Summer diary of crime, dogs, and community in Bluefield
Samantha Perry reviews a summer filled with poignant local stories from the Bluefield area. She notes a hit and run case, bone-dry crime updates, K-9 unit news, and community fairs, while sharing family joys with two Labrador sisters and canine chaos at home.
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Mercer County Sheriff’s Department
Iska
Lance Cpl. James
Jimmy” Sargent
Anawalt
Arlington
Honey
Penny
Ol’ Yeller
Cluefield Daily Telegraph Staff Credits and Verse
The Cluefield Daily Telegraph lists editors including News Editor Sports Editor and Managing Editor along with city and senior editors. A biblical verse from John 10 10 AV appears as a quoted line.
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Barbara Hawkins
The
Daily Telegraph
Rural supervisor links drug abuse to national crisis
Bland County supervisor Henry Blessing speaks on a drug epidemic sweeping rural areas. He notes hundreds of local overdoses over decades, contrasts with no combat deaths, and urges action beyond myths as drugs like cocaine and heroin fuel addiction across America.
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Onry Blessing
Sharon
Bland County
Blessing
Bland
Henry Blessing
Madison Avenue
Loitering at New Courthouse Annex Sparks Letter
A Pembroke reader, Luther K. Smith, complains after a dedication ceremony for the new courthouse annex. He notes people lingering by the entrance, smoking and drinking, marring the building’s image and questions the lack of designated waiting areas. He urges action to stop loitering.
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Luther K. Smith
Pembroke
Airlift Wing saved as DoD moves questioned in West Virginia
Delegate Marshall Long, D Mercer, reports the West Virginia Air National Guard 130th Airlift Wing at Yeager Airport Charleston is spared from losing eight C 130s to Pope Air Force Base North Carolina The move would have ended the wings base role and forced layoffs of more than half its 320 full time staff and 700 part time workers Long cites family ties and states Byrd and Capito reacted urging use of WV for training and to keep soldiers in mountainous regions
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Charleston
Del
Marshall Long
M.D
D-Mercer
Capitol
West Virginia Air National Guard
130Th Airlift Wing
Yeager
Department of Defense
Pope Air Force Base
Fayetteville
N.C
Long
Richard Blankenship
North Carolina
130Th
West Virginia
West Virginia Air National Guard unit praised in WV Capitol notes
Barbara Hawkins notes a WV Legislature session focus on preserving the 130th Airlift Wing amid calls from lawmakers Capito and De Long. The piece covers funding debates, a Medicaid cut controversy, and a Wyoming County Council on Aging funding dispute linked to state investigations.
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Bob Graham
Wyoming
Graham
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Mercer County
Alice Cooper
Bluefield City
Bluefield Regional Medical Center
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McDowell County
Bluefield
Highland Avenue
Sperry
Bottonline
Cluefield Daily Telegraph
Thomas A. Colley
Bill Archer
Charles Owens
Allen Roberts
William ‘Randy’ Deason
New Annex
Patrian
Manchin -Graham’s
U.S
Robert C. Byrd
D-W.va
Shelley Moore Capito
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Byrd
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WV Legislature
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Virginia
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Joe Manchin
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