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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 2008
Page
3
Samantha Perry writes about rising fuel costs reshaping daily life from Bluewell to Bluefield. She notes more pedestrians and cyclists, thrifted coffee, cheaper toilet paper, drive through etiquette, and a culture stressed by prices as Americans endure a slow boil toward an uncertain future.
Publisher William Randy Deason leads Cluefield Daily Telegraph with Thomas A Colley as Executive Editor Samantha Perry as Managing Editor and a team including a City Editor. The paper emphasizes its sacred motto and mission to be set apart as holy.
Celebrations mark high school and college milestones across southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia as graduates face tougher economic times. The piece lauds their hard work, resilience, and potential to turn challenges into future success, urging confidence as they begin careers or further study.
The author laments the absence of U S National Guard and citizen soldiers amid killer tornadoes in the Witwer and Great Plains states. They accuse President Bush of sending troops overseas for political reasons, warn of sleeper cells, and call for guardsmen to defend homeland as storms and fires threaten the nation.
Summit Players stage Greater Tuna in a side splitting revival starring Skip Crane and Christian Masters who portray 20 characters set in Tuna Texas. The show honors Peery Blackwell and Gene Basham, directors Ellen Light and Sue Jackson lead. Summit Stage II launches, Ed Trotta spearheads Alliance for the Arts, calling for community and regional support to sustain theater nationwide. Trotta has a long list of awards and directing credits.
The piece notes House Resolution 981 designating March 6, 2008 as World Glaucoma Day to raise awareness of glaucoma. It also reports McDowell and Mercer County results with Dennis Altizer unopposed for Assessor and Judge Booker T. Stevens winning, plus local reaction to election issues and political chatter from Bluefield resident Wilson Butt.
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