Marathon to replace Blue Flash Oil outlets in region
Blue Flash Oil Co announced a major brand change with Dan Akers stating the 12 area outlets will switch to Marathon branding by August 1 while ownership remains. Locations include Princeton Beckley Bluefield Mullens Speedway Falls Mills and Bland Virginia with expansion planned. Marathon is a subsidiary of USA with $11.6 billion assets.
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Blue Flash Oil Co
Dan Akers
Blue Flash
Marathon
Beckley
Bluefield
Mullens
Speedway
Falls Mills
Bland
Blue
Heilig-Myers reports record first quarter earnings and sales
Heilig-Myers Co owner of several Bluefield area stores reports a record first quarter with earnings up 41.6 percent to 10.5 million and revenue up 21.2 percent to 150 million from 124.5 million. Also notes TV show To Fly Away rankings and local civic updates including Bluefield public hearing on US 52 route changes and a call for donations to the Mercer County Humane Society.
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Heilig-Myers Co
Bluefield
Memorial Services Held for Vivian Taylor Rubin
Memorial services were held here for Vivian Taylor Rubin of New York wife of retired Steinway Piano vice president David Rubin. Their daughter Dr Capers Kuhnert a psychologist in Germany, and her husband Nickolas Kuhnert, publisher of an architectural magazine, attended. Mrs Rubin was sister of Edwin Taylor of Bland Road. Visitors were impressed by Bluefield.
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Bluefield
Vivian Taylor Rubin
New York
David
Steinway
Capers Kuhnert
Germany
Nickolaus Kuhnert
Regional Briefs Cover Area News Highlights
BLUEFIELD David Neal buys Nell Mann home at 1404 Whitethorn from Sherri Lambert and Dorothy Mabe. Judy Neal and three children reside with him. he works at Tinder's Truck World Bristol branch. BLUEFIELD Mary Knupp promoted to sales director of The Ramada Inn. Dan Shortridge notes the move. A Princeton native with a travel management degree, she attends Matoaka Baptist with her son Scotty. BLUEFIELD Bungee jumping at Drew carnival banned in Roanoke and Virginia Beach due to danger. BLAND Va. I-77 Big Walker Mountain Tunnel 20th anniversary celebration limited to news media and invited guests. tunnel cost $22 million, five years to build. Princeton Linkenhaker relocates Link's Service Center to 1600 North Walker St. stopped selling gasoline after Texaco left. in 1988 he was Texaco's top Roanoke area achiever. His mother Virginia Kitts is a Scott & Stringfellow retiree. his son Mark works with him.
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David Neal
Tinder's Truck World
Nell Mann
Whitethorn St
Sherri Lambert
Dorothy Mabe
Neal
Bristol, Tenn
Judy
Mary Knupp
Dan Shortridge
Announces
Princeton
Concord
Rho Epsilon Beta Little Sisters
Matoaka Baptist Church
Scotty
Big Walker Mountain
Bud
Linkenhaker
North
Walker St
Texaco
Roanoke
Virginia Kitts
Scott & Stringfellow
Mark
Coal Miners Opry Could Boost Boissevain Blue Grass Festival
The June 13 Coal Miners Opry at Boissevain Museum Park drew on memories of early Bluefield Coal Shows and may revive crowd-pleasing feats like a coal queen contest and pioneer miners reunion. Local figures consider adding these features to expand the festival while preserving core bluegrass and country music.
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Bluefield
N&w
Dave Phipps
Boissevain Museum
Opry
Phipps
Edna Drosick
Pocahontas
E.C
Ted) Luther
Peerless
Coal & Coke
Luther
Joy Technologies signs exclusive HWM license with Addington
Joy Technologies Inc. announces an exclusive 14 year license with Addington Resources for manufacturing and servicing high wall mining systems using Joy continuous miners. The system mines coal from exposed seams along high walls, enabling extraction up to 1000 feet in length with cascading conveyor cars. R.C. Moon Mullins outlines the design and regional impact.
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Joy Technologies Inc
Addington Resources Inc
High Wall Mining Systems
HWM
Joy
Pittsburgh
John Hanson
Mining Machinery Division
Addington
West Virginia
Kentucky
Ohio
R.C. Moon" Mullins
Mullins
MM&A key to completion of Virginia airport at Tazewell
Marshall Miller & Associates led the Tazewell County Virginia airport project after acquiring Willis & Skeens in 1989. The firm expanded to handle civil, geotechnical, environmental and soils engineering, completing a major earthwork program atop Kent’s Ridge and planning additional airports in Lee County Dublin Wise County and Marion.
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Mm&a
Tazewell County
Bluefield
Willis & Skeens
Miller
Tazewell
Kents Ridge
Lee County
Virginia
New River Valley
Dublin
Blue Ridge
Martinsville
Lonesome Pine
Wise County
Mountain Empire
Marion
Dennis Willis
Virginia Review
Richmond
Ellen Allen
Marshall Miller
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Keith McKenzie
New Cherry St. Mortuary
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Bramwell
Cherry Street
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Rocky Gap
Alvester McConnell
United Holy Church
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Jack Harry
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Mona Peters
Bluewell
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Pocahontas First
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Josephine McDougle
Southport
Pisgah Museum
Friends of the Museum
Pisgah
Virginia Barns
Elizabeth Johnston-Brittain
Robert Gillespie
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TV Guide
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University of Georgia
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Humane Society Appeal
Mercer County Humane Society
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