Firefighters Protest Plan to Merge Public Safety Roles
Bluefield firefighters fiercely oppose a plan to combine police and fire units and replace the police chief with a public safety director. They accuse city officials of excluding them from talks and cite bidirectional confrontations at city board meetings.
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Luefield
Thems
Bluefield Fire Department
Richard Aliff
Union
International Association of Fire Fighters
Rusty Holcomb
Partment
Curtis Thompson
James Turner
Bluefield
Aliff
Bluefield Board of Directors
Bill Looney
Mike Poe
Looney
Beirut clashes widen as Israeli blockade hits port and ambu lance killed
Israeli gunboats clamp a Beirut port blockade and an ambulance attack claims six lives on the third day of Israel’s Lebanon operation. Gen. Amnon Shahak warns the assault could last two weeks as jets, helicopters, and artillery target guerrilla hideouts. Hezbollah responds with Katyusha rockets while Lebanon reports seven rockets land in northern Israel with no injuries. An ambulance attack in Tyre wounds eight, three of them children, amid evacuations from Mansouri village.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Israel
Amnon Shahak
Shimon Peres
Hezbollah
Tyre
Graham TV special opens with car suicide clip
Sunday segment on Billy Graham shifts to a risky MTV era approach. The 77 year old preacher hosts Starting Over in dramatic cuts and interviews instead of a sermon. The program targets younger viewers, airs in over 200 countries to about 2.5 billion people. A Graham spokesman warns viewers to avoid channel surfing. Weather tips follow with a local tip line for Mercer and nearby counties.
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Billy Graham
Kurt Cobain
Larry Ross
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
Graham
MTV Generation
Everlasting symbol of sacrifices ceremony marks memorial start
Ground was broken Saturday to begin construction on a Vietnam Veterans Memorial at the West Virginia Tourist Information Center. Names of soldiers from Bland Giles Tazewell Wythe Virginia and Mercer McDowell Monroe Summers West Virginia counties will be engraved on eight stone faces. The memorial will include a fountain benches and landscaping and be wheelchair accessible. The $216000 project is funded by the West Virginia Parkways Authority Blue Gray Chapter and private donations with flags of all services and state flags flying.
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Princeton
Virginia
Bland
Giles
Tazewell
Wythe
West Virginia
Mercer
McDowell
Monroe
Summers
James A. Thomason
Blue Gray
Vietnam Veterans of America
Thomason
Ronald Benfield
Timberland drives Tazewell County Economic Outlook
Charles Owens reports that about 200000 acres of timberland, 60 percent of the county, hold potential for future economic development through hardwoods. Woodtech at Falls Mills is the leading existing operation, with several local lumber firms supplying Woodtech and West Virginia, as the county aims to expand hardwood industries per a new comprehensive plan.
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Azewell
Tazewell County
Falls Mills
Scott Nelson
Woodtech
Nelson
West Virginia
Tazewell
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Tony Barbery
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