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8 unusual facts about Pineville


Barleyjuice

Formed originally in 1998, the group began as a side project for musicians Keith Swanson and Kyf Brewer, who met as bagpipers in the Loch Rannoch Pipes & Drums of Pineville, Pennsylvania.

L. B. Henry

A businessman in Pineville, Henry served on the Rapides Parish Police Jury (equivalent to county commission in other states) from, first, 1956–1960, and, again, from 1968-1992.

Long family

Floyd W. Smith, Jr. (1932-2010), Mayor of Pineville, Louisiana 1966–1970, second cousin of Speedy O. Long.

Michael B Shepherd

Michael B. Shepherd (born 1977) is the John and Allie Fogleman Assistant Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana as well as professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at the Caskey School of Divinity.

Para-Ordnance

In January 2009, it was announced that the U.S. headquarters for Para-Ordance's U.S. subsidiary (Para USA) would be set up in Pineville, North Carolina.

Pineville, Missouri

It is part of the FayettevilleSpringdaleRogers, AR-MO Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Pineville, North Carolina

Pineville is a suburban town in the southernmost portion of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina situated in the Waxhaws district between Charlotte, North Carolina and Rock Hill, South Carolina.

Simon W. Tudor

Simon Woodson Tudor (November 5, 1887—May 10, 1956) was a prominent educator, businessman, church and civic leader, and philanthropist in the central Louisiana city of Pineville in the first half of the twentieth century.


B. Dexter Ryland

Earlier in the year, Ryland issued a controversial ruling regarding the selection by the board of trustees of the new president of Louisiana College, a Baptist-affiliated institution in Pineville.

Bell County High School

Bell County High School is one of three public high schools in Bell County, Kentucky and the only one in the county's school district (the other two, Middlesboro and Pineville, are operated by city-based "independent" districts).

Billy Montgomery

On January 28, 2012, Montgomery, along with the late Fred Baden, former mayor of Pineville, and the late Adras LaBorde, former managing editor of the Alexandria Daily Town Talk, was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.

Carl Gunter, Jr.

Gunter was defeated by fellow Democrat Rick L. Farrar of Pineville, 7,729 (57 percent) to Gunter's 5,929 (43 percent), exactly 1,800 votes.

Charles F. Buck

He graduated from the high school of New Orleans in 1861, and then attended Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy near Pineville, Louisiana.

Fred Baden

Mayor Deslatte invited the Louisiana legislative auditor, Dan Kyle, a Republican, to inspect Pineville's municipal books.

Irvington, Virginia

One of its graduates, Claybrook Cottingham, was later its assistant principal and subsequently in his long academic career the president of both Louisiana College in Pineville and Louisiana Tech University in Ruston.

Marcus R. Clark

As the Division E state Fourth Judicial District Court judge in Ouachita Parish, Clark defeated fellow Republican attorney Jimmy Faircloth, Jr., of Pineville, a former aide to Governor Bobby Jindal, for a seat on the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Tradio

However, the name tradio has been trademarked by Simply Local Broadcasting and WRIL Pineville, Kentucky.

West Virginia Route 97

The last 20 years have brought improvements and widening to the road, and it could soon lose much traffic to the Coalfields Expressway, a highway that will link the Turnpike to Pineville, Welch, and Buchanan County, Virginia.

State Route 97 connects U.S. Highway 52 in the western end of Wyoming County with the county seat of Pineville and goes on to State Route 54 in Maben.

WMYL

In 2006 Ron Meredith and M&M Broadcasting purchased WXJB, WFXY and WANO in Middlesboro, KY, Harrogate, TN and Pineville, KY, immediately spun off WFXY and WANO and changed the call letters to WMYL branded the station as Merle FM and moved it to Knoxville, TN licensed to Halls Cross Roads.


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