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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1992
Page
1
The section mixes national risk talk about a president with local Bluefield items on a mall stabbing possibly linked to a cult, rising garbage fees at Mercer County Landfill, tributes to Herb Sims, and pension revocation rulings for former state leaders. Also notes Christmas tree drive totals and memorials from community groups and employers.
Noon to 6 p.m. Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at Bluefield Youth Center with urgent need for O positive and O negative blood. At 7 p.m. Mount Rogers Planning District Executive Committee meets at 1021 Terrace Drive Marion Virginia. Friday Jan 3 includes a Tri County Health Clinic ribbon cutting at 3 p.m. and open house 3 to 6 at 2331 Front Street Richlands Virginia.
The National Weather Service forecasts partly sunny skies today with southeast winds of 5 to 10 mph and a high near 38. Tonight becomes cloudy with a low around 30. Weather package A-6.
The Shott family celebrates the 42nd Yuletide Breakfast at Bluefield Country Club on New Year's Eve from 7 to 10 am inviting around 800, with typical attendance about 450. John Shott recalls origins in 1949 at Pete's Restaurant, notes the event is a stag affair, and credits four generations of Shotts for the gathering. Parking and guest list omissions are ongoing challenges, but the breakfast serves as thanks to Bluefield residents and supporters.
The onset of the new year brings tax time with federal forms to be mailed January 2 and due April 15. Residents share varied timing from early filers seeking refunds to procrastinators delaying until the deadline. A minority plan to use electronic filing, while some rely on accountants and extensions.
Bluefield Regional Medical Center has reduced visiting hours to limit flu spread. Infection control specialist Betty Hicks says flu and related illnesses are peaking, though not an epidemic. Visitors are asked to come only if essential until cases drop.
Gov. Gaston Caperton plans end of week budget reductions to save between 50 and 70 million dollars. The plan calls for 4 percent overall cuts and a 1 percent reduction in education, with second half year boosts to 8 percent and 2 percent respectively. Caperton on vacation, news briefing set for Friday at 3 30 p.m.
The AP poll lists the 10 top news moments of 1991 led by U S forces crushing Iraq and Kurdish refugees The list cites the failed Gorbachev hard line coup the Clarence Thomas confirmation the Lebanon hostage release the U S economy and the end of the Cold War among others
Mercer County Board of Education faces no further action beyond eight thousand nine hundred ninety three dollars already invested in consolidation battles. No appeal was filed before the four month deadline to the state Supreme Court. Community activists say the dispute may reemerge soon, though officials report no imminent action.
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