Independence Day events light up Mercer Mall and region
AZEWELL Va July 3 to 4 festivities across Mercer Mall East River Street and Red Car Show run through the evening with rides food games and prizes plus face painting and music. A Bicentennial Homecoming Picnic at Cavitt Creek Park Lake Jack Witten celebrates Tazewell County’s 200th birthday with boating walking and bird watching. Fireworks displays occur in Bluefield after a July 3 baseball game and at Princeton’s Hunnicutt Field with a First Community Bank sponsored program Let Freedom Sing by the bank choir starting at 8 p.m.
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Azewell
Mercer Mall
East River Street
Tazewell County
Cavitt’s Creek Park
Jack Witten
Bluefield
W.va
Bluefield Orioles
Bowen Field
Bob Ratcliffe
Craft Family
First Community Bank
Hunnicutt Field
Princeton
Zambelli
Pennsylvania
Freedom
Acme Plans Close Two Bluefield Va Stores
Acme Markets of Virginia Inc will close the Cumberland Road and College Park Shopping Center stores in Bluefield Va citing underperforming results. About 60 employees will be affected while the Westgate store on Leatherwood Lane remains open and the company seeks internal transfers.
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Bluefield
Tazewell
Acme Markets of Virginia, Inc
Cumberland Road
Acme
College Park
Fred Kraegel
Acme Markets
Steve Mitchell
Virginia
West Virginia
Carolinas
Kentucky
Mitchell
Westgate
Leatherwood Lane
West Virginia enacts privacy and tax laws in new fiscal year
West Virginia begins its new fiscal year with about two dozen laws taking effect at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. A Driver Protection Act provision allows state agencies to share driver data unless motorists opt out, and a 1999 revision tightens limits on selling personal information. The state also imposes a 75 cent daily car rental tax and funds environmental cleanups for tires scattered across the landscape.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Congress
Mary Jane Lopez
Division of Motor Vehicles
Two Bluefields Mayors Step Down From Office
Bluefield West Virginia mayor Nelson Walker retires after three years citing health reasons while Bluefield Virginia mayor Lang Hurley completes his two year direct vote term and does not seek re election. Hurley expressed enjoyment of the experience and Walker noted the three years were rewarding yet challenging.
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Bluefield
Bluefields
Nelson Walker
Lang Hurley
Hurley
Bluefield closes Bland Street No. 2 fire station today
The Bland Street No. 2 fire station in Bluefield will close at 8 a.m. after budget cuts. Fire Chief Gerald Steele calls it a sad day for a historic 1920s landmark and warns of potential slower response times for the public. Residents like Bernice Lucado worry about safety and insurance impacts as coverage shifts to central Bluefield Avenue and Cumberland Road stations.
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Bland Street
Bluefield
Bernice Lucado
Lucado
Steele
Central
Bluefield Avenue
Cumberland Road
Gerald Steele
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Ron Davis
Bluefield Florist
Eric DiNovo
Brian Brooks
Khadijah Brown
Tony Price
D.J. Hunt
Hardy Street Park
Walker
Fire Department
Charles Owens
The
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Warlick Glass
Warlick Furniture
Raleigh St
Abby
M&M’s
M&ms
Michael Tolkowsky
M&M/Mars
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