Supervisors approve purchase of Richlands industrial site
The Tazewell County Board of Supervisors voted to buy the 13.7 acre former casket factory site in Richlands from Omar Dunn and Bill Keene for 485000. Payment includes 242500 on contract signing after environmental reviews. The board also adopted the 1997 98 county budget of about 27 million and approved salary increases while considering but not acting on the leachate pond for the Divides Hawks Heights sewer project.
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Tazewell
Richlands
Jerry Wood
Wood
Hawks Heights
Bluefield
SummerFest hailed as success by PMCCC
Princeton Mercer Chamber calls SummerFest a super success after 20000 attendees at Princeton Senior High School and practice field. Rick Kephart commends Linda Mangus and Jigger Smith for leadership while Mangus notes next year plans and possible site loss due to a new elementary school. Lanton previews a July Business Expo and the 1997 Christmas ornament featuring a 1948 Virginian Railway coal hopper. ornaments go on sale in October.
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Princeton
Princeton-Mercer County Chamber of Commerce
PMCCC
Princeton Senior High School
Rick Kephart
Linda
Mangus
Jigger Smith
George Lanton
the Thunderbirds
A Lumber
Jack
Lanton
Chamber
Douglas Center
Kristin Alls
Kephart
Virginian Railway
Bramwell hosts 10th annual Homecoming Weekend schedule
Bramwell's Homecoming Weekend continues with a 10 a.m. Millionaire Mountain Climb and a slate of events through Saturday. Alumni basketball games, a 5:30 p.m. gathering honoring the 1967 undefeated team, a Weenie Roast, a Downtown stroll, more alumni games, and a Saturday night Lock Hop at Bluefield City Auditorium are listed by organizer Lou Stoker.
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Bramwell - Bramwell
Bramwell
Lou Stoker
Bramwell High School
BHS
Bluefield City Auditorium
Former justice wins appeal for Bluefield partnership
The West Virginia Supreme Court unanimously granted former Justice Richard Neely’s appeal. He represents a Bluefield partnership leasing coal and natural gas reserves in McDowell County. The group alleges a well was drilled and gas sold for nearly a decade without royalties or knowledge of the partnership.
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Charleston
State Supreme Court
Richard Neely
Neely
Bluefield
McDowell County
Kendrick King
Supreme Court
Woman charged with murder has cancer surgery
SAN JUAN Puerto Rico AP A West Virginia woman accused of murdering a Caribbean boat taxi driver underwent cervical cancer surgery Thursday to remove cancerous tissue. Penella Fletcher 35 and husband James Fletcher 49 of Huntington face trial this summer for the murder of Jerome Jolly Joseph in St Vincent and the Grenadines. They were jailed since October and could face death by hanging if convicted. Doctors said a surgeon froze a section of her cervix and removed cancerous tissue at Kingstown General Hospital.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
West Virginia
Penella Fletcher
James Fletcher
Huntington
Jerome “Jolly
Joseph
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
St. Vincent
Bequia
Grenadine Island
Pastor warns of fund-raiser hoax in Cashmere area
Pastor John Offenberger of the Cashmere Baptist Church says a door-to-door fundraising scam is operating in Rich Creek, with men soliciting money on behalf of the church and pocketing funds. He denies any church drive and has alerted local law enforcement.
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Rich Creek
Monroe County
John Offenberger
Cashmere Baptist Church
Offenberger
Accident victim released from hospital in I-77 wreck
Richard Radford 28 was treated and released from Princeton Community Hospital after a Wednesday crash on I-77. A rear tire burst caused his Ford F-150 to crash into a tractor-trailer and guard rail. Passenger Eddie Taylor 26 was upgraded from guarded to stable.
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Princeton
Princeton Community Hospital
Richard Radford
Radford
PCH
Eddie Taylor
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