Tazewell board preserves 3 percent teacher raise in slim budget
Tazewell County School Superintendent Dr Brenda Lawson said contracts would still be issued today as the Board of Supervisors cut 470000 from the districts operations and maintenance funds. Officials stressed the 3 percent raise remains likely while the county navigates funding gaps and a new state prison project in Pocahontas expected to create about 300 jobs.
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Earl Griffith
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Wardell man dies from mobile home blaze smoke inhalation
In Richlands Virginia a Wardell man 37 Dallas Crabtree was found unresponsive in a College Ridge Mobile Estates home after an early morning fire on June 25. He died at Clinch Valley Medical Center from smoke inhalation while investigators continue probing the fire’s origin and nature. The blaze damaged one room with most structure soot and smoke. Richlands Fire Department Life Line Ambulance responded.
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Tazewell County
Mercer County women indicted on federal drug charges
Two Mercer County women, Judith C. Baker and Carla D. Punturi, faced initial appearances in federal magistrate court on an eight count indictment charging distribution of oxycodone, cocaine, and hydrocodone in the Princeton area from 1999 to spring 2004. Christie E. Hardin did not appear. Arraignments set for 10:30 a.m. in Beckley.
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Judy” Baker
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