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Despite having questionable educational qualifications, a candidate for magistrate in Gilmer County is on this May's primary election ballot.

Four candidates -- Carol Wolfe, Alton Skinner, Bill Stalnaker and Mickey Metz -- are seeking the Democratic nomination for one of the two seats for magistrate. Wolfe currently holds one of the seats, and the other is open following the announcement of incumbent Bob Minigh he would not be seeking re-election.

Of the four candidates, three -- Wolfe, Skinner and Stalnaker -- all have at least a high school diploma or GED, the minimum educational qualifications required by state law to run for magistrate. Additionally, Wolfe has a bachelor's degree from Glenville State College in social work, and a master's degree from Marshall University in counseling.

Metz, the incumbent sheriff who is constitutionally barred from seeking a third successive term, provided the Gilmer Clerk's Office a diploma he received on Nov. 23 from Adison High School. The diploma contains signatures of four people purporting to be AHS' president, superintendant, secretary of the school board and principal.

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CHARLESTON - A Gilmer County man's lawsuit against Glenville State College for injuries he sustained at a motel the College owns is slated for trial later this summer.

Kanawha Circuit Judge Carrie Webster has set Aug. 20 as the trial date in the case of Dale J. Norman v. Glenville State College, et. al. In his suit filed Oct. 4, 2010, Norman, 53, a Glenville resident, alleges he sustained third-degree burns to his feet when he attempted to take a bath two years earlier at the Conrad Motel.

According to the College's Web site, the Glenville State College Housing Corporation, a non-profit arm of the College that aids in helping it acquire and construct property, purchased the 42-room building on July 1, 2008, from Susie Kidd Shipe, and her uncle, Jack Conrad, whose family first started a restaurant in 1926, and expanded their business into the motel three years later. According to the Gilmer County Assessor's Office, GSCHC purchased the motel for $500,000.

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Picture: This motel in downtown Glenville is where Dale Norman alleges he suffered third degree burns when taking a bath during an overnight stay in Oct. 2008. A lawsuit he has against the motel's owners, Glenville State College and the Glenville State College Housing Corporation, is scheduled for August.