Anna Stuart Nominated For Best Supporting Actress
Bluefield actress Anna Stuart Donna Love Hudson from Another World is among three nominees for Best Supporting Actress in Soap Opera Digest awards to be announced Friday on NBC. After a decade on AW she reflects on audience impact and future goals while tracing her acting path from Bluefield High to Barter Theater and Virginia Intermont.
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Anna Stuart
Donna Love Hudson
NBC
Stuart
Bluefield High School
Atlanta
Virginia Intermont
Barter Theater
Abingdon
Riverboat gambling bill faces votes in WV committees
A survey by The Associated Press shows likely failure of a riverboat gambling bill with local option in West Virginia. House and Senate judiciary panels reveal majority no votes. Speaker Chambers and Sen Blatnik pledge bills this week. Support hinges on tax allocations for highways bridges and sewers.
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House of Delegates
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D-Cabell
Thais Blatnik
Ohio
Monongahela
Kanawha
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Blatnik
Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs
Huntington
Chambers
Joe Manchin
Dmarion
PikeView Band Boosters Meet Monday Evening
Monday at 7 p.m. the PikeView High School Band Boosters will meet in the school band room. All school supporters and parents are urged to attend. On Tuesday February 14 at 1 p.m. Lets Talk About AIDS will be offered at Tierney Center Dickason Hall Bluefield State College open to the public. Call 327-4071 for details at 1 p.m. Mercer County Board of Education will meet in special session in the Seminar Center Mercer County Technical Education Complex Princeton for School Improvement Councils input sessions and personnel.
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Weather and Lottery Update From Virginia and West Virginia
Partly sunny today with highs in the upper 20s and southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Tonight partly cloudy with lows 10 to 20. Lottery notes show Powerball drawing 4 14 15 28 44 with 17, no winner. Virginia Lotto drawing 1 8 16 20 40 44 with one jackpot winner from Smithfield and an estimated $1 million jackpot.
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Pocahontas Seeks Funding for Exhibition Mine Museum
Pocahontas Mayor Anita Brown plans to request funding from the Tazewell County Board of Supervisors to open part of the Pocahontas Exhibition Mine Museum by spring. The museum will be housed in a building donated by CONSOL adjacent to the mine, which is now a National Historic Landmark. Brown notes parallel plans for a Boissevain miners museum and hopes for financial support.
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Boissevain
Pocahontas Exhibition
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Consol
Brown
Scenic license plate proposed for West Virginia
State Sen. Tony Whitlow leads a bill to issue a blue and gold scenic license plate featuring a mountain scene and a Sugar Maple. The plate would be optional for a one time $10, starting after Jan 1, 1996, with decals changing the date annually. The measure passed the Senate Transportation Committee and goes to the Finance Committee.
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West Virginia
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Mercer
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Senate
Mercer County
Transportation Committee
Private schools stay open despite snow in Bluefield area
In Bluefield Virginia private schools kept doors open as public districts closed. First Assembly Christian School reported 47 students and a flexible policy allowing snow days without penalty. Most attendees are local with some from Rocky Gap Boissevain Abbs Valley and Princeton, and weather dictated attendance.
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Virginias
Abbs Valley
Princeton
Scam artists painting disturbing picture in Mercer County
Mercer County investigations reveal a rise in scams targeting elderly homeowners. Prosecutor Charles Smith cites home repair pressure tactics, door to door solicitations, and phone scams as harming seniors with limited fixed incomes. The West Virginia Attorney General’s Office handles statewide efforts against such fraud.
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West Virginia
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