Get A Life program teaches budgeting and education value
Bluefield High School students took part in the eighth annual Get-A-Life program led by Mercer County Public School System volunteers and BHS staff. The activity gave students a real life budget task, showing how education affects future earnings and family finances.
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Bluefield
Joe E. Lewis
Bluefield High School
Mercer County Public School System
BHS
Sandy Gallimore
Glenda Lawson
Jacinda Lawton
Smith
Mercer
County Board of Education
Kim Rotenberry
Tor
McTec Center
Princeton
Mike Collins
Mercer County School Board
Anna Lilly
Gallimore
Larry Hypes
Joy Hubbard
Angela Fidele
Chaz Cole
Miranda Mangino
Belle Booker
Kay’onna Smith
Consula Walton
Keep Mercer Clean Campaign Gains Momentum
Mercer County launches the third annual Keep Mercer Clean Campaign led by Commissioner Greg Puckett. Volunteers report enthusiastic participation as the first official cleanup is set for March 25 at Glenwood Park Road near Aqua Pro, with Bluefield High School Key Club supplying a Rocky the Raccoon coloring book mascot to educate and motivate residents.
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Princeton
Mercer County
Greg Puckett
Puckett
Glenwood Park Road
Ramey Ford
Bluefield High School
Key Club
Rocky the Raccoon
Rocky
Mercer Clean
West Virginia jobless rate dips to 5.2 percent in February
West Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 5.2 percent in February, down 0.4 percentage point. Unemployed residents dropped by 3,300 to 40,300 while total nonfarm payrolls rose 1,700 with gains in construction 700 leisure and hospitality 500 manufacturing 400 financial activities 400 and mining and logging 300. Trade, transportation and utilities shed 600 jobs. The national rate eased to 4.7 percent.
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West Virginia
Charleston
Man pleads guilty to four sex crime charges
Princeton man Jerald Hatcher 39 pleaded guilty in Mercer County Circuit Court to four sex crime counts in a plea deal. He admitted two sexual abuse by a parent or guardian counts and two sexual assault counts. Sentencing was set for May 31. he remains jailed at Southern Regional Jail.
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Princeton
Mercer County
Derek Swope
Jerald Hatcher
Hatcher
Swope
Southern Regional
Court sets dates in Hartley Graham case over brutal beating
Graham and Wayne Hartley face pretrial dates for a brutal January attack on Patricia Hartley. Graham allegedly bludgeoned her with a rolling pin and Hartley reportedly aided in the assault and attempted to flee with Graham. Prosecutors seek separate trials and depositions, with psychiatric evaluations scheduled for March and April.
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Wayne Hartley
Graham
Janet Williamson
Hartley
Jay Williams
Bill Huffman
Sadler
Patricia Hartley
Adams
Bluefield Regional Medical Center
Charleston Area Medical Center
CAMC
J.B. Fox
Wayne
Arrowhead
Jimmy Lewis Lake
Bluewell
Kee Dam
Fox
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Rotenberry
Maggie Jones
Ethan Harvey
Jones
Harvey
Keep Mercer Clean
Charles Boothe
East River Avenue
Pearl Street
James Street
ST. Patrick’s
Nares
Toyota
Chiropractic Clinic
Jeffrey A. Williams
D.C
Westwood Medical Park
Bluefield, WV
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