Coalminer's Granddaughter filmed in Virginia counties
Made for television movie starring George C Scott Ally Sheedy Don Diamont and Rachael Cook filmed over 19 days in Tazewell County and Mercer County with scenes at the Mercer County Courthouse in Princeton. No air date set with tentative title Coalminer's Granddaughter and possible CBS Network interest.
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Azewell
Tazewell
Mercer
Virginia Film Office
George C. Scott
Tazewell County
Mercer County
Princeton
Don Goldman
CBS
Goldman
Robert Trimble
Christy Parker
Scott
Patton
Ally Sheedy
St. Elmos’s
Fire
Don Diamont
Brad
The
Young and the Restless
Rachael Cook
Salvation Army opens new thrift store in Princeton
The Salvation Army launches a larger thrift operation at 818 Mercer St on Wednesday June 5 at noon with a ribbon cutting by Capt. Jim Edmonds. Special sales and discounts await. The renovated Western Auto building expands clothing, mattresses, appliances, and a craft corner to aid fundraising and help those in need.
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Princeton
Salvation Army
Western Auto
Mercer St
Jim Edmonds
Mercer Street
Western Auto Store
Edmonds
Virginia tourism officials finish area photo shoot in coalfields
Virginia Division of Tourism completed a week of photo shoots across Southwest Virginia coordinated with the Virginia Coalfield Regional Tourism Development Authority. Sites like Pocahontas Exhibition Mine and Breaks Interstate Park were photographed with about 30 rolls daily. Photos will support state brochures, ads, and media releases, and will be filed for future statewide tourism efforts.
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Tazewell
Virginia Division of Tourism
Virginia
Virginia Coalfield Regional Tourism Development Authority
Pocahontas Exhibition Mine
Crab Orchard Museum
Burkes Garden
Buchanan County
Breaks Interstate Park
Richmond
Mullins
VDT
State Office
Coalfield Authority
Mercer County Democratic Convention Set For June 20
Mercer County Democratic Executive Committee chairman Homer K Ball announced the 1996 Mass County Democratic Convention will convene at 7 p.m. June 20 at the Mercer County Courthouse to elect delegates to the State Democratic Convention on July 20 at the Charleston Civic Center. Any registered Democrat in the county may attend and seek delegate status. For details contact Ball at 304 384 9134.
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Princeton
Homer K. Ball
Mercer County
Democratic Executive Committee
Mass County
Charleston Civic Center
Joy site owner says he's scapegoat in cleanup dispute
Bluefield the Joy Manufacturing site on Washington Street draws EPA orders for PCB cleanup. Elwin Aliff, owner since 1980, says Joy Technologies and the EPA are blaming him while he rejects responsibility for toxics. The EPA cites recent tests and ongoing risks from PCBs at the 3 acre site near Bluefield High School.
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Bluefield
Joy Manufacturing
Washington Street
Joy Technologies
EPA
Elwin Aliff
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
Aliff
Joy
Bluefield High School
Joy Technologies, Inc
Aliff and
Pittsburgh
Lawrence Lepidi
Lepidi
Community Notices and Public Proceedings Highlight Local Events
A compilation of local notices includes church rummage hours at Airport Road First Church of God, a Walker performance at BHS with dramas Blockades to Hell What Might Have Been Generation x, a Bluefield hamfest and computer show at Graham Middle School with five dollar admission, Ex-POWs meeting in Bonanza Restaurant, Macedonian Baptist revival led by James Green, pancake breakfast at Rescue 945, leukemia fundraiser at Food Lion benefiting the Leukemia Society, a Middle New River Genealogical Society meeting at Acme Supermarket, and WV forestry show June 8-9 at Barbour County Fairgrounds. Also listed are gas and oil operation notices for CBM U-15J U-56 and U-151 in Buchanan County with public objection procedures, and public service filings about Appalachian Power Company rates and West Virginia American Water Company condemnation notices in Mercer County.
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Public Service Commission OF
West Virginia
Charleston
Emnarene Mey
TCN
Preferred Carrier Services, Inc
Greenway Drive
Irving
Texas
Suite 210
Martinsburg
Morgantown
Moundsville
New Cumberland
Parkersburg
Point-Pleasant
Welch
Wheeling
Williamson
P.O. Box
Pamela J. Hicks
West Virginia-American Water Cry, & Corporation
John R. Frazier
Circuit Court
Mercer County
Plymouth
Don R. Keaton
Ruth Keaton
Keaton
Caperton Lane
West Virginia American Water Company
Plymouth District
A.E. Associates, Ltd
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Charles Owens
Daily Telegraph
Courthouse
Jim Terry
Airport Road
First Church of God
Graham Middle School
Lebanon
Southwest Virginia
Boissevain
Macedonia Baptist Church
James Green
Karl and
Gloria
Rescue 945
Food Lion
Leukemia Society
Genealogical Society Meeting
Middle New River Genealogical Society
Acme
Main
Mercer Streets
West Virginia Forestry Association
Belington Convention and Visitors
Code of Virginia
Virginia Gas and Oil Inspector
Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy
Division of Gas and Oil
Anl
Big Axe 4
Hurricane District
Virginia Gas and Oil
Abingdon
Consol Inc
U-Isg
Big Axe
Department of Mires, Minerals and Energy
Big Axe 7
P.O
Spectron
Big Axe 3
Operawof
Ollie Jane Friend
Stephen E. Arey
Esq. P.q. P.O
James E. Blevins
Betty B. Vanhoozer
Appalachian Power Company
Dba
American Electric Power
Public Service Commission
W.va
Appalachian
ENEC
Commission
Howard M. Cunningham
West Virginia-American Water Company
Petitioner
Dorothy McCoy
Silas Keaton
Varena Griffith
Roy O. Keaton
Faye Shields
Bernice Gay
Woodson Keaton
Homer Keaton
von Keaton
Carol Jones
Mary K. Pritt
Ruth K. Linkous
O.K. Can
Harvey A. Siler
Mark B. D' Antoni Jackson & Kelly
Laidley Tower
Stepen N
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