McDowell County looks back at a year of flood loss and hope
Larry Hypes reflects on 2002 hardships in McDowell County including floods that damaged Welch downtown, bank collapse fallout in Keystone, and personal losses such as Barbara Hairston and Coach Bramwell Boyd. He praises community resilience, celebrates school openness in Bramwell, and calls for a hopeful 2003 with continued spirit and effort.
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McDowell County
Welch
Keystone
Barbara Hairston
Mt. View High School
Jennings Boyd
West Virginia
Boyd
Bramwell
Mercer County
United States
Four Seasons
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Editorial Page Snippet
The fragment lists staff roles including Executive Editor Thomas A. Colley Managing Editor and Sports Editor, and notes a Bible quotation. It reads like a masthead line with names and job titles followed by a biblical verse. The readable portion provides no event or outcome to report.
Bluefield Va to build flood safe town hall with FEMA grants
FEMA approves 1.3 million in grants to move Bluefield Virginia's town hall outside the flood plain and to buy and remove six homes from flood zones. A second grant funds Walnut Street flood reduction and a public hearing will guide design with residents. Additional funding requests exceed 1.25 million for five more mitigation projects.
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Bluefield
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA
Walnut Street
West Virginia
Southwest Virginia
Letters on Bramwell school closure and Montcalm transfer
A reader protests the Bramwell junior high and high school closure, noting unsafe school conditions and long bus rides to Montcalm. The author questions fairness, cites fire marshal concerns and a potential collapse, and urges reopening Bramwell or safer local schooling for children.
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Versioner School
Montcalm
Board of Education
Bramwell
Year in review: political quips and quotes from 2003
A year of sharp remarks by U S leaders is recalled with lines from Bush on war plans and Rumsfeld on North Korea. Clinton era cautions mix with Gore and Traficant scathing jabs, while McFeathers notes unease over leaks, evacuations, and political storms.
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Clinton
Leon Panetta
George Allen
R-Va
Senate
Trent Lott
Rmiss
Charlotte
N.C
Rumsfeld
North Korea
South Korea
Axis of Evil
Saddam Hussein
Bush
United Nations
Iraq
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Larry Hypes
The
Daily Telegraph
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Thomas A. Colley
Randy Deason
Samantha Perry
Sueeeneverereters
Qoo
Ann McFeathers
Charlotte, N.C
Capitol Hill
al Gore
Biotech
James Traficant
Dohio
Enron
America
Bill Frist
R-Tenn
Vermont
Howard Dean
Washington
Pittsburgh Post- Gazette
Toledo Blade
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