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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 13, 2002
Page
1
Voters statewide may face unfamiliar procedures on election day with changes at the polls. Officials caution voters to allow extra time and verify polling locations. The report notes potential adjustments in voting procedures and line practices.
McDowell School Board to decide upcoming fate of schools at a special meeting. Area sports highlights noted, with regional scores and events. Girl Scouts celebrate 90 years of scouting nationwide. Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council seeks alumni to connect, with contact details for recruitment.
Charles Owens reports from Coalwood in McDowell County where residents help each other after the May 2 flood. Toni Robbins opened her home to neighbors providing washing, cooking space and showers, despite losing a vehicle but keeping her house largely intact.
In flood-ravaged southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia volunteers, National Guardsmen, and local emergency workers toil at a 45-acre coal sludge impoundment site. DEP coordinators oversee contractors repairing a ruptured decanting pipe that released 5,000 gallons per minute of black water into the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River after the May 2 storm. Authorities say funds from Gov. Wise and DEP Secretary Callaghan enabled the recovery effort.
Mercer County voters prepare for executive committee races amid four year cycle in off year 2002 elections with polls opening 6 30 a m and closing 7 30 p m Local absentee ballot deadline is 1 p m today at the Voter Registration Office in the Mercer County Courthouse Candidates for the executive committee are listed on page A 3.
The 97th annual Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce dinner will be held Friday May 31 at the Bluefield Elks Lodge honoring 1994 Nobel Laureate Dr. John Forbes Nash Jr. Nash, born in Bluefield June 13 1928, reshaped modern economics with his game theory thesis. He will attend with family including his wife Alicia Nash and sons John David Stier and John Charles Martin Nash. Nash’s Roanoke sister Martha Legg also is noted. Dr. John Louthan, a Beaver High School Class of 1945 graduate, is listed as a chamber contact.
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