New Melrose Activity Center opens at Melrose Elementary
The Melrose Activity Center in Princeton opened after noon Tuesday at Melrose Elementary School. Principal Edie Bennett noted 850000 project cost with 400000 donation from the Hunnicutt Foundation and community fundraising. Students and staff praised the gym for PE, assemblies, science fairs and basketball, with Reece Rhodes highlighting future use as a better facility than the cafeteria.
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Princeton
Melrose Activity Center
MAC
Melrose
Mary Alice Kaufman
Edie Bennett
Eric DiNovo
Main Street
Adam Sarver
Deborah Akers
Mercer County
Melrose Elementary School
Nity
Reece Rhodes
Bennett
County auctions funds to ambulance authority and sheriff
The county will divert 21 000 a month from coal mine royalties to the sheriff s department while the rest funds the courthouse project The Ambulance Authority faced cuts and a prior closure prompting concern from its director Susie Shelton Adams The sheriff s office hopes the extra funds may sustain four to six deputies until July 2017 with further income expected from taxes and utility checks in February and March and mines resuming activity in the area.
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McDowell County
McDowell County Economic Development Authority
McBride
EDA
Sheriff's Department
Susie Shelton Adams
McDowell County Ambulance Authority
County Commission
Ambulance Authority
West
Uties
Eddie) Asbury
Commission
Couple staged fake hostage robbery at Bramwell shop
Jeremy Perdue and his wife Sierra Perdue were arrested April 23 after a Riverside Pop Shop robbery. Video showed a man in black with a bandana and a BB gun taking cash while his wife waited outside. Prosecutors noted odd surveillance behavior and a second BB gun linked to a separate Bluewell pizza store heist. Court heard the couple planned the crime. Jeremy accepted a plea for two robberies while Sierra rejected one offer. Sentencing set for February 15. Sierra remains jailed on 50 000 bond pending trial.
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Wills
Bramwell
Kelli Harshbarger
Riverside Pop Shop
Jeremy Perdue
Sheriff's Department
Darrell Bailey
E.P. Parks
Parks
Sierra Perdue
Sierra) Perdue
Bailey
Simmons River Road
Harshbarger
Perdue
Southern
Earl Hager
Hager
Southern Regional
Rockwell Seay
Dogs tied to cruel breeding case at Wickham home
Investigators found seven dogs at a Wickham Avenue property, two dead, in two structures. Owner Shirlynn Redden claimed others cared for the animals. authorities issued four tickets and pursue ongoing investigation into possible illegal dog breeding and animal cruelty. Dogs were relocated to Mercer County Animal Shelter and the site condemned. Calls for information were routed to Detective Smith at 304-487-5095.
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Wickham Road
Smith
Shirlynn Redden
Wickham Avenue
Mercer County Animal Shelter
Tion
Community Christmas Tree Fund donations reach over 30k
Contributions listed for the Community Christmas Tree Fund include Doug and Kim Miller with 50 dollars in memory of loved ones, 100 dollars for Alfred Shumate via Geneva, Gloria, and Steve, 15 dollars for Katie Baldwin and Orin Tabor, 25 dollars for CB CL WE MA in memory of Jack and Virginia Akers, 100 dollars for Donald and Lavellaan, 50 dollars for Chester and Patty Pettrey, plus 30,266 dollars to date. Donations can be mailed to Bluefield Daily Telegraph, c/o Community Christmas Tree, PO Box 1599, Bluefield WV 24701, or dropped at the Telegraph office.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
c/o
Community Christmas Tree
Bluefield
Daily Telegraph
Community Christmas Tree Fund
Alfred Shumate
Geneva
Gloria
Steve
Katie Baldwin
Orin Tabor
Evanda
Bill Archer
Jack
Virginia Akers
Pam
Jack Brewster
Donald and
Lavella
Kathy Pettrey
Carolyn Harshbarger
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New Melrose
America the Beautiful
H.P and
Anne S. Hunnicutt Foundation, Inc
Credit Bureau of
The
Virginias Foundation, Inc
Four Seasons Pharmacy
Ken
Donna Reeves
Donald
Heather Tignor
Lisa Wood
Jarod
Lisa Horne
Dawn Parsons
Alston
Alma Belcher
Theresa Gearheart
Alpha Kappa Sorority
Melrose School
PTO
Charles Boothe
Cboothe
Bottonline
A-1
Ronnie Pruitt
Greg Jordan
Gjordan
Bottonline.com
Bill Buzzo
Giordan
Bottonline. Com
Doug and
Kim Miller
Chester Pettrey
Patty Pettrey
Ammar's Inc
Bdtonline
New Graham Knives
Biofield
Virginia
Nee, Hobo
U.S.A
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