Community Christmas Tree drive nears goal in Bluefield
Saturday added 164 children and raised $565 toward a $25,000 goal, pushing this year’s total to $3,252 with two days left. Colley and Delores French chair the sign-up. donations can be mailed to Bluefield Daily Telegraph c/o Community Christmas Tree Box 1599 or dropped at the office. Memorial gifts and tributes totaling several hundred dollars are noted from families including the Hughes, Pendry, and Romano families, among others.
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Colley
Delores French
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
c/o
Community Christmas Tree
Bluefield
W.va
Daily Telegraph
Bluefield Avenue
Community Christmas Tree Fund
Pets drive aids shelter during holiday overcrowding
Mercer County Animal Shelter sees 50 dogs and many cats enter shelter two days before Thanksgiving as budgets and space strain families. Donna Murphy of Tazewell County notes holiday intake rises with a weak economy. Debby Smith’s Pet Haven Rescue Center in Falls Mills benefits from the drive, relying on public donations to care for 35 dogs and 55 cats.
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Mercer County Animal Shelter
Santa Claus
Lisa Nisbet
Nisbet
Tazewell County
Donna Murphy
Murphy
Pet Haven Rescue Center
Falls Mills
Bluefield Christmas Concerts by Town Band This December
The East River Mountain Town Band presents its 13th Annual Christmas Concerts in Pipestem Resort State Park today at 3 p.m. and Bluefield High School Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. The City of Bluefield Fine Arts Commission sponsors admission is free. In Princeton, Mercer County Democrats host a Christmas dinner at Concord University ballroom Monday at 7 p.m. Tickets are $17 from Julie Ball.
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Bluefield
East River Mountain
Makeover Lodge
Pipestem Resort
Princeton
Mercer County
Democrat Club
Concord University
Julie Ball
Murder case details puncture doors and fatal shooting
The 1999 death of Charles Kowaleski follows a July 1999 shooting at the Kowaleski residence that injured his son and later killed Mrs. Miller. Shrader, facing first degree murder charges, was hospitalized claiming a brain concussion. Union-era connections and local legal figures are named in the ensuing investigation and prosecution.
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Charles Kowaleski
Walter Kowaleski
Walter
Charlie
Trooper Moore
Kowaleski
Miller
Mercer County
Bluefield
Norris Kantor
Katz, Kantor, Katz, Perkins & Cameron
Shrader
Bramwell High School
Vocational Industrial Clubs of America
BHS
Harry Camper
McDowell County
Moore
Shrader murder case reveals long aftermath in West Virginia
Retired Trooper D R Moore recalls the 1976 McDowell County murder case in Welch where Shrader pled guilty to two counts of first degree murder and malicious wounding. The trial followed a packed courtroom with testimony on Shrader's psychiatric history and mercy recommendation. Shrader later escaped, was recaptured in Texas, and faced a new federal indictment in 1999 for stalking the murder victim's daughter after continued contact from prison.
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D.R. Moore
Welch Detachment
West Virginia State Police
Wade Watson
Maybeury
McDowell County Circuit Court
Welch
Jack Marinari
Rudolph Marensky
Shrader
Camper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Maryanne Stevens
Moore
Beckley
Kantor
McDowell County
Texas
Pittsburgh
Moundsville State Penitentiary
Department
Bureau of Criminal Investigations
Mercer County
Duhring
Federal Express
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Eric DiNovo
Herb Sims Community Center
Little Jimmie
Ralph and
Elizabeth Hughes
Bobby Pendry
Jackson Pendry
Mason Pendry
Rebecca Pendry
Madison Jones
Gaye Jones
Brendon Pendry
Bob
Anita Martin
Emilee N. Romano, Sgt
Louis D. Romano
Leia Allen
Lindsey Farley
Gaye Farley
W.E. Hebert Jr
Dan
Shirley Bowling
Glen T. Brown
Nancy Vu
William Matney
Kfeelene Chip
Georgann Simmons
The
Town Band
A-1
Gan
Terry Schwartz
FBI
Clark Vandervort
U.S. District Court
Bill Archer
Barcher
Bottonline
Pup N Sudz
Tazewell
Sare Shard Syairo
Bailey-Kirk
Baileyv
Mirk Funeral Home
Honaker Avenue
Bailey-Kirk.com
David Kirk
Sun ’ Child's
St. Mary’s Orthodox Church
St. Mary's Orthodox Church
Myra
St. Nicholas
St. Mary's Choir
Church Hall
Ranae Bailey
Rbailey
Frontiernet.net
Mark Tyson
St. Mary's
Justin
John Nash
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