Richlands Coal Miner's Memorial earns map designation
Richlands Coal Miner's Memorial is added to Virginia's official travel map, boosting Tazewell County tourism. Ginger Branton and Sen. Phillip Puckett helped secure the inclusion as part of a broader effort to promote Southwest Virginia heritage and the Coal Heritage Trail. The map expansion coincides with the Blue Ridge Parkway 75th anniversary activities.
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Richlands
Commonwealth of Virginia
Virginia
Tazewell County
Richlands Area
Branton
Phillip Puckett
D-Russell
Puckett
Blue Ridge Parkway
America
Bluefield water places high in state taste test
West Virginia American Water plants in Bluefield Weston and New River tied for third as 17 entries competed at Canaan Valley Resort during the joint WV American Water Works Association and WV Water Environment Association conference. Weston placed second behind Putnam Public Service District. Bluefield and Fairmont tied for third. Judge ratings covered clarity taste aftertaste and overall impression.
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Luefield
Bluefield
West Virginia
Weston Treatment
Putnam Public Service District
American Water
New River
Fairmont
Community colleges see growth as economy worsens
SVCC President Mark Estepp cites a 10 percent enrollment rise at Southwest Virginia Community College with state totals up 7.2 percent to a record 281,243 across 23 colleges. Younger students and more high school entrants increase the transfer and health care program shares as people seek better value and technical degrees.
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Claypool Hill
Southwest Virginia Community College
Mark Estepp
Virginia Community College System
Associated Press
SVCC
Estepp
Esteppe
Wallace pleads guilty to sexual abuse charges in Mercer County
Courtney Wallace, 41, of Bluefield, pled guilty in Mercer County Circuit Court to two counts of first degree sexual abuse and one count of third degree sexual abuse. Investigators say a Bluefield Alternative School student made the allegations. sentencing set for August 23 with bond continued.
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Princeton
Mercer County
Timm Boggess
Courtney Wallace
Bluefield
West Virginia
The
Deborah Akers
Mercer County Schools
Boggess
William Sadler
East Coast oil spill expected to be mild caution urged
East Coast scientists say arrival of Gulf spill oil will be gradual and diluted with minimal environmental damage. Forecasts warn tar balls mainly during peak tourist season, not large beach slicks, as Gulf Stream currents pull oil northward toward Georgia and the Carolinas.
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N.C
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic Seaboard
Louisiana
Larry Cahoon
University of North Carolina At
Wilmington
National Center For Atmospheric Research
North Carolina
Tybee Island
Stacye Jarrell
Atlantic
Georgia
Jarrell
Florida Panhandle
East Coast
Miami
Charleston
S.C
Dana Savidge
Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Public University System
John Brubaker
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Chesapeake Bay
Carolinas
Brubaker
West Virginia urges testing after hepatitis B outbreak
Public health officials urged nearly two thousand people in five states and Washington DC to get hepatitis B tests after patients and volunteers at a free dental clinic in Berkeley County West Virginia contracted the disease. Letters are going to 1,137 patients and 826 volunteers from the Mission of Mercy event in June 2009.
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Charleston
Washington, D.C
West Virginia
Danae Bixler
Bureau of Public Health
Mission of Mercy Dental Clinic
Berkeley County
West
Virginia
Panhandler
Diana Gaviria
EPA veto of Spruce Mine sparks 1300 public comments
Morgantown AP report notes more than 1,300 comments come as EPA considers revoking Arch Coal Spruce No 1 mine permit in Logan County due to valley fills that would bury streams and harm water and forests. Industry groups attack agency while supporters frame action as science based.
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Morgantown
Environmental Protection Agency
West Virginia
Twe-Industry
Arch Coal
Logan County
EPA
Appalachia
Philadelphia
Donna Heron
Arch
Kim Link
Ohio Coal Association
USEPA
Association
Michael T.W. Carey
Wyoming
New Mexico
Arizona
Colorado
Illinois
Indiana
Yingling
St. Louis
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