Local meetings on Jan 24 25 across Bluefield Princeton area
The Bluefield Regional Medical Center board will meet in the hospital board room on Wednesday January 24 at 5 30 PM. On Thursday January 25 at 3 PM the AARP Chapter 2147 Bluefield Tazewell VA will gather at the VFW building Bluefield VA, followed by a 5 7 PM business after hours at Sunlit Surf Corp Princeton Thorn Street. Also listed are a 2 PM Creative Retirement Center program at New River Gorge National River with Ranger Altare and Pipestem State Park with naturalist Jim Phillips, plus events at Tierney Conference Center Dickason Hall Bluefield State College.
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Bluefield Regional Medical Center
Hospital Board Room
AARP
Bluefield
Tazewell
VFW
Princeton
Mercer County
New River Gorge National River
Richard Altare
Pipestem State Park
Jim Phillips
Tierney
Dickason
Bluefield State College
Educators and leaders rally for $21.9 million Mercer school bond
Educators and local leaders prepared to speak to civic groups and chambers to promote a March 10 vote on a $21.9 million bond funding a new elementary school in the Bluewell Brushfork area and improvements across Mercer County. The board organized a speakers bureau. opinions from local business leaders highlighted quality schools as vital to economic growth.
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Princeton
Chambers of Commerce
Bluewell
Brushfork
Mercer County Board of Education
Mercer County Technical Education Center
R.W. Wilkinson
First Century Bank
Bluefield
Wilkinson
Pike View High School
Bramwell
Joanna Fredeking
Princeton Primary
Norfolk Southern cuts dividends and downsizes in 2000
Anne Crowe of Salomon Smith Barney notes Norfolk Southern stock slid after the 20 cent to six cent quarterly dividend cut. NS trimmed 2,497 jobs in 2000, reducing the workforce from 35,000 to about 33,000, with 12,000 freight cars for sale and 3,000 to 4,000 miles of track to be sold or abandoned as part of extensive efficiency measures.
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Conrail
Anne Crowe
Bluefield
Salomon Smith Barney
Crowe
Bland
Bush plan to reform education and aid small districts
President Bush pushes a multi billion dollar education plan to fix failing schools raise student testing boost district control of funds and ensure reading by age nine. Small districts seek more leeway as budgets stay tight while fuel and paperwork costs rise. Senators Lieberman Hutchison weigh options and effects on urban and rural schools.
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Bush
Congress
Phillips
Joe Lieberman
Dconn
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Texas
Bond markets, West Virginia hospitals face rating pressure
Princeton Community Hospital COO notes its 1999 40 million bond issued at 6.03 percent now faces higher costs if credit ratings weaken. Moody's analyst Beth Wexler warns not-for-profit hospitals may see a six to 18 month downturn with tighter rate regulation and aging, rural West Virginia finances. Standard & Poor's Kenneth Rodgers cites ongoing negative health care credit trends since 1999.
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Princeton Community Hospital
Pittman
BBA
PCH
West Virginia
Beth Wexler
Moody’s Investor Services
Princeton
Wexler
Deb Griffith
Griffith
Medicare
Medicaid
Public Employees Insurance Agency
PEIA
Kenneth Rodgers
Public Finance
Standard & Poor
New York
Fire destroys mobile home in Princeton at Northview Addition
No injuries reported after a fire Tuesday morning destroyed a mobile home and its contents at 233 Northview Addition off Athens Road. Calvin Mills and Valerie Whittaker were inside Mills’ home when a neighbor alerted them. East River Volunteer Fire Department and Princeton Rescue Squad responded. the trailer behind the house, owned by Whittaker, burned completely.
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Princeton
Calvin Mills
Valerie Whittaker
Mills
Northview Addition
Athens Road
East River Volunteer Fire Department
Princeton Rescue Squad
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Bluefield High School
Bluefield High
Montcalm High School
Princeton Senior High School
Thorn Elementary School
Fredeking
Bob Phillips
Monroe County
Bond
Indom Leo Ent Ole
Cornerstone Family Services
AME
Ree
Cottetstone A
Sess
Aly Services of
Prussi
Blaze
Whittaker
RCA
Open Sky Enterprises
Si Pegasus
Michael Crews, D.O
Physicians’ Health Center
St. Luke’s Hospital
Southview Drive
College Ave
West Virginia-American Water Company
Ert’s
Wvawater.com
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