. $299,900 ain't going to do it. Reduced price? By $100? Please.

And then you bring up the Scott Edwards offer. But you never tell the truth about that.
The offer was the pre-Walmart appraisal of $149,000 plus 10%. That works out to about $164,000. You should have taken it. 100% of nothing is nothing. Which is what you have now.

Nobody wants your piece of shit opinion blog. The only thing that is worth a dime is the domain name and that's not worth much. The name is damaged goods.

Who are you going to sell it to? That hard hitting investigative reporter Jay Smith? Let him be the next one banned from everywhere. He already has the trespassing conviction to go along with it.

You know the really sweet thing? You're getting exactly what YOU deserve, you fat bastard. In public. The only thing better will be the day you pack up and leave town.

Adios, motherfucker.

As always, we invite Halburn to tell his side of the story or correct any inaccuracies, if he has the guts to.

PutnamLIES.com will have more as it becomes available.

UPDATE: 11/06
Here's the announcement as it appeared in the Sunday Gazette Mail.

Happy Birthday To Us!

It's been exactly two years now since we decided we'd had enough of Halburn's shit. He can no longer abuse with impunity Putnam County's citizens, government officials or anyone else that disagrees with him. Our mission when we started PutnamLIES.com was to expose the lies, hypocrisy and unethical behavior of PutnumLive and its "publisher" Mark Hallburn.

And that we have done.

We are now THE outlet for people to answer the scurrilous charges that he makes.

He has discovered that it's not so fun when the sandal is on the other foot.

It was a big year for PutnamLIES.com and Hallburn continued his long slow slide into oblivion.

So with that said, let's look at the last year.


Pool Whining Continues

Halburn continued his yearly whining about the pools closing the last week in August due to the lifeguards all going back to school.

Then in the spring, we proved him wrong on the cost of holding the end of season Dog Swim.

And it's coming again, so get ready.


Halburn Strokes Out

In October, the news the world was waiting for was released. Halburn had stroked out.

Unfortunately for everyone it was only Bell's Palsy and he is expected to recover.

But he does have diabetes, high blood pressure and sleep apnea, so there is still hope.


Rezoning Maps

Hallburn's investigative reporting uncovered the double secret zoning change to his second wife's property. Except it wasn't her property.PutnamLIES.com proved his allegations wrong. Again.

Anyone that could read a deed and a map could see that.

Except the dummy.

Calls Karen Haynes "A Bitch"

Last fall Hallburn started douching up the trailer park of the internet, Topix, with his presence. In October he called the tireless Karen Haynes "a bitch" because she is married to Hallburn's imagined nemesis Joe Haynes and because of her tireless work raising funds for a new Putnam County Animal Shelter.

Hallburn, you're not fit to scrape the dogshit off this lady's shoes. 
Fired Again

Shortly thereafter, he lost his insurance job with Woodmen of The World, after an incident where he harassed several people at Buffalo's Octoberfest, while he was there representing the insurance company.

Election Warning
Just before the general election in November, the West Virginia Secretary of State sent a warning to Putnam County officials that Halburn might attempt to create a scene and try to disrupt the electoral process. Due to the proactive efforts of the prosecutor and sheriff's office a potential problem was averted.

Desperation Redesign
Late in the year, in a desperate attempt to attract advertisers and bolster his shrinking readership, Hallburn had his news blog redesigned. Now he has a hit counter so he can falsify the number of imaginary readers that he thinks his site gets. He even let the genius that did the redesign to change his URL from a .com to a far less desirable .net.

MySpace 1994 has become MySpace 2010. The same old shit with a barely new look. Proving once again that you can't polish a turd.

Which led to: 

Hit Counter Proven To Be A Fraud

PutnamLIES.com's IT expert showed how Hallburn inflates his hit counter by loading almost 100 different links on every pageload, thereby artificially inflating the actual visitors by a factor of 100. We proved his actual daily readership was about 29 readers.

Form Letters From Politicians

After being exposed multiple times by PutnamLIES.com for stealing letters to the editor from other sources, Halburn was reduced to running press releases from politicians as letters promoting their agendas and Facebook comments masquerading as letters.

Started Running Coupons

Proving that his blog is truly nothing more than a cluttered advertising shopper, Hallburn started running coupons.

Continues Running "News" Stories About "Advertisers"

He continues his unethical practice of running fawning stories about his so-called advertisers under the guise of news.

We're putting you, your "advertisers" and anyone else you promote on notice, fatboy. We are going to parody and belittle all of you. If you're a business and you don't want it done, don't associate with Hallburn. He is a boil on the ass of civilized society and we're here to lance it.

Election Ad Fiasco

We exposed the fact that ads for both Betty Ireland and Natalie Tennant that Hallburn placed on his blog before the Gubernatorial primary were not authorized and were not paid for by either campaign, despite containing the "Paid For By" disclaimer at the bottom, a clear violation of WV election law.

Both the candidates and their supporters wanted NOTHING to do with Hallburn or his blog. Hallburn was never able to provide any proof that the ads were paid for, a fact which both candidates' financial reports confirmed.

Narrowly Avoids Arrest in Charlotte 
While sponging off his second wife when she was in North Carolina for a Mary Kay pyramid seminar this March, Halburn was involved in pool incidents at at least 2 different hotels. The police were called in the second incident and Hallburn was escorted out of the hotel along with an unnamed minor boy. Shortly after they returned home, his second wife was fired from a teaching job she had held for a number of years, allegedly over her husband's behavior.

Falsifies Own Poll Results

As part of the pathetic "redesign" of his blog, Hallburn added a poll on a sidebar which he loads up with slanted questions. But, Hallburn being Hallburn can't leave anything alone that goes against his preconceived ideas, so he alters the results to make them give the answer he wants. When we called him on it, he went so far as to accuse HIS readers of stacking the poll.

And we end our year with Halburn's latest escapade.

Thrown Out Of Strayer University

In May Halburn was thrown out of Strayer University in Teays Valley where he was attending grad school for a degree in, are you ready for this, Human Relations. Yeah, we got a good laugh out of that too.

But seriously, he went in, caused a big stink, threatened the Dean and was thrown out.

The best part? The Dean is a 4th Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo. She could have kicked his ass all the way back to California.

PutnamLIES.com was started to do one thing: Expose the lies that Mark Halburn was printing every day on his blog. The LIES we're talking about are his. We've been doing it now for two years, and he still doesn't seem to like it very much.

His advertisers have left and his readership numbers, which were greatly exaggerated in the first place, are WAY down. His endless whining about Walmart declined somewhat, but his Walmart blog is long gone.

He's slipped into utter irrelevance because of us and it kills him.

Now people are asking him about us.

But our job's still not over..
Here at PutnamLIES.com, we promise to continue to report the truth even if some loudmouth douchebag whines and cries about it. He was used to being able to do whatever he wanted without question. PutnamLIES.com will continue to call him on his unethical behavior and illegal practices, even as he continues to stalk Girl of Words and continues to embarrass himself with his bogus vendettas and accusations.

Readership and support for PutnamLIES.com continues to rise. Halburn and PutnumLive continues to embarass themselves.

Anytime a future employer Googles his name, they'll be able to find this site and see the truth about him. In fact the number one Google result for the word Halburn is a page that contains his mental evaluation.

Someday in the not too distant future, a little boy will be able to see just what kind of asshole his daddy really is.

The internet is forever. This site and the information on it will follow Hallburn around until the day he dies. Which can't come soon enough for us.

We'd also like to thank all our loyal readers, our correspondents Harry Stamper and Dolemite and the other members of the Trash Bloggers Alliance: Girl of Words, Tyler Hollywood, Lee, Lenny, Tybois and all the rest. We couldn't do what we do without the help and input of our readers.

Our work here is not done. Our output may have slowed but that's only because we have forced the other publisher to alter the way he does business.

We are not going away.

We'll be all around in the dark. We'll be everywhere.

Wherever you can look; wherever he's smeared someone because they won't submit to his demands - we'll be there. Wherever Hallburn's pickin' on a woman - we'll be there. When he harasses people at their workplace - we'll be there.

And when people laugh and clap their hands when they hear he's leaving, we'll be there, too.



We're watching you, Hallburn. The all seeing eye never blinks.



PutnamLIES.com will be here one day longer than Hallburn and his cluttered opinion blog.

What's in store for the next year? Only Halburn's behavior can determine that.

But, keep watching PutnamLIES.com for a revealing new series of articles.

Hallburn Gets His Panties In A Wad At 6:15 a.m.

Halburn Attacks, Steals Images From Contractor's Site


Halburn's idyllic life of fucking off was apparently disturbed Tuesday morning by people who actually work for a living.
And since he's too much of a pussy to write about meaningless shit like this in his humorous Walmart blog, he published his latest screed on his opinion blog like it was news.

The workers, from Retention Pond Services in Wilmington NC, are working on the drainage system for the Walmart access road. Their website features copyrighted photographs of idyllic, peaceful scenes which Halburn immediately stole to illustrate his article.
And being completely without ethics, he once again neglected to tell his 29 readers that HE is the Walmart neighbor that he is writing about.

He first fired off an email to Hurricane Mayor Scott Edwards who, if he's smart, has any Halburn emails filtered straight to the shitcan.

Then, at 6:15 am, the mongoloid actually thought he'd get an answer if he called the company's offices. If his past practices are any clue, he continued to call them over and over until someone answered and told him to go pound sand.

Last week he was complaining that the crew had part of the access road blocked, this week he's complaining about something called "excessing" noise.

Just when in the hell are they supposed to do this work, Hallburn? The earlier they start, the earlier they finish. If they would have done this during middle of the night you would have been out there bitching, calling them rude and inconsiderate.

Most people have to get up and go to work in the morning and are gone all day, so someone working doesn't bother them. But we guess you sleep in and get up later to ship your kid off to daycare so you can sit around the house all day in your underwear and jack off.

We thought you had an important job teaching the thugs at one of the worst performing middle schools in Kanawha County. What happened to that? What happened to that Fortune 50 job that you were bragging about getting? Don't you have to get up early for those?

You want common sense fatboy?
Common sense says you don't continually whine about something that you're not going to change.

INVESTIGATIVE REPORT

HALBURN WHINES ABOUT CANCELED P.C.D.A. MEETING

Despite Horrible Economy

With America and Putnam County fighting through the worst recession in the last 70 years, businesses aren't lining up to open up anywhere, much less in Putnam County.
Halburn seems to think that the PCDA is responsible for filling every business vacancy in the county.
PutnamLIES.com thinks Halburn is so desperate for his "exclusive" stories to be proven true that he is trying to deflect attention away from his unsubstantiated publishing.

As for the Denny's and SuperplayUSA that fatsack announced over two years ago? PutnamLIES.com will break this news.

They're not coming.

The company that was going to build the Denny's went bankrupt, so good luck with that.

The SuperplayUSA story that he claims he "broke" two years ago was actually broken by WV Media in 2007.

That project is just another victim of the poor economy, because one of the properties that the PCDA is actively marketing is the very piece of land that the entertainment complex was to occupy.
Yeah, the land next to Home Depot has been construction-ready for more than a decade, yet no one has built there.
Why?
Because, like Halburn's 2nd wife's house, the asshats that own the land are asking too much for it.

None of this is anything the PCDA can do anything about.

Contrary to the way Halburn likes to do business, the PCDA can't strongarm tenants into moving into empty storefronts in the county.

You would think if Halburn has such great ideas and is so all fired sure that everyone agrees with his positions that he'd be in overdrive to open a business or run for office. You would expect that.

But he won't.

Because he knows that he'd be a failure as a businessman and made to look like the fool he is during a campaign and soundly defeated in an election. Another public humiliation is something that he can't tolerate.

From the Lincoln Journal to the Point Pleasant Register to Best Buy to Wackenhut, from Charleston Newspapers to WPDE to Sitel to Comfort Inns and Suites, Halburn has been fired from them all. 25 jobs in 25 years is not a stellar employment record.
A guy that can't hold a regular job doesn't have any business lecturing anyone about curing unemployment.

The PCDA has an office that's open every day. Businesses know how to contact them if they need help.
Holding a meeting just for the sake of holding a meeting does no one any good. It's a waste of time and resources.
Halburn is just upset that a canceled meeting deprives him of the chance to harangue the board about buying his second wife's house at an inflated price.

So while Halburn is taking it easy pursuing his hobby of running a cluttered advertising shopper, Putnam County's population continues to grow and its residents have one of the highest median incomes in the state, even as the national economy continues to contract. In addition, Putnam County has the 7th lowest unemployment rate in the state.

Don't expect Halburn to change his ways. All we can hope to do is expose his rantings for what they are: insane.

Land Give Away Proposal Is Totally Irresponsible

GOVERNMENT NEWS

P.C.D.A. PASSES ON LUDICROUS PARK/JOB PROPOSAL
You Going To Donate Your House And Land Too?  


Halburn has once again brought up his most ludicrous idea yet in his latest scheme to profit from the Walmart property .
The PCDA should GIVE AWAY property.

The property in question is the 6.36 acre site up the hill above the Hurricane Marketplace.
PutnamLIES.com first wrote of this inane proposal in April.
There's only an acre and a half of usable land on the property, barely enough to put in a real football field, much less parking for the people that would use it.

The view from PutnamLIES.com Air-1

Plus, donating the land to the county takes it off the tax rolls forever. Causing the taxpayers of Putnam County to pay twice.

The PCDA's mission is to attract businesses and help develop properties, not give away land bought with public money.

Halburn would be calling for the heads of any other government officials that would try to do something like this with any other property.
But, since it's his idea and, in his mind, he stands to profit from this plan, he brings it up.

Halburn won't consider the idea of giving away HIS land or even selling it at a reasonable price but then he turns around and demands that Scott Edwards give away his land.

Once again, Halburn's vendetta against Mayor Edwards has blinded him to the fact that Edwards is but one member of a 21 person board. How is Edwards responsible for this?

Our solution is for the county to seize his second wife's land under eminent domain.
Using the county's own tax estimate, the house is worth $89,100. That's the fair market value. The county pays her the full amount the land is assessed for.
Is seizing the land for the greater good of the community? You bet your ass it is if it gets him out of town. Consider it urban renewal of a blighted property.
It's a win-win for everyone.

In addition to his lack of contact with reality, it's obvious that Halburn has no grasp of how business works.

Non profit businesses CAN make a profit on anything they do. Whether it's selling widgets or a piece of land. They just can't show a profit at the end of the year.
Halburn's lack of understanding of this simple fact just shows his ignorance.

His grasp of construction matters is equally lacking. The top of that hill isn't fill, it's the top of a hill that was bulldozed away. The flat area was made there.
But, many of West Virginia's businesses are built on fill. The Dunbar Plaza shopping center in Dunbar is built on a landfill.

People aren't building or opening businesses because the land is isolated or "fill" land.
People aren't building or opening businesses because of the economy, stupid.
It's the worst it's been for the last 30 years.

The board member that promises to bring this idea up in the next meeting is doing so simply to get Halburn to stop calling him every 5 minutes and whining about it. There will be no serious discussion of a land transfer.The denial to bring up this hare brained scheme is a credit to the responsible leadership of the PCDA. The taxpayers of Putnam County deserve no less.