Commissioners approve PCH 4-H kitchen agreement
County commissioners grant conditional approval for Princeton Community Hospital to use Glenwood Park 4H Camp kitchen March 27 through September 26 as part of an $18.9 million renovation. In exchange, PCH will install heating and air in the dining hall and assist with food prep for 4H camps. Concerns about exclusive use were raised. revisions were asked to protect third parties, while the panel also tabled relocation plans for the Those Who Served War Museum and approved a $2,000 topographic survey for Clay Memorial Park.
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Princeton
Princeton Community Hospital
Glenwood Park
PCH
John Anderson
Karen Disibbio
Glenwood Park Advisory Board
Anderson
Park Board
Frances Spencer
Bill Sadler
Greg Pruett
Sadler
Joe Coburn
War Museum
Memorial Building
Museum
Memorial Building Board of Directors
Coburn
Jim Juhl
Memorial Building Board
Bill Blankenship
Disibbio
Clay Memorial Park
Lake Bottom
Tractors blamed in Virginia farm deaths in 1999
Virginia farm deaths in 1999 totaled 15 with tractors causing two thirds of fatalities. Nees died when his overturned tractor lacked a seat belt or roll bar. Bruce Stone notes tractors’ high center of gravity and ongoing undercounting of farm deaths.
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Ken John S. Nees
Edna Nees
Nees
Mrs. Nees
Albemarle County
Stone
Farm Bureau
Virginia
Steve Manheimer
Usda’ Agricultural Statistics Service
Franklin County
Rockingham County
The Coalwood Way details Hickams new memoir
Homer H Hickam has completed The Coalwood Way the second book in his Rocket Boys trilogy It will be published by Dell Publishing in New York this September The memoir covers the 1959 fall and winter in Coalwood and the late life of six Rocket Boys featuring Willie Rose while avoiding rocket launching tales It also hints at a planned third book Summer Sky or A Coalwood Summer and includes Hickams wife Linda as editor portraying town life and harsh realities of the coal town
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Coalwood
Homer H. Hickam
Coalwood Way
Hickam
Rocket Boys
McDowell County
Dell Publishing
New York
Big Creek
Willie Rose
Rose
Bluefield
Five candidates file for Grundy mayor and council seats
Grundy voters head to the polls on May 2 with five candidates filing for town office. Mayor W Harold Trivett is the sole mayoral candidate while four contenders seek three council seats: G Christopher Shortridge Robert Bob Hale Edwin Bunn and Diana S Hagg. Bunn would extend a 17 year tenure if elected and serves as vice mayor. Hagg seeks her first election to the town council, succeeding her late husband Ralph. Hale, a WWII veteran, would begin his 16th term if chosen. Shortridge marks his first election as owner of C J Properties and Development Corp.
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Grundy
W. Harold Trivett
Trivett
Australia
Christopher Shortridge
Robert
Bob” Hale
Vkayor Edwin Bunn
Diana S
Hagg
Chuck Crabtree
Bunn
Crabtree
Ralph
Hale
Buchanan County
Shortridge
C&j Properties and Development Corporation
Boissevain firefighter faces arson charges in pending court date
TAZEWELL VA A court date in Tazewell County Circuit Court is set for Charles W Benfield 25 of Boissevain charged with conspiracy and two counts of arson of an unoccupied dwelling and one count of bomb threat The bomb threat relates to Pocahontas High School last year Judge Donald Mullins has recused himself and a April hearing is planned Benfield remains a member of the Abbs Valley Volunteer Fire Department
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Tazewell
Commonwealth
Dennis Lee
Charles W. Benfield
Boissevain
Lee
Pocahontas High School
Benfield
Tazewell County
Donald Mullins
Abbs Valley Volunteer Fire Department
Bluefield Board Holds Meeting With Local Business Talk
On the agenda for this evening's Bluefield Board meeting Local businessman Art Riley will discuss the city's accounts receivable Representatives of Dermox of West Virginia Hardees requested time to speak The meeting starts at 7 30 p m
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Bluefield Board of Directors
Art Riley
Dermox of
West Virginia
Hardees
Farm death causes rise since 1994 across Virginia
The report lists totals by year from 1994 to 1998, totaling 103 farm deaths. Tractor overturns top the list with 43 cases, followed by tractor runovers at 22 and equipment on public highways at 5. Other, miscellaneous, and animal-related incidents fill the remainder. The figures come from the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation via AP.
Car Crash Fatalities Spark Belt Use Debate
In a 1994 incident eight men rode without seat belts. A 54-year-old Carroll County resident bumped by a roll bar survived but later had fatal injuries when his head was crushed in a January 1999 accident.
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Carroll County
Fire Damages Bluefield Home Suspected Electrical Cause
Bluefield firefighters say a Sunday blaze at 217 Third Street likely started near an entertainment center in the den. The fire fed by flames on the east side reached the second floor, destroying a porch and damaging the roof while the occupants escaped with their cat missing.
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Bluefield
Third Street
Third St
Claude Henderson
Henderson
Gerald Steele
Robert Prunty
Prunty
Steele
Correction clarifies contractor for Princeton church work
A photo caption correction in the Daily Telegraph fixes Jeff Radford’s role. The contractor for the Princeton Episcopal Church of Heavenly Rest on Mercer Street is Fredeking Stafford Construction Co. Inc. of Princeton, not Radford.
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Daily Telegraph
Jeff Radford
Princeton Episcopal Church of Heavenly Rest
Mercer Street
Radford
Fredeking/Stafford Construction Co., Inc
Princeton
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