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(from left) Beckley-Raleigh County Transportation Authority chairman Bill Baker, Senator John D. Rockefeller's assistant Jennifer Pennington, Senator Joe Manchin's assistant Mike Browning, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin, U.S. Congressman Nick Rahall, West Virginia Department of Transportation Secretary Paul Mattox and Beckley mayor Bill O'Brien pull up shovels full of dirt as they break ground on the 3rd and final stage of the Beckley Bypass, or Z-way, Wednesday afternoon at the construction site just off of Stanaford Road.