Pocahontas Bluegrass Festival headlined by Ali Shumate
The Pocahontas community hosts the second annual Bluegrass Festival this Friday June 20 at Gaza Kovach Auditorium beginning at 7 p.m. Ali Shumate headlines with Bent Hickory Bluegrass Band and the Country Pride Band also performing along with the Christ First United Methodist Church Old Geezers chorus. Local dignitaries introduce acts as tickets and door prizes offer value, with Bluefield Princeton stadiums and Four Seasons Country praised for entertainment and food options.
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Ali Shumate
McDowell County
Pocahontas
Duke” White
Country Pride
Christ First United Methodist Church “Old Geezers
Veronica Daugherty
Grinnin
Pocahontas Baptist
William Davis
John Barbour
Lion
Bob Baker
Shumate
Anita Brown
Bent Hickory
Florida
Barbour
Four Seasons Country
Princeton
Richlands
Daily Telegraph
Bluefield
Orioles
Baltimore
Jim Holland
Princeton Rays
Holland
Lord, Make Me to Know My End Psalm Verse
An unclear clipping lists staff roles for the Cluefield Daily Telegraph including Thomas A Colley editor Samantha Perry managing editor Andy Patton and Brian Woodson senior editor city editor. The fragment cites a Bible verse Psalm 39:4 AKJV and a garbled phrase about feeling tram jrnae aure.
City weighs new path after failed toll on overdue fees
Bluefield directors halted a $565,000 past due debt recovery contract with National Recovery Agency after only about 5 percent was collected in over a year. With roughly $605,000 total now in delinquent street, fire and garbage charges, officials plan to bid a new local firm and use other resources to pursue balances while balancing debt recovery ethics and city development needs.
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National Recovery Agency
Bill Calhoun
Bluefield
Mark Henne
Letters Response on School Consolidation Comments
A reader, Ann Clemons, recalls 35 years as a teacher in McDowell and Mercer counties and argues students are never merely numbers, urging that individualism be respected in plans to consolidate Pike View High School. Margaret Simmons asks for better pedestrian safety after near collisions with joggers wearing dark clothing on College Avenue.
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Channel 6
Oakvale
W.va
Pike View High School
McDowell
Mercer
Pike View
Ann Clemons
Princeton
College Avenue
Margaret Simmons
Bluefield
Letters to the Editor at Bluefield Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph accepts letters on public issues. Include signature, address, and phone number for consideration. Names will be published. Send opinions to Letters to the Editor Bluefield Daily Telegraph P.O. Box 1599 Bluefield WV 24701.
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Conventional ideas fail to calm grim finances in 2008
Scripps Howard columnist Ann McFeathers notes rising gas prices housing slump layoffs and health costs as campaigns falter. She contrasts Obama and McCain proposals with Bush era "ownership society" while urging fresh ideas to ease cost of living for working families.
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Newsweek
Business Week
Los Angeles Times
Peter Gosselin
Gosselin
America
McCain
Obama
George W Bush
Bush
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