Four Seasons Country tourism push urged in Mercer County
Barbara Hawkins notes local tourist assets from Bluefield to Bramwell and urges Mercer County residents to act as ambassadors. Prattling about skiing at WinterPlace, coal shows, festivals, and nearby Virginia attractions, she cites economic impact of 5 to 7 million dollars and calls for more local visitation and pride.
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Four Seasons
Mercer County
Jim Holland
Princeton Devil Rays
Mercer County Convention & Visitors Bureau
Bluefield
Princeton
Bramwell
Glenwood Park
Tazewell County
Hinton
Summers County
Monroe
Bland
West Virginia
Pocahontas
Buddy Warden
Buddy
Pami
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Staff Credits
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph lists William Randy Deason as Publisher and News Editor with Barbara Hawkins Bill Archer and Thomas A. Colley in executive and county editor roles. The publication notes a religious verse from 1 Thessalonians 4:3 as part of its page text.
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Barbara Hawkins
The
Daily Telegraph
Bhawkins
Bottonline.com
Tazewell County plans pilot drug court for youths
A pilot drug court in Tazewell County aims to divert non-violent first-time offenders from addiction. Officials, led by Commonwealth Attorney Dennis Lee, seek federal grant support to expand the program from 10–15 defendants to up to 100, with training from judges, treatment providers, and prosecutors.
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Tazewell County
Dennis Lee
Lee
Tazewell
Letters on moral values and national fate
A reader laments a lost sense of true moral values spanning democracy, economy, health care, education, the environment, and personal freedom. The piece recalls 1960s Vietnam, condemns war lies, urges unity, and calls for voters to restore what the author sees as foundational American ideals.
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Vietnam
Ag Tay
Pneumococcal vaccine called for by registered nurse
A Keystone RN urges public awareness of the pneumonia vaccine and its role in preventing serious pneumococcal infections. She advises asking health care providers and notes CDC contact numbers for questions.
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CDC
Michele F. East
Keystone
W.va
Morality, media shifts, and rising caution in US culture
Ann McFeathers surveys a week of news noting a White House Christmas card funded by the RNC and copied art, doubts about journalism's future post Brokaw and Rather, shifts toward lighter hard news, fears of terrorism reducing foreign students, declining teen driving licenses, Ken Jennings on Jeopardy! and Barbara Walters' countdown, plus a 50 percent drop in school violent crime attributed to security measures, with a question about future changes.
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Ashington
WV Ceere
Laura Bush
Republican National Committee
Texas
Cindi Holt
White House
Bush
Tom Brokaw
Dan Rather
Network News
United States
Los Angeles Times
Washington D.C
Ken Jennings
Barbara Walters
Department of Education
Department of Justice
Peter Jennings
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