City Board hears pleas for help in fighting crime
Bluefield residents and business leaders urge action at the June City Board meeting as juvenile crime and park safety prompt proposals for a citywide Neighborhood Watch and a modest per household protection fee to fund more police and patrols. A public hearing is set for June 12 on park security fees.
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Bluefield
Sharon Perkinson
South
J.M. Godwin, Jr
Mike Poe
South Bluefield
Delores French
John Feuchtenberger
French
Bill Looney
Cliff Pannell
Bluefield City Park
Pannell
Robert M. Richardson
Library Commission
St. Luke's Hospital
EPA
Joy Manufacturing
Washington Street
Bramwell PSD project costs and resident concerns rise
The minimum monthly bill is about 25.60 with no set maximum. The project overrun totaled 1 million since bids in 1992, and Stafford Consultants peg cost per customer at 13 500. Residents B J Kahle and Wesley Eller raised blast related issues from March 11 including driveways damaged by jackhammer and dynamite.
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Vinciguerra
Stafford
Randy Bolton
B.J. Kahle
Wesley Eller
PSD
Eller
Taylor and Striegle
Bolton
Wilder submits 34000 signatures to run for governor in Richmond
Wilder delivered two cardboard boxes of petitions to the State Board of Elections in the afternoon claiming 34000 signatures, more than double the 14800 needed. As the nation’s first elected black governor he plans a Saturday campaign announcement at a Church Hill picnic, noting there will be no turning back. He had earlier wavered about challenging Robb and delayed the bid until after leaving office.
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Wilder
State Board of Elections
Church Hill
Richmond
Robb
Local votes trim turnout in Buchanan County precincts
Goode finished second with 119 votes while Spannaus had 18 and Clute earned zero. Buchanan County turnout was low with 864 residents voting, according to a circuit clerk spokesman. An unidentified issue was reported at two precincts, details not immediately available.
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Goode
Spannaus
Clute
Buchanan County
Ward bound over in Mercer County armed robbery case
Magistrate James Dent bound over Scott D. Ward 33 of Athens to the grand jury on charges of armed robbery and malicious wounding for alleged May 2 pool stick attack at Last Re sort in Athens plus robbery. Darnell H. Bryant 30 of Tazewell Street Bluefield faces malicious assault charges sent to the grand jury.
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Mercer County
James Dent
Scott D. Ward
Athens
Ward
Darnell H. Bryant
Tazewell Street
Bluefield
Police blotter items from Princeton area WV
West Virginia State Police Princeton saw Eric Wayne Cox charged with destruction of property. Anthony L. Lilly faced brandishing and discharging a firearm near a dwelling in Princeton Beckley Road area. A shoplifting incident at Vidiots on South Walker Street involved a 9 year old. no charges. A hit and run on Mercer Street involved Michael E. Davis’s parked vehicle. A traffic stop on Lower Pine Street yielded confiscated drug paraphernalia and three pills. charges pending. Sheriff’s reports note stolen lawn mower on Middlesex Avenue. boat trailer and outboard motor from Woodrow Williams Route 5 Bluefield. jacket from Jimmie Chapman Princeton Village. homemade Dune Buggy from Brenda Botham Route 9 Princeton. burglary on Peggy Branch Road Steve Martin residence.
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W.va
Princeton Matoaka
Eric Wayne Cox
R.A. Keaton
Princeton
Anthony L. Lilly
Gott Street
Beckley Road
D.L. Spradlin
C.E. Mitchem
P.W. Hill
W.A. Peery
Vidiots
Uth Walker Street
Mercer Street
Michael E. Davis
Lashmeet
Route 5
Bluefield
R.L. Kessinger
Jimmie Chapman
Princeton Village
W.C. Wilborn
Mercer County May Divorces Recorded in Circuit Court
Mercer County Circuit Court records list divorces for May including pairs such as Jerry Cooper and Rebecca Wright, Carl Sayers and Karen Steven, and Mark Lester and Trish Ann, along with many other couples. The list names both parties in each dissolution.
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Mercer County Circuit Court
Erry Wayne Bowman
Deborah Lynn
Robbie James Williams
Christina
Gregory Neil Hines
Donna Jean Quesenberry
Williams B. Harmon
Shirley C. Holdren
Jerry Mac Cooper
Rebecca Lynn Wright
Larry C. Bowman
Loretta M.a Grubb
Kathryn Gundell
Mark T. White
Lana S. Lane
Robert L. Ruble
Neshia M. Gerald
Steven Shulock
Susan Delaine Sheets
Carl Junior Sayers
Karen Sue Steven
Matthew Lambert
Patricia Ann O'Donnell
Edwin Maxey
Nancy Lilly
Gregory B. Blankenship
Pamela
James Milton Brady
Trula Mae
David Alan Noel
Tara Akers
Mark W. Lester
Trish Ann
John A. Lusk
Julie William P. Cole
Teresa S. Cory Lee Byrd
Sandra Kay Boggs
Leslie R. Catron
Betty R. Pengergrass
Allan Keith Reid
Karen Sue Todd Maxwell Johnson
Yvonne Layne Evans
Allen Ray Brown Jr
Diane Gilpin
Bobby Gene Hardin
Minta Lou Shrewsbury
David W. Treole
Lorraine S. Amos
Daniel Taylor
Rita Ann Gibson
Barry Douglas Jenkins
An Wesley Allen Bailey
Heather de
Bluefield Va Links Park Funds to Proposed Water Line
Bluefield Virginia towns threaten to use 134,248 dollar escrow to extend water and sewer lines to the Bluefield Divides and a nine acre park shell building. PSA talks with Tazewell County Board of Supervisors stall as escrow funding could offset park development costs totaling about 280 thousand dollars.
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Tazewell
Bluefield
PSA
Shell
Tazewell County Economic Development Commission
Tazewell County Board of Supervisors
Christy Parker
Commission
Board of Supervisors
Art Mead
Lewes
Mead
Road contract added to state bids in West Virginia
Governor Caperton announced a Mercer County project to widen and straighten Mercer 27/3 from U S 460 to 27/9 to improve access near the U S 460 and I 77 area amid rising traffic at the information center and nearby businesses. New bridge work in McDowell Mercer and Monroe counties is part of $11.6 million in recently awarded contracts.
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Charleston
Princeton
Division of Highways
Gaston Caperton
Caperton
Mercer County
U.S. 460
McDowell
Mercer
Monroe
Compton Enterprises Inc
Pepsi Cola
Daves Fork
County
McDowell County
Robert Construction Company
Louisa
Gilco
U.S. 52
Tug Fork
Indian Creek
McCoy Construction Company
Salt Rock
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Godwin
Brammer
Knoxville
Tenn
Bramwell
A-1
Rawls
Grout
Law
NEW Graham Pharmacy
Graham
Virginia
Magistate Court
Daily Record
Brenda Botham
Route 9
Peggy Branch Road
Steve Martin
K.R. Earnest
Jessie F. Harris
Margaret L. Lewis
Burkey Meadows
Ruby Elisee
Jerry Dwight Belcher
Barbara Marie Hampton
Raymond Lee Parker
Beverly Elaine Johnston
Lakeview
Hawks Heights
Bowers
Lashmeet Builders’ Club
Pipestein
Salvation Army
Southern Hills
Lashmeet/Matoaka school
Brian McKinney
Melissa Bennett
Heather Martin
Asphalt Industries, Inc
Hiawatha-Springton Road
Bluestone Paving, Inc
Sandlick-Princeton
Bull Tail Hollow
Berwind Mountain
Lawrence
Robert T. Gardner
Lawrence Optical
North Street
bi-Rite
Westgate
Bluefield College
College Avenue
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