Local reaction: Businesses close, schools open

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, September 11, 2001

Early reports after today’s terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.

Tuesday, September 11, 2001

Early reports after today’s terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., prompted some area businesses to close in fear.

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In unconfirmed reports, chemical plants in West Virginia’s Kanawha Valley, including Union Carbide, shut down. Companies in neighboring Ashland and Huntington, including a West Virginia federal courthouse, also shutdown.

Schools in Lawrence County would remain open, county Superintendent Harold Shafer said this morning.

Shafer had spoken with several school district personnel, all of whom decided that school buildings were the safest place for children, considering many parents were at work.