Hiring Woes Return as Post-Pandemic Job Shortage Persists
Signs reading Now Hiring pop up outside restaurants, but applicants rarely follow through. The COVID-19 era left many unemployed, and while restrictions ease, eateries struggle to fill openings as interview no-shows and low follow-up rates persist across the industry.
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Hillbilly Farms Opens Indoor Hydroponic Store in Brushfork
Doug Lusk combines science and nutrition to run Hillbilly Farms offering hydroponic produce at Airport Square Shopping Center in Brushfork. The store features year round fresh produce and free range eggs with plans to expand the system using gravity fed water tubes and clay pebble growing media.
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Doug Lusk
Hillbilly Farms
Brushfork
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After 30 years Lambert disappearance remains under investigation
Mercer County investigators and Brenda Gail Lambert’s family press for clues in the 1992 vanishing from her Bluewell home. The 22 year old mother of two disappeared on her son’s first birthday night with few belongings. five and a half months later friend Mark Anthony Cook vanished in the early hours of January 14, 1993.
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Mercer County Sheriff’s Department
Mooney to retire as publisher at Bluefield papers
Randy Mooney of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph and The Register-Herald in Beckley will retire May 30 after a 42 year newspaper career. His successor is Tricia Johnston of Goshen Indiana News, who will also publish West Virginia Times West Virginia in Fairmont. CNHI owns the papers.
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Fairmont
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Alabama
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