Reenactment clash at Pigeon's Roost ends day with corpses
In a 35 minute battle reenactment, three Rebels and 21 Yankees died as Union forces evacuated Princeton. Confederate troops held Pigeon's Roost while First West Virginia Light Artillery commander Kelso Marple claimed a Union victory on day one. Grandson David Marple acted as powder monkey amid a scene described as family oriented.
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Jacob Dolson Cox
Princeton
Carlton Smith
Pigeon
West Virginia Light
Clarksburg
Kelso Marple
Bob Whipkey
Clarkburg
Marple
Whipkey
David Marple
Keith Hedrick
Justice Burger and his landmark rulings on liberty and obscenity
The article notes Chief Justice Warren Burger shaped desegregation access to courts and protections for women, authored the 1974 Watergate tape ruling that pressured Nixon to resign, and wrote the 1973 obscenity standard. It also covers his 1971 religious freedom decision and later critique of the three part test.
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A-1
Nixon
White House
Burger
Daily Record Police Blotters Bluefield Report
Bluefield police blotter items list incidents on Orange Street Fourth Street Woodlawn Manor Mount View Avenue Marellen Avenue Third and Pearis streets North Street Cumberland Road Cumberland Road Cumberland Road including a non located domestic incident vandalism to a mailbox break in a fight hit and run attempted theft and a disturbance involving six juveniles with multiple officers investigating each case.
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Bluefield
Orange Street
G.A. Ruth
K.C. Hazuka
Fourth St
J.M. Bailey
Woodlawn Manor
G.A. Haynes
Mt. View Avenue
W.T. Jones
Marellen Ave
G.W. Lightfoot
Third
Pearis
North Street
J.D. Lawson
Cumberland Road
J.A. Jones
Reenactment Campfires Bring Civil War Bonds of Nation
The piece portrays an infantry dream versus a cavalry nightmare as terrain decides fate. It highlights reenactment as a lifestyle and praises the people at campfires, noting that regardless of North or South, all who fought were Americans.
Body found in flood aftermath near U.S. 460
In Lynchburg Virginia authorities recovered the body of Doris Stanley 58 of Forest found about a half mile from U S 460 after her car was seen abandoned in Buffalo Creek. She died from floodwaters released by a breached dam at Timberlakes subdivision Campbell County.
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Lynchburg
Bob Stout
Doris Stanley
Forest
U.S. 460
Campbell
Bedford
Buffalo Creek
Carter Martin
Lynchburg General Hospital
Energy Express students meet today in Princeton
Princeton students enrolled for the Energy Express summer reading and nutrition program meet at Montcalm Wade and Knob elementary schools at 8 a.m. today. Enrollment is first come, first served with no charge or income restrictions. Brenda Pruett of the WVU Extension Service explains the program offers breakfast, lunch, and educational activities.
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Princeton
Energy Express
Montcalm
Wade
Knob
Brenda Pruett
WVU Extension Service
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Taz
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Brunk’s Sales & Service Center
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Daria Niswander
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Mary Paynte
Keith Holman
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D.C
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