Mercer County students reach National Geography Bee level
Three Mercer County students and one from Mountain Mission School in Grundy are among 100 chosen in the two Virginias to compete on the state level in the National Geography Bee. Mercer County schools represented include Straley Elementary Glenwood Elementary and Mercer School.
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Mercer County
Mountain Mission School
Grundy
Virginias
Straley
Glenwood
Mercer School
Volkswagen Seeks Hands Free Parking In New Concept Car
Volkswagen executives researchers and media gathered in New York's Central Park to demonstrate an automatic parking system in the Integrated Research Futura concept car. The system allows hands free parking showcasing a major step beyond previous VW designs.
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Volkswagen
New York
Central Park
Gum flavor lasts longer with new patent claim
Columbia Laboratories of Hollywood Florida has been granted a federal patent for sustained release flavor ingredients in chewing gum. The time element can be tailored to the product and testing showed one flavor lasting five hours. The company does not plan to enter the gum business or engage gum makers at this time.
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Columbia Laboratories
Hollywood
Fla
Helen Witters
Pharmaceutical
Ms. Witters
Bluefield Medical Center Board Reschedules Meeting
The Bluefield Regional Medical Center board of directors meeting is rescheduled to April 10 at 5 30 p m in the hospital board room. A spring hop dance at Princeton Elks Lodge on April 20 from 7 p m to midnight features 50s and 60s music by Brian Baxter with tickets via the Princeton Mercer Chamber, Princeton Public Library, or club members.
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Bluefield Regional Medical Center
Princeton Elks Lodge
Princeton Junior Woman’s Club
Brian Baxter
Princeton-Mercer County
Partly Sunny Weather Forecast For Today
Partly sunny skies are in the National Weather Service forecast. Highs in the mid 60s. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Tonight 80 percent chance of rain after midnight. Lows 40 to 45. Weather package, A-6.
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National Weather Service
Reductions in Force hit West Virginia teachers in 1990
About 1,000 West Virginia teachers were warned they may be laid off by April 1 as enrollments and state finances shrink. Officials warn layoffs will extend beyond WV to California New York Rhode Island and Massachusetts with statewide turnover continuing through the century.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Howard O'Call
West Virginia School Board Association
California
New York
Rhode Island
Providence
Massachusetts
Spangler
U.S. Census Bureau
West Virginia Education Association
Steve Benson
West Virginia Federation of Teachers
Tazewell school head retires early
TAZEWELL Va Tazewell County School Superintendent Frank Cosby will retire Aug 1 under the states early retirement program He is 51 and has 27 years in Virginia schools Cosby will depart after seven years in the post Board chairman Tom Hagg said a replacement will be selected to complete the final two years of his contract by July and the board will discuss candidates at the April 8 meeting
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Tazewell
Tazewell County
Frank Cosby
Virginia General Assembly
Cosby
Virginia
Tom Hagg
Hagg
Charleston teachers to receive $1000 master’s degree bonus
Charleston AP reports a bill costing $13.3 million to grant a $1000 bonus to about 12,000 teachers holding a master’s degree. The expansion raises from three to seven bonus options, building on 1989 onus pay raise law.
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Charleston
Apneg
Bramwell Backlot: Taft Student Film on Bush Visit
Independent producer Rick Doyle shoots a 30 minute film in Bramwell and a farm for PBS. Doyle teaches at Taft School in Watertown Conn and uses students as crew and cast. The Swelter WV tale centers on three residents awaiting a presidential drive by, with filming wrapping this week.
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Bramwell
Rick Doyle
Doyle
Taft School
Watertown
Conn
Hillt Production Co
Hartford
Princeton student notes return of desert service member
Air Force Crew Chief Stephen Thompson, a 1984 Princeton High School graduate, visited his alma mater to thank students who sent letters and care packages to soldiers in Saudi Arabia during Desert Shield. He recalled long drives home, a boring desert tour, and the lesson that graduates fix planes, not fly them.
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Princeton
Goldsboro
N.C
U.S. Air Force
Steven Thompson
Carol Fowler
PHS
Princeton Area
Saudi Arabia
Thompson
Iraq
Alaska
Air Force
88yearold eats 25 eggs daily despite normal cholesterol
Dr Fred Kern Jr of the University of Colorado studied an 88 year old man who eats 25 soft boiled eggs daily yet maintains a normal cholesterol level. He found two strong biological mechanisms that limit cholesterol absorption from the gut and keep blood cholesterol low.
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Luke
Fred Kern Jr
Kern
University of Colorado
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Concord
Mercer County Commission
Norma Mahood
Rene
MONO
Cece
the Nation
Carolyn Spangler
State Department of Education
Bob Brown
Benson
Ceive
Tamala Horn
Tazewell School
Public Broadcasting System
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Eustace Frederick
Bluefield
Frederick
Taft
Kansas
North Dakota
PBS
Swelter
W.va
Bush
Connecticut
Stephen Thompson
George Keatley
Tammy Higginbotham
Melanie Uhi
Beth Robinett
Heather Gill
James Barbery
Associated Press
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