Princeton City Council candidates focus on downtown growth
Sixteen contenders vie for four ward seats and an at large post in Princeton elections on June 6. Incumbents plus newcomers promise street repairs, downtown development, and broader city improvements across Ward I II III IV with pledges for better services, traffic relief, and stronger police presence.
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Princeton
Paul McManaway
McManaway
The
Recreation Board
County Board of Health
Dewey Russell
One Valley Bank
Russell
Mercer Street
Randall Bailey
Celanese Corp
Bailey
Princeton Jaycees
Princeton Rescue Squad
Ee Bailey
Betty Bates Hutchens
Princeton High School
Hutchens
Stafford Drive
Eugene “Libby” Price
Board of Education
Price
Ken Vaught
Parts Plus Auto Industry
Judy Joyce
Vaught
Harold Bandy
Hinton High School
Bandy
Ward III
Ted “Tv
Vargas
Bethlehem Steel
Mike Stafford
Stafford
Homer Skeens
Dan Mathena
Mathena
City Hall
Princeton Community Hospital
Mercer County Chamber of Commerce
Wanda Demont Perdue
Richard M. Howell
Howell
Bill Draper
Concord College
First Community Bank
Draper
George Johnson
Johnson
Outdoors writer Ed Zern balances humor with conservation
Pittsburgh AP profile of Ed Zern 78, longtime Field & Stream columnist and founder of the Chevron Conservation Awards Program in 1954. The piece covers his humor, concern for the environment, six books, and decades of recognizing conservationists, plus his illness and travel.
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Pittsburgh
Ed Zern
Zern
Field & Stream Magazine
Ernest Hemingway
Madison Avenue Red, Gun
Maggie Nichols
Field & Stream
Chevron
Washington
West Virginia University
Department of Mines
Mercer Board of Education plans informal brainstorming retreat
Mercer County Board of Education members and central office staff will host an informal brainstorming retreat at Princeton State Park Monday into Tuesday. The session, funded by the board, aims to address self assessment and development per an Institute for Educational Leadership and West Virginia School Boards Association evaluation. The plan seeks long term goals, but will not discuss the proposed consolidation plan.
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Princeton
Mercer County Board of Education
Prpester State Park
Jim Harrison
Institute For Educational Leadership Inc
West Virginia School Boards’ Association
Harrison
Princeton Bank
Mercer County
Baker
West Virginia
School
Mercer
Mercer County Board
Escaped inmate recaptured at his mother’s home
Beckley AP Inmate Robert C. Thomas 42 failed to return from a visit at his mother in Hagerstown Maryland and was recaptured Thursday night by local police. Work release administrator Wyetta Frederick said the escape warrant was issued after he learned the travel pass came from a parole officer rather than the corrections department. Thomas, held since December 12 for forgery in Morgan County, was awaiting parole papers.
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Zern
West Virginia
Pittsburgh
Mr. Thompson
Philadelphia Orchestra
Scarsdale
N.Y
Sivas
Beckley
Robert C. Thomas
Hagerstown
Wyetta Frederick
Thomas
Trator
Corrections Department
Frederick
Morgan County
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Princeton City Council
Greg Jordan
Daily Telegraph
Northern Virginia Community College
Brayhill
Perdue
Lewis I. Sheen
Joe Vicars
Scott County
Vicars
Marcia Dunn
Associated Press
Boe
BC and
BS of
Humana Hospital
St. Luke's
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
BC/BS
Southview Drive
Bluefield