Wednesday Personalities Reflect on Shirley Temple Birthday Plans
New York AP reports Shirley Temple, living in Woodside California, has no cable yet but feels honored as American Movie Classics plans an eight film birthday tribute. Temple and others note omissions like The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer and she discusses future autobiography topics.
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Black
Woodside
Calif
Rebecca
Sunnybrook Farm
Temple
Ghana
Czechoslovakia
New York
Shirley Temple
Baggy pants trap drug suspect in crack cocaine haul
Robert Webb 24 of Charleston was stopped for ajar car door and marijuana suspicion. His baggy pants fell during search exposing about 20 racks of crack cocaine. He was charged with possession with intent to deliver crack and marijuana possession, released on 26000 dollar bond.
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Harleston
Robert Webb
Webb
Pat Epperhart
Epperhart
Charleston
County Republicans to host three gubernatorial candidates
The May 14 Lincoln Day Dinner will feature three gubernatorial hopefuls. Podesta, Mercer County Republicans list David McKinley Jon McBride and Cecil Underwood as speakers. Tickets and reservations are available by calling 384-7632 425-3104 or 327-5377.
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Cans
Podesta
Mercer County Republic
David McKinley
Jon McBride
Cecil Underwood
Sunny skies and mild temperatures across multiple counties
Weather summary reports sunny today with highs in the 60s to around 70 and tonight partly cloudy with lows in the upper 30s to lower 40s. A-6 weather package notes tip line: Cellular One number toll free for Mercer, Tazewell, Bland, Monroe, Summers, Fayette, and Greenbrier counties in West Virginia.
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Mercer, Tazewell
Bland
Monroe
Summers
Fayette
Greenbrier Counties
Fire at Chernobyl area villagers ten years after disaster
Fire raced through five villages in the Chernobyl exclusion zone near the plant ten years after the 1986 accident. Wind carried radioactive particles though monitors reported only a slight increase. No injuries or danger to the plant were noted, though homes were abandoned and residents mourned nearby graves.
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Kiev
Ukraine
Chernobyl
Nikolai Komshensky
Nuclear Regulatory Agency
Bela
Rus
Russia
Tovsty Lis
City examines city vehicle home use by employees
BLUEFIELD City Manager Bill Looney was asked by the City Board of Directors to evaluate how many municipal employees take city vehicles home. He will report in three weeks. He confirmed some employees routinely do so and are on call. Departments include street, sanitary, housing, police, fire, detectives, and K-9 and DARE units.
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Bluefield
City Board of Directors
Bill Looney
Looney
Webster Gilbreath
Joe Long
Street Department
Sanitary Board
Housing Authority
WVU President and Wife Attend Four Seasons Club Event
WVU President David C. Hardesty Jr and his wife Susan spoke to a 100 plus audience at Fincastle Country Club hosted by Friends of WVU Four Seasons Country. Hardesty outlined WVU’s growth into the 21st century noting enrollment above 20 000 and his and his wife’s WVU roots.
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Four Seasons Country
WVU
David C. Hardesty Jr
Fincastle Country Club
Hardesty
Susan
Gaston Caperton
Board of Trustees
University System of West Virginia
Free day Landfill opens gates to aid spring cleanup
GREEN VALLEY The Mercer County Landfill opens gates for Spring Cleanup Day on April 27 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Residential customers may bring one regular pickup load of free items including appliances furniture brush leaves grass and construction debris though shingles and commercial waste are excluded and some items will incur charges.
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Green Valley
Mercer County
Jerry Haynes
Haynes
Tom's Mountain land deeded to McDowell County
Pocahontas Land Company transferred 23 acres on Tom's Mountain near Mount View High School to the McDowell County Redevelopment Authority. The site, once eyed for a wood kiln, is described as flat and suitable for economic development. The board will decide whether to use all or part of the land for county nonprofit economic efforts.
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Tom’s Mountain
Pocahontas
McDowell County
Welch
McDowell County Redevelopment Authority
Pocahontas Land Company
Norman Clark
MCRA
Mount View High School
Clark
Ernie Hayes
Pocahontas Land
Hayes
Gordon Lambert
McDowell County Commission
Bob Musser
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Abby Sence
Turkey
Onitsha Trigg
Amelia Hairston
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Daily Telegraph
Luefield, Va
Friends of West Virginia University
Charles Owens
Stan
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