Extras casting call for Primal Fear draws hundreds in Bluefield
Hundreds of hopefuls, including Rick Smith of Princeton, attend a Bluefield Holiday Inn casting for the Richard Gere film Primal Fear. Casting teams plan major Chicago shoots, then Keystone West Virginia, possibly late April or May, seeking real town characters and coal miners for Crickside, Kentucky. Local students assist. pay for extras averages 50 dollars daily. filming may exceed 12 hours.
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Luefield
Bluefield
Richard Gere
Chicago
McDowell County
Keystone
Regina Prokop
Spera
Karen Peake
Bluefield College
BC Communications
Peake and
Prokop
Jackie Oblinger
Spaghetti Dinner, Meetings, and Community Reception Planned
Sunday schedule lists a Bluewell Lions Club spaghetti dinner at Frankie’s La Salute in Bluewell for Light Conservation, $5 adults $2.50 children. Sons of Italy meet at Roma II in Princeton at 2 pm. Bramwell Woman’s Club hosts a firefighter reception at Bramwell VFD 3 to 5 pm Tuesday. April 11 at 7:30 pm Project Graduation meeting at Pike View High School. Weather calls for partly cloudy with highs 70s to 80s and tonight mid-40s to mid-50s.
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Bluewell Lions Club
Bluewell
Pike View High School
Richlands chamber starts four day membership blitz
The Richlands Area Chamber of Commerce will launch a four day telemarketing membership drive Monday aiming to reach over 700 businesses. Executed from the chamber office through Thursday April 13, the initiative seeks to boost economic health and opportunities in Richlands Cedar Bluff and Tazewell County with a history dating to 1953.
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Richlands
Richlands Area
Cedar Bluff
Chamber
Branton
Bluefield teen charged with murder in slaying of another teen
A 16 year old youth is charged with murder in Bluefield after a Saturday shooting that killed 17 year old Steven Bowling on Wayne Street. Bowling died from two gunshot wounds after being taken to Princeton Community Hospital. Police cite an argument as a possible trigger and continue to search for the weapon.
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Bluefield
Steven Lawrence Bowling
Wayne Street
Princeton Community Hospital
Wayne
Lincoln Streets
Si Side
Mike Poe
Poe
Bluefield High School
History of Keystone West Virginia booklet summary
Bluefield police uncovered a 1912 booklet titled History of Keystone West Virginia subtitled Sodom and Gomorrah of Today. It presents a moralistic view of Keystone then known for Keystone and the Tenderloin District Cinder Bottom with houses of ill repute.
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Cinder Bottom
Eystone
Erie West
Tombstone
Deadwood
Dodge City
Hollywood
West Virginia
Keystone
Bluefield
Kelly Walls
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Sara English
Kathryn Belcher
Jenny Gaskins
Dena Monroe
Danny Grabeel
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Roma Ill
Bramwell Woman's Club
Bramwell Volunteer Fire Department
Abby
Doctor
Charles Owens
Daily Telegraph
Bluefield City Park
National
Society
Bill Archer
Europe
Cherry St. Walls
Cindie
Gulded
John Henry
Big Bend
Hinton
Northfork
A.L. Calhoun
Miss Lizzy
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