Grundy Golden Wave win 15th state wrestling title
Grundy High School captures its second straight and 15th overall Virginia state wrestling championship at the Salem Civic Center. The Golden Wave finishes with 246.5 points to Christiansburg 167.5 as seven Grundy wrestlers reach finals or semifinals. Aaron Elswick loses in the 125 pound final while Tyde Prater, Canaan Prater and Albert Childress defend titles.
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Alem
Grundy
Golden Wave
Salem Civic Center
Grundy Grapplers
Christiansburg
Golden
Wave
Childress
Pruitt
Stiltner
Dales Elswick
Brown
Handley
Wise aims for giant West Virginia drug purchasing pool
Gov. Wise pursues two bills to create a statewide drug purchasing pool uniting PEIA, CHIP, Corrections, Worker's Comp, Medicaid, state hospitals, insurers, and big firms for lower prices. A companion measure would establish a private prepaid pharmacy service to cover West Virginians and small businesses with monthly premiums.
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Wise
Susman
PEIA
Children’s Health Insurance Program
Division of Corrections
West
Senior Prescription Assistance Program applications available
Mercer County seniors can apply for SPAN II at the Commission on Aging after SPAN I aids. Director Beverly Cresong explains the program mails a prescription card enabling eligible seniors to pay state PEIA prices, with savings varying by medication. one senior saved over twenty dollars on a two hundred dollar prescription.
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Rinceton
Mercer County
Mercer County Commission On Aging
Stafford Drive
Princeton
Beverly Cresong
Charleston
Cresong
State Public Employees Insurance Agency
PESA
Former Rocket Boy challenges West Virginia to find its passion
Homer Hickam keynote speaker at the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce annual session urged leaders to emulate the Rocket Boys, urging a sequential plan to invigorate the state’s economy. He criticized highway design cancellations, called for an airport, and urged a clear A B C plan to make West Virginia all it can be.
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Rocket Boy
West Virginia
Charleston
Homer Hickam
Hickam
Coalwood
Riley
Drug war comes to Tazewell County with watchdog billboards
Sheriff H S Caudill launches a public relations campaign to combat prescription drug abuse in Tazewell County. A trio of billboards along Route 19 460 in Bluefield and near Lincolnshire Park urge residents to report crime and note drugs as a focus, with a fourth planned for rotation across Bluefield, Tazewell, and Claypool Hill.
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H.S. Caudill
Bluefield
Lincolnshire Park
Tazewell County
Caudill
Claypool Hill
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Bluefield High School
Allison Spadaro
Denise Lewis
TAZ
Charles Owens
Lotteries
Daily
Ry Very Uy
Southview Mallet Sales & Pawn
Bluewell
Nathan Belcher
Mercer County Sheriff's Dept
Joe
Abby
Jane Fonda
Harvard University
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Ebbada
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