Athens Volunteers Tackle Spring Clean-Up And Restoration
Athens residents joined 20 crews led by Carol Bard to fix sidewalks and lay cement across town, with Concord University students among about 100 participants. Rain aided dust control and cooling, as plan for next year calls for a different project, possibly Habitat for Humanity or painting fire hydrants. Anawalt postpones its town clean-up due to rain.
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Athens
Carol Bard
Bard
Concord University
Habitat For Humanity
Sowers Named 2005 Boy Scouts Distinguished Citizen
Walter K L Buck Sowers of Bluefield Virginia, chairman and CEO of Pemco Corporation, has been named the 2005 Boy Scouts of America Distinguished Citizen. He credits mentors including Ned Shott and emphasizes community support in his development and success. He has served on Bluefield State College Foundation Board and chaired the Tazewell County Economic Development Commission.
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Luefield
Walter K L
Buck” Sowers
Ned Shott
Sowers
Bluefield
Pemco Corporation
Boy Scouts of America
Bluefield State College Foundation
Tazewell County Economic Development Commission
Bluefield Va considers annexation to support growth
Bluefield Virginia plans a friendly annexation to expand its borders for continued growth. Town Manager Todd Day will present the proposal to Tazewell County supervisors, seeking verbal approval to avoid premature spending. The plan covers St Clair property, Graham Recreational Park, Route 720, Crescent View Apartments, and aims to bind existing limits to new areas for business and residential expansion.
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Bluefield
Day
Applebee’s
Bob Evans
Tazewell County
St. Clair
Graham Recreational Park
Crescent View
Board of Supervisors
Charles Owens
Cowens
Bottonline
Illiteracy Fight Requires Frontline Efforts Across Society
The author argues literacy decline stems from a years-long reading gap harming job prospects and fueling crime and economic drain. Most illiterate adults do not read newspapers or vote, limiting political voice and funding for literacy. Medical illiteracy alone costs billions, escalating taxes and social costs.
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Fter
United States
Senators Star Porterfield a Bluefield bank PR man story
EWPORT Virginia recounts Bob Porterfield a longtime MLB pitcher who spent a brief off season as a public relations man for Flat Top Bank in Bluefield now First Community Bank. The narrative covers his career from Radford to the Yankees and Senators, a 22 10 season win loss mark, local Bluefield ties and post career hall of fame induction.
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Ewport
Erwin Coolidge
Bob” Porterfield
Bluefield
Flat Top National Bank
First Community Bank
Porterfield
Giles County
Robert “Poo Eye” Smith
Cecile “Cis” Barrett
Robinette
Barrett
Heber Stafford
Frederick R
Ted” Yost
Cox Department Store
Federal Street
Flat Top Bank
Henry Ink
Yost
Bob Porterfield
Flat Top
Virginia Sports Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame
Portsmouth
George Francisco
Virginia Sports Hall of
University of Kentucky
Ralph Beard
Marilyn
Bluefield Blue Grays
Eva Easley
Easley
Beards
Lexington
West Virginia University
Morgantown
Beard
NBA
Indianapolis Olympians
Olympians
Ralph
Pinehurst
N.C
Louisville
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By Adria Hairston
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Anawalt
Tom Bone
Vermillion Street
Calvin Cole
Norman Cole
Patricia Edge
Robert Richardson
Bill Archer
Senators
Hoop
West Virginia
Southwestern Virginia
Coalfield League
Stan Musial
Williamson Colts
Church
Midway Church of Christ
East River Mountain
WVVA
Midway
Dan Webb
Webb
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