Final inspection underway for new Tazewell jail
MAZEWELL VA A final inspection of the $5 million Tazewell County Jail is underway Sheriff H S Caudill says relocation of inmates from the old jail to the new facility should be completed by February. Equipment from the old jail is being moved to the new site before demolition of the old jail as part of the $11.9 million courthouse project. Caudill says the new facility is state of the art and very safe, with final cleaning and removal of tools to prevent inmate weapon use before Virginia Department of Corrections approval and opening in February remains the expected date.
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Mazewell
Tazewell
H.S. Caudill
Caudill
Sheriff’s Department
Tazewell County
Virginia Department of Corrections
PCH expansion progress at Princeton Community Hospital
Princeton Community Hospital reports on the 23 million expansion due for completion in June 2001. The project adds an operating room complex women and children wing new emergency room and facility modernization. Weather has aided schedule with concrete walls foundations and backfill underway aided by Swope Construction Bluefield and Compton Construction Company as early subcontractors.
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Rinceton
Princeton Community Hospital
PCH
Dan Dunmyer
Mike Neal
Neal
Food pantries supplement food stamp gaps in Fayette County
As food stamps dwindle, Loaves and Fishes in Hinton Feed My Sheep Mission at Maple Fork and FAC outside Fayetteville offer canned and non perishable goods. Donations and United Way funding support operations with Maple Fork Baptist Church serving about 110 families monthly. Feed My Sheep opens the first Saturday each month to provide multiple boxes so families can last the month.
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Veryone
E Department of Health and Human Services
Hinton
Feed My Sheep
Maple Fork
Fayette County
Jane Duffield
Kroger’s
United Way
Betty Steen
FAC
Mission
Judy Catlett
Assembly faces big Va. issues
RICHMOND VA AP After more than a century of sub servience to the Democrats Republicans have complete control of Virginia's General Assembly. The GOP wields power starting in 2000 with the session determining state spending road building teacher pay and other issues. The Republicans hold a working majority but fissures between conservatives and moderates may foil hardline aims.
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Richmond
Virginia
General Assembly
GOP
S. Vance Wilkins Jr
House of Delegates
House
Jim Gilmore
Senate
Coyote bounty eyed by Buchanan County officials today
In Tazewell County coyotes killed for a $50 bounty were brought to the landfill after threatening an elderly Jewell Ridge resident. County Environmental Control Director Sandy Etter noted three bounties have been paid as Tazewell enforces a new coyote killing ordinance and nearby Buchanan County considers a similar program. Entailed are the carcass witnessing rule and a comment on coyotes preying on livestock and pets.
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Tazewell
Tazewell County
Buchanan County
Jason Keene
Environmental Control
Sandy Etter
Jewell Ridge
Etter
Keene
Tazewell County Environmental Control
Saffie
Easy Etter
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Princeton
Greg Jordan Hospital
West Virginia
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Eapas Saupas
Odis
Editorial
Buchanan
Coyote
Abby
Arcelia Garcia
Yakima
Wash
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