Children’s Clinic in Bluefield Closes a Era of Care
In Bluefield the long running Bluefield Children’s Clinic closes marking the end of an era for pediatric care. Dr Thomas E Richardson who joined in 1969 says pediatrics has become highly specialized yet he aimed to treat patients as family members. Over 30 years he treated thousands from infancy to young adulthood. The clinic began in 1957 and expanded through the 1960s with multiple doctors.
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Bluefield
Thomas E. Richardson
Richardson
Children’s Clinic
William Bruck
Bluefield Sanitarium Partnership
Southside Pharmacy
Bland Street
Ralph Haynes
Carl Barger
Cumberland Road
Bland Road
Lewisburg
West Virginia University Medical School
Akron City Hospital
Akron Children’s Hospital
Elizabeth
Edward Spencer
Candidates tout health care issues in West Virginia races
West Virginia gubernatorial and congressional candidates push health care as a major campaign issue amid Medicare cutbacks and rising drug costs. Experts note voter concern and the challenge of crafting solutions for an aging, rural state with high obesity, heart disease, and cancer rates.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Kevin M. Leyden
West Virginia University
West Virginia Health Care Seen as Priority in Race
In the 2nd Congressional District race, Democratic candidate Jim Humphreys frames hospitals and health care facilities as a key challenge. He asserts Washington must address needs in West Virginia and places consumer health care reform and Medicare at the forefront amid recent polls.
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Washington
West Virginia
Jim Humphreys
Mercer County Key Part Of 20 Year Road Project
A state financed 20 year transportation study will include Mercer County among about a dozen counties. County Commission President Joe Coburn says the plan will pay off by guiding growth and funding changes in traffic signals and major projects. Dave Cole of Region One notes Raleigh and Marion counties are among the first in the state, with local input to identify problems in transportation networks.
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Princeton
Mercer
County Commission
Joe Coburn
Region One Planning and Development Council
Dave Cole
Raleigh
Marion
Cole
Garden Boundaries and Weather Sinister Patchwork of a Rural Tale
The passage recalls a woman born in Theodore Roosevelt’s era, living through 17 presidents and pre–19th Amendment women’s rights. She tends a vegetable-filled garden now choked by rain and weeds. A wooden stake garden tool and a cantankerous fence frame her day as she jokes about vines entangling anyone who steps too close.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Miss Julie
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