Costs to repair Oakvale and Central Junior High rise over 2 million
A Mercer County Board of Education report shows Central Junior High and Oakvale High and Elementary would require about 2.14 million dollars for major repairs to meet Fire Marshal standards, with Central Junior High at 299,284 and Oakvale at 249,192. Other individual school costs and site assessments follow, including land and site logistics for Seaway and vocational locations as potential new facilities.
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Mercer County Board of Education
Central Junior
Oakvale
SEM Partners
Central Junior High
Bluefield
Oakvale High
Athens High
Bramwell
Kegley
Knob
Lashmeet
Matoaka
Melrose
Memorial
Mercer
Mercer County Vocational Technical Center
Montcalm
Park
Preston
Princeton Board weighs sites for new school in town
Mercer County Board of Education discussed two sites Seaway Container property off Wickham Avenue and adjacent to the Vocational Technical Center for a new Princeton school. The panel also unanimously approved a $1,150,000 settlement with the insurer of Princeton Junior High School, destroyed in a December 1977 fire.
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Seaway
Vocational
East Princeton
Middleton
Wickham Avenue
Rogers Street
Appalachian Power Company
Princeton
Princeton Junior High
Mercer County Board
Stever Middleton
SEM Partners
Vocational Technical Center
Insurance Company
Clinton D. Lilly
Harold Tomchin
Mercer County Board Clears Personnel Actions Across Schools
The Mercer County Board approved retirements for cooks Evalyne Tickle Hiley Faye Jenkins and others, a resignation from Janet Bishop, multiple leave of absence requests, reassignments including Meredith Powers and Normalee Clark, several promotions in cook and teacher roles, a transfer of Billie Bailey to Federal Project Coordinator, principal and staff moves among Princeton Whitethorn Lashmeet Wade and other schools, and new employments across cooks maintenance and teaching staff plus a speech therapist.
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Cooks
Faye Kelly
Cook II
Matoaka
Evalyne Tickle
Cook III
Ramsey Elementary
Hiley Faye Jenkins
Matoaka High
Mack Larue
Bluewell Elementary
Cook
Janet Bishop
Whitethorn Elementary
Patricia Coleman
Bluefield High
Kenny Mandeville
Princeton Junior High
Alice A. Heath
Athens
Meredith M. Powers
Whitethorn
Normalee Clark
Spanishburg High
Glenwood
Connie Burress
Ceres
Margaret French
Billie Bailey
ESEA
Robert Belcher
Princeton High
Montcalm
Michael McPherson
Wade
Thorn
Everette Gravely
Lashmeet
Margaret J. Walthall
Mercer
William Sherwood
Brushfork
Hill Awarded State Grant For History Preservation Script
Associate professor Raymond T. Hill of Concord College has received a grant from the Humanities Foundation of West Virginia to prepare a television script on humanities in preservation policies. The project, in cooperation with the Concord College Foundation, supports a state program of NEH and aims to boost public and scholarly discussion of preservation and cultural heritage in West Virginia.
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Concord College
Raymond T. Hill
Humanities Foundation of
West Virginia
Concord College Foundation
Hill
Concord
National Endownment For the Humanities
The
West
Old West at Dry Gulch Junction and Big Walker Lookout
A travel pitch describes Dry Gulch Junction revealing an old west scene and Big Walker Lookout offering panoramic views. Directions point to Bland exit from I 77 then nine miles to the sights.
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Dry Gulch Junction
Big Walker Lookout
Bland
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Central Jr. High
Ray Lynch
Daily Telegraph
Bluewell
Camp Creek
Central
Central Point
Cumberland Heights
Fairview
Glenwood Training
Ramsey
Silver Springs
Spanishburg
Sun Valley
SEM
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
Lilly
Princeton High School
PHS
Board
Dorothy Hurley
Irene Witt
Luella Shrewsbury
Vernie Mae Reed
Stephen D. Lilly
Iris M. Roseman
Concord Child Development Center
Donna J. McCloud
Wade Elementary
Debra Hill Gochenour
Montcalm Elementary
Janet M. Laird
Bluefield Maup
Bulletin Board
Morgan Whittaker
C. Lee Harman
C. G. Yost
J. Otis Bowling
Fletcher R. Browning
Nelson Linkous and Sons
Nelson Jr
Richard
God
With
Nelson Linkous Sr
Greenview
Maryland Bluefield
W.va
Charles H. Daugherty
Humanities Foundations
Institute
Moore's
Bert Callaham
Princeton Avenue
Lon Plush
Ano
Bugs
Sor
General Electric
J.V
Hoover
Kroehler
Cape Cod
Broyhill and
Broyhill
Sunrise
Kammers
Bassett
Oriental
Bernhardt
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