Minor grease fire prompts evacuation at Hardee’s
A grease fire at Hardee’s on Bluefield Avenue forced evacuation of the restaurant on Monday afternoon. Fire Chief Gerald Steele said a faulty upper limit switch on a grease heating unit caused overheated grease to ignite. Staff used extinguishers. no injuries were reported and the building suffered mainly food loss and fryer damage. The blaze was controlled quickly and reopening was expected within two hours.
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Bluefield
Hardee
Bluefield Avenue
Gerald Steele
Steele
Will
Teaching award honors WVU otolaryngology educator
On June 20 Michael K Hurst D D S M D an assistant professor at West Virginia University Ruby Memorial Hospital Morgantown received the Otolaryngology Teaching Award for his notable work educating residents in the WVU department of otolaryngology head and neck surgery. He is a 1970 Princeton High School graduate and WVU dentistry alum 1977 who later earned his medical degree in 1988 before completing his otolaryngology residency and joining WVU Hospital staff.
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Michael K. Hurst
West Virginia University
Ruby Memorial Hospital
Morgantown
WVU
Hurst
Princeton High School
WVU School of Dentistry
Marshall University School of Medicine
WVU Hospital
Local ASL draws diverse grads to Grundy campus
Buchanan County native John Rife and classmates from Florida, Kentucky, and Lebanon join the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy. They praise the program despite challenges, citing proximity, affordable tuition, and family ties to law as major motivators.
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Buchanan County
John ‘Rife
Virginia Tech
ASL
Rife
Grundy Jr. High
Maxwell Gayle
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Bluefield
Gayle
University of Miami
Grundy
Melanie Fields
Elkhorn City
Fields
Nick Compton
Lebanon
Compton
Town council member touts Dateline NBC exposure after audit
Brenda Robinnette, newly elected town council member, remains hopeful as a state audit reveals the town faced a $17,000 bank balance with checks cashed and later reversed for insufficient funds. Questions linger over $78,000 in B and O taxes from a bridge project and missing funds. A country festival drew about 1,000 attendees, doubling the town population and raising roughly $8,100 for town proceeds.
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A-1
Brenda Robinnette
Robinnette
Tax Department
Dale Adkins
B&o
Preliminary work starts on McDowell County school
Preliminary site work is underway for McDowell County’s first new school in 19 years. The Sandy River Middle School will serve grades 6 7 and 8 from across the Sandy River District and is slated to open in September 1998 pending bids and construction timelines.
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Roberts
McDowell County
Mount View High School
Welch
Kimball
Fall River
Board of Education
Judgment favors city in age discrimination suit
BLUEFIELD The city of Bluefield was awarded a summary judgment at a pre trial conference in a suit filed by former city employee Bud Hager alleging age discrimination. Hager, once a code enforcement inspector, was reassigned to the recreation department and later laid off.
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Bluefield
U.S. District Court
City Code Enforcement and Recreation Department
Bud Hager
John Feuchtenberger
Hager
AlphaStar Satellite TV Service Shuts Down
AlphaStar ceased operations effective Aug 11 and will not relaunch. Current customers lose programming as assets are pursued by buyers. Turner Vision layoffs follow AlphaStar shutdown, with Cindy Sheets noting AlphaStar was a small part of their business and customer service reps being laid off immediately.
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AlphaStar
North America
Directv
Primestar
Dish Technologies
Turner Vision
Bluefield
Cindy Sheets
Drema Shireman
Public Auction Of Mobile Home In Mercer County
By order of the Circuit Court of Mercer County a public auction will be held on Sunday in September 1997 at 10:00 a.m. on the courthouse steps. Items include a 1991 Titan 14 by 70 mobile home on 2.89 acres off Eads Mill Road near Camp Creek exit. Inspection by appointment. terms cash or pre-approved check. sale subject to court approval. Special Commissioner Kimber R. Warner signed August 1, 1997.
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Circuit Court of
Mercer County
Titan
Eads Mill Road
Camp Creek
John Meadows
Leah Meadows
Kimber R. Warner
Kenneth F. Wray
David M. Katz
Paris K. Belcher, Jr
West Virginia
Princeton
Cumberland Road
Bluefield
Lot
Nannie Bertie Yost
State Road Commission of
County Commission
Irvin Wilson Butt, Jr
Martha Hurley Butt
Kenneth E. Wray
Rayco, Ltd
Princeton Avenue
Dexter Street
East End
Begin
Rayo, Ltd
Kenneth Wray
Ronald Lee Sarver
Judith K. Sarver
Mercer County Board of Education
Mercer County Technical Education Center
Bill Sherwood
Hobart
Koch
Star
Com
Bakers Continental
Sears
Cincinnati Hydraulic
Mercer Street
Bobby Dunn
Apple Computer
James W. Akers
CPPO
Honaker Avenue
Final Settlement Notices for Wills Deceased Executrixes
Notice of final settlement in Mercer County WV lists Hazel Wills and Mary Dixon deceased with executors Charlene Coy and Virginia Logan. Co executors Gloria Asbury and Hubert Terry. Report to Mercer County Commission around August 28 1997 open for examination. Filing details include Fiduciary Commissioner Harold Brewster Jr and clerk in Tazewell Circuit Court dated July 16 1997 for Charles Mitchem Myrtle Beach SC.
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Jackson Belcher
L.R. Belcher
HH. Belcher
Gladys Belcher
S. E. Hambrick
Mercer County
West Virginia
Kelli L. Harshbarger
Stone, Feuchtenberger & Barringer
P. O. Box
Princeton
Wilma F. Grubb
Wendi Lawson
Public Service Commission OF
Charleston
TCN Accutes
Comhuunication, Inc
West Palm Beach
Florida
Commission
Brooks Street
West Via
Secretary of State
Beckley
Bluefield
Clarksburg
Elkins
Fairmont
Huntington
Keyser
Lewisburg
Logan
Martinsburg
Morgantown
Moundsville
New Cumberland
Parkersburg
Point Pleasant
Welch
Wheeling
Williamson
P.O. Box
Todd Carden
Hazel R. Wills
Charlene R. Coy
Mary L. Dixon
Virginia D. Logan
Hubert A. Terry
Gloria Y. Asbury
Mercer County Commission
Harold D. Brewster, JR
Virginia
Circuit Court
County of Tazewell
Charles William Mitchem
Myrtle Beach
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New McDowell School
Charles Owens
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William Allen Marquis
Village Green
David L. Kirby
Margaret L. Kirby
K Frazier Compton
Linda (Compton) Dillon
L. R. Belcher
H. H. Belcher
Mary Lynn Wells Mitchem
Tazewell County
Thomas P. Walk
P.d. P.O
Tazewell
James E. Blevins
Beny B. Vanhoozer
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