SCED expands services at new Bluefield center
South Central Educational Development Inc. SCED opened expanded services at Bland Street in Bluefield with grants from Shott and Tierney Foundations and local donations. The center will offer computer classes wireless Internet access and a community lab while planning a puppet stage for youth education and a 16 track recording studio. Darryl Cannady says phase II includes a broader in house and community based program.
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Bluefield
South Central Educational Development, Inc
SCED
Bland Street
Shott Foundation
Tierney Foundation
Darryl Cannady
Cannady
Bluefield State College
Reunion of Three Vietnam Veterans in Princeton
Three Vietnam veterans, Douglas Bowie Virgil Woody and Keith Hicks, reunited at a Cracker Barrel in Princeton on May 30 after serving together since 1968. They met in Ashland Kentucky and trained with Dale Schoefield, recalling long days at sea and sunsets off the Asia Pacific coast.
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Rinceton
Douglas MacArthur Bowie
Princeton
Virgil Woody
Bowie
Woody
Keith Hicks
Hicks
U.S. Navy
Bluefield
Ashland
Go Navy
Navy
Doug Bowie
Schoefield
Keith
Virgil
Asia Pacific
Sasebo
Japan
Eyes on the skies over West Virginia and Virginia
Local emergency crews brace for an active hurricane season and possible summer floods after a torrential downpour flooded basements in Crumpler McDowell County. Officials say readiness spans March to fall with past floods in 2001 2002 and 2003 guiding planning and drills in Mercer Tazewell and nearby counties.
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Bluefield
McDowell County
West Virginia
Virginia
Nelson Short
Mercer County
Tazewell County
Richlands
Buchanan County
Dee Phillips
Phillips
Names Behind Coalfield Towns Reflect Regional Heritage
A Welch Daily News feature traces how McDowell and surrounding coalfield towns got their names from coal barons surveyors Native lore and regional pioneers. It outlines examples like Welch Jenkin Jones Maybeury Ennis Kyle Clark Kimball and Shawnee now known as Kimball plus Helena Huger Maitland and more, with notes on local history and language.
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Elena
Welch
McDowell County
Isaiah A. Welch
Jenkin Jones
Princeton
Hugh Mercer
Indian Gravel Ridge
Panther Creek
Little Indian Creek
Indian Gap
Virginia
Mohegan
A.J. May
William Beury
Ennis
William McQuail
Turkey Gap Coal Co
Kyle
Lynchburg Coal Co
Clark
Northfork
L.H. Clark
Keystone
Clarksville
Pennsylvania
Keystone State
Eckman
John W. Eckman
Landgraff
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Sced Expanding Services
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Eric DiNovo
By Bill Archer
Bill Archer
Tom Gibson
West End
Juniper Street
Bluefield Avenue
Tastee Freez
Gertrude (Damion) Gibson
Charles Owens
Worth
Worth Kirkpatrick
Havace
New River
Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Co
Jed
Jed Hotchkiss
Staunton
Wilcoe
William Coe
N&w
Tug Fork
Westminster
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Barbara Ballard
Linda Whalen
John Knight
John Forbes Nash Jr
Whalen
Country Stars
Brushfork
Cecil Surratt
National Guard Armory
Beverly Phillips
Whitethorn
Exiter Street
George Anderson
Anderson
George
Ramona Anderson
Janet Williams
Andersons
Illiams
Williams
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