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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 2000
Page
1
Mercer County voters face a tight campaign stretch in the 25th House District race with polling places, endorsements, and convention delegates shaping the tail end of the campaign.
Bluefield College in Virginia conferred 140 degrees at the 78th annual spring commencement. President Dan MacMillan presided as grads packed Harman Chapel, with two student speakers, Michael Tanner Cline and James Vance, delivering remarks on purpose and service.
Princeton Mercer County voters head to the polls Tuesday to choose Democratic and Republican nominees in the 2000 primary. With five Democratic races and a tight non partisan Board of Education contest the outcome hinges on turnout, which observers say could rise with the weather. Contests include State Senate District 10 between Norris Kantor Anita Skeens Caldwell and incumbent Homer Ball, Sheriff with D B Meadows and Danny Wills challenging Harold Buckner, and four contenders for one Circuit Court Judge seat. Campaigns have grown heated as candidates exchange charges in the final push.
Bent Mountain, a seven mile horseshoe ridge north of Athens off Route 20, has drawn residents for 150 years. Grace Caldwell, 82, recalls moving here with her late husband in 1939 after being born nearby. She notes the Sunrise Chapel Church, a former one room schoolhouse Woodrow turned church in the 1950s, as a local landmark. Caldwell calls Bent Mountain a quiet, out of the way community she prefers.
More than 800 Boy Scouts from West Virginia Virginia and Kentucky converged on Twin Falls State Park for the Buckskin Council Spring Camporee May 5 7. Activities included zip line rapelling whitewater rafting on the New River rifle and archery contests a falconry show and a Mary Ingles Trail Play with concerts by Penny Justice and Delbert Kizer. Troops from Mercer Monroe McDowell Raleigh Summers Fayette and Wyoming counties in WV and Giles Bland and Tazewell counties in VA participated with plans for leadership and citizenship training and a three day event plus a radio station set up by East River Amateur Radio Club observers noted Scouts enjoyed the programs and fellowship.
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