Cold season recall of Abbs Valley rural schools and coal fuel habits
Larry Hypes recalls winters in Abbs Valley and Boissevain where students walked to class to avoid dangerous roads, fires burned with burnside stoves, coal and wood were hauled daily, and girls helped with fires while many fathers mined coal. He connects this to timber work and old mining life in nearby Jenkin Jones, noting changes in logging and industry.
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Abbs Valley
Boissevain
Pocahontas Fuel Company
Morrall
Morning Star
Jenkin Jones
Occupational Health and Safety
OSHA
Virginia Forest Magazine
Old Dominion Timber
Roanoke
Richmond
Bluefield Daily Staff Roles and Bible Verse Cited
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph lists staff including publisher Darryl Hudson news editor and sports editor with Andy Patton Brian Woodson Samantha Perry and others. A Bible verse from Isaiah 51 12 AKJV is quoted in the note.
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Eveepnenst Andy Patton
Brian Woodson
West Virginia school construction progresses in Mercer and McDowell counties
Mer cer County officials report Pike View Middle School near March 2011 completion with over 90 percent of block and concrete work done and windows being installed. In McDowell County, Jaeger Elementary School construction is planned to begin next year as part of a flood proofing agreement that also funded River View High School Bradshaw Elementary Southside K-8 and Mount View Middle with future tours for students before classes start.
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West Virginia
Pike View Middle School
Mercer County
Greg Prudich
Mercer County Board of Education
McDowell County
Jaeger
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
McDowell County Board of Education
State Board of Education
State School Building Authority
River View
Bradshaw
Southside
Mount View
Saeger
Saeger High School
Mike Mitchem
Pike View
Oakvale
Spanishburg
Athens
Lashmeet
Matoaka
Prudich
Mercer
McDowell
West Virginia letter opposes AEP rate hike and high CEO pay
A reader laments Appalachian Power lacking competition, urging Senator H. Truman Chafin to help low income residents. The writer cites CEO Michael Morris earning 50.4 million over five years, questions shareholder approval, praises Charleston activists at the Public Service Commission hearing, and urges diversifying power sources to curb outages and rate increases.
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H. Truman Chafin
West Virginia
AEP
Charleston
Public Service Commission
Chafin
Michael Morris
Virginia
Senate
Telegraph seeks public letters with signature and contact details
Daily Telegraph invites readers to send letters on public issues. Letters must include the writer’s signature, address, and phone number for publication consideration. Submissions accepted by email to editor at bdtonline com.
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Daily Telegraph
Internet worries are mostly bogus say columnist
Jay Ambrose argues that Internet fears are largely unfounded and that the web acts as a corrective rather than a danger. He notes Wikileaks would have been less impactful without the Internet, but stresses readers can access diverse reliable sources online and that newspapers would have reported major stories regardless.
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WikiLeaks
U.S
The
Atlantic
Google
Thomas Nagel
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Tazewell High School
Bluefield Baily Telegraph
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Charles Owens
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Od LJ
Washington
Scripps Howard Newspapers
el Paso
Texas
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Colorado
Scripps Howard News Service
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