Summer Employees Hired In McDowell Parks and Pool
McDowell County Commission approved multiple summer hires for Kyle McDowell Pageton Bradshaw War Northfork Premier and Coney Island Parks and the McDowell County Landfill. New posts include groundkeeper Keith Riley Hall and Landfill Accounts Manager Hershel Webb with pay and title changes. Additional staff, including lifeguard David Rose and basket room attendant Kelly O Connor, begin June 14 and July 1 respectively, with duties adjusted for landfill operations and office oversight.
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Daily Telegraph
Welch
McDowell County Commission
Coney Island
Karen Krajc
McDowell County
Kyle
McDowell
Pageton
Bradshaw
War
Northfork
Premier
Keith Riley Hall
Marytown
Riley
Richard Mattocks
Draper
Webb
Mattocks
Krase
B.G. Smith
Smith
James P. Anderson
Clark Belcher
David L. Rose
Ronnie Mark Mathis
Kelly O’conner
Browning Praises Little League Showplace in Princeton
Attorney General Chauncey Browning praised the Bill Anderson Little League Complex on Gardner Road as the state and region’s Little League Showplace during appreciation night. He credited a broad community effort including the Mercer County Commission and local organizations for the project and forecast the finished fields would become a premier site in the eastern United States.
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Daily Telegraph
Princeton
Bill Anderson
Gardner Road
Here
Chauncey Browning
Browning
Mercer County Commission
Anderson Construction
United States
Old County
West Virginia
Athens
Charles Mathena
Mathena
Princeton Elks Lodge
Princeton Moose Lodge
Princeton Jaycees
Allen’s Iga
Douglas Sporting Goods
Ray Bragg
Joe Coburn
Clarence Six
Anderson Construction Company
Pepsi Cola
Oakvale
Cecil’s
Montcalm
Cheds and
Cecil
Clyde Hall
John Jones
Reagan Sandinista tensions flare over arms and borders
The article outlines competing claims between the Reagan administration and Sandinistas in Central America. It reports U S accusations of Marxist influence and arms smuggling by the Sandinistas, while Nicaragua accuses the United States and Honduras of attempts to overthrow it. The Defense Ministry described a recent 600 man invasion force crushed in Nueva Segovia with casualties among both sides in Teotecacinte, north of Managua.
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Stone
Central America
el Salvador
United States
Honduras
Nicaragua
Defense Ministry
Nueva Segovia
Teotecacinte
Managua
Man Arrested For Shoplifting In Bluefield Kroger
A Bluefield man William L. Adkins 58 was arrested on shoplifting and public intoxication after being detained by Kroger manager Joe Starkey at Kroger on Cumberland Road around 10 15 a m Thursday He allegedly took one bottle of wine and one pack of cheese and was released from jail Thursday night per Bluefield Police.
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Bluefield
Kroger’s
Cumberland Road
William L. Adkins
Brooks St
Joe Starkey
Kroger
C.L. Reed
Adkins
Three Juveniles Suspected in East End School Window Vandalism
Bluefield police report three juveniles from Bluefield suspected of breaking windows at the old East End School apartment building on Flanigan Street owned by Magistrate Mike Flanigan of Princeton. Two witnesses near the property saw a youth break a window. one youth was detained and later released to his aunt by order of Magistrate Byrd.
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Bluefield
Flanigan Street
Mike Flanigan
Princeton
Bluefield City
O'Neal
Byrd
D.L. O'Neal
Dam led flood project spurs lake service boom in rural counties
McDowell Wyoming and Mingo residents and out of staters flocked to a seven mile lake opened with a dam project. Dallas Justice expanded his motel and restaurant as tourism grew and Ottaway Trent opened a full sporting goods and marina store in Saeger in 1978. Trent predicts the lake will become a top fishing destination with more facilities and traffic as water levels stabilize. Gas stations near the lake report rising sales of car and boat fuel and fishing gear sales have grown since the lake opened.
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Dallas
Justice
McDowell
Wyoming
Mingo
Ottaway Trent
Trent
Marina and Sporting Goods
Saeger
R.D. Bailey
Holston
Bluestone
Claytor
Blankenship
Gulf Station and
Sporting Goods
Ricky Blankenship
Mercer County Jail Attorney Is Hired
Mercer County Commissioners unanimously hired Princeton attorney McGinnis Hatfield for six months as legal counselor for jail inmates in the Mercer County jail. The $2,500 contract covers 100 hours of work, with a $25 hourly rate if extended. Hatfield will be available 8 am to 4 pm weekdays to meet federal court requirements ordered by Judge John Copenhaver.
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Barbara Hawkins
Daily Telegraph
Princeton
Mercer County Commission
Ray Bragg
Clarence Six
Joe Coburn
McGinnis Hatfield
Mercer County
Hatfield
John Copenhaver
City Man Arrested For Grand Larceny In Bluefield
Bluefield police report Darrell Dwayne Neal 18 of Rt. 2 Bluefield arrested for grand larceny after allegedly stealing a 1979 Chevrolet Pickup from Stop-In Mart on Cherry Street around 2 23 p m Friday. Vehicle recovered on Stadium Drive. bond set at 3000. arraigned before Magistrate Dave Pedneau.
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Bluefield
Eros Construction
Darrell Dwayne Neal
Rt. 2
Cherry Street
C.L. Honaker
Neal
Dave Pedneau
Mercer County
Inv
J.T. Helton
Sgt
Honaker
Stadium Drive
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Gerry Fitt
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Robert Miller
Princeton Office Medical Arts
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Fred Brown
Bonifont Oriental Rug CO
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