John Unger

State funds sought for airport terminal By DAVE McMILLION / Staff Writer, Charles Town MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport officials are looking to state lawmakers for help in securing funds for a new $1.2 million terminal and administration building at the airport. Not only does the current terminal need to be replaced because of its deteriorating condition, but a new structure would better accommodate any increase in air traffic in the future, Sen. John Unger, D-Berkeley, said Thursday.

Unger looks to public for support in redistricting fight By KIMBERLY YAKOWSKI kimy@herald-mail.com SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. - West Virginia State Sen. John Unger spent Saturday afternoon explaining his opposition to the new map of legislative districts and asking the public whether he should take his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Unger made stops at Charles Town City Hall, Webber's Store on Mission Road and finally at the Shepherdstown Men's Club, where about 18 people gathered to listen to the senator.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A state senator suggested Thursday that James Rumsey Technical Institute near Hedgesville, W.Va., be considered as a site for a community college in Berkeley County. cont. from news page Shepherd College is considering moving its Community and Technical College to the Martinsburg area, and James Rumsey would be an ideal location, said John Unger, D-Berkeley. James Rumsey has teleconferencing capabilities, which would allow the community college to receive courses from schools around the world, Unger said.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A state senator from Berkeley County is proposing a program be instituted to help preserve agricultural land in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. [cont. from front page ] Using a portion of $35 million in federal money available for farmland protection, Sen. John Unger's proposal would set up "protective easements" on local farms to keep them from being developed. Any farmer who agreed to participate in the Voluntary Farmland Protection Act program would sell the government a permanent protective easement that would prevent development on the property, said Unger, D-Berkeley.

By BRYN MICKLE / Staff Writer, Martinsburg photo: YVETTE MAY / staff photographer MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - The search for democracy led a small group of Croatians to Martinsburg on Monday for a few tips on bringing the democratic process to war-torn Bosnia. Seven of the 75 main opposition parties in Bosnia have sent seven representatives and an interpreter to the United States as part of an American program to develop more political equality, West Virginia Sen. John Unger, D-Berkeley, said.

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. - State lawmakers finished their 60-day session Saturday night, and there were victories and defeats on issues affecting the Eastern Panhandle. Sens. Herb Snyder, D-Jefferson, and John Unger, D-Berkeley, worked to pass two bills that would generate more money for new school construction in the Panhandle, but the efforts failed, Unger said. Snyder and Unger initially proposed allowing local counties to keep any new tax revenue from such development as new shopping centers and use it for school construction.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - State Senate candidate John Unger has an ambitious plan afoot to win his first bid for public office. Starting this morning in Paw Paw, W.Va., Unger, 29, a Democrat, said he plans to cover Berkeley, Morgan and Jefferson counties by foot in an effort to build a platform to represent his potential constituents. "We want to listen to the issues and concerns of the people throughout the region," said Unger, who said he'll do that by going door-to-door in the various towns and communities and talking one-on-one with people at town hall meetings.

Unger running for Senate MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A Rhodes Scholar will be hitting the campaign trail in an effort to unseat Sen. Harry Dugan this fall. John Unger of Martinsburg filed Tuesday to run in the May 12 Democratic primary for the 16th District seat. The 29-year-old economic development and trade consultant becomes the third candidate for the seat, along with Dugan, R-Berkeley, and former Berkeley County Commissioner Howard Strauss, another Republican. "I want to give something back to the community for the opportunities it has given me in my life," said Unger, who is a member and first president of the West Virginia International Trade Development Council.

By DON AINES Staff Writer, Martinsburg MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - When Hong Kong's stock market crashed in October, it triggered a worldwide panic in financial markets, but every crisis presents an opportunity, according to John Unger. "The Chinese characters for crisis translate, literally, into danger and opportunity," said the president of the West Virginia International Trade Development Council before leaving last Sunday for the Far East. During a trip to Hong Kong and China that will last through the holidays, the Martinsburg man said he will try to build on ties he made during a trip earlier this year and to seek out new opportunities for the Eastern Panhandle.

By DON AINES Staff Writer MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - John Unger stood on the balcony of a Calcutta church, his camera aimed at the door where he expected the world's most revered woman to emerge. "I felt this tap on my shoulder and turned around. It was Mother Teresa," he recalled of his first encounter with the mother superior of the Missionaries of Charity. "Son, quit this nonsense and get in there and pray," were her first words to him. Unger, 28, president of the West Virginia International Trade Development Council, worked with Mother Teresa's order for six months in 1990.