Facility teaches life skills for mental health patients
Southern Highlands Community Mental Health Center offers adult mental health services led by licensed psychologists. The staff work with chronic patients, many without family support, and provide an adult day program teaching daily living skills and running group homes for those in need.
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Princeton
Southern Highlands Community Mental Health Center
Sandy Grimm
Grimm
Southern Highlands
West Virginia to offer drug discounts for seniors by fall
The Golden Mountaineer program will provide prescription drug discounts to West Virginia residents over 60 who hold a state issued card. The Bureau of Senior Services plans to hire a prescription benefits manager to negotiate with drugmakers, with discounts potentially ranging up to 45 percent on some drugs.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Golden Mountaineer
The
Bureau of Senior Services
Ann Stottlemyer
Stottlemyer
Bureau
West
BHS Librarian Promotes Technology to Move the World
Bluefield High School librarian Mary Chmara told Bluefield Rotary Club that the media center now offers Internet capable computers, an Athena card catalog, and CD ROM searches for encyclopedia biography literature science and more. She demonstrated how 125 newspapers 900 books and many scripts can be accessed online and noted the Electric Library is available at school and at home.
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Bluefield
Bluefield High School
Mary Chmara
Bluefield Rotary Club
Chmara
Bluefield High School Media Center
Athena
BHS
Princeton Officers Honor Fallen Colleagues on Police Memorial Day
Princeton police held a Police Memorial Day service in City Council Chambers led by Police Chief Casey Martin with officers and city staff in attendance. Martin noted 150 officers nationwide were killed in 2000, including 51 shot and 48 in auto crashes, while Lt. Harman said 52 have died this year, including Deputy John Lewis Burkett III of Berkeley County Sheriff's Department who died in a Jan. 31 auto accident.
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Princeton
Casey Martin
Martin
Bill Harman
John Lewis Burkett III
Berkeley County
Charles Poe
Scott Hall
Princeton City Council
Court releases McConnell documents in embezzlement case
A court order unseals a 199 page affidavit by forensic examiner Harry J. Potter alleging J Knox McConnell embezzled 5.84 million dollars from First National Bank of Keystone via illegal due diligence payments between 1992 and 1997. The FDIC claims losses include 3.3 million in interest.
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Bluefield
First National Bank of Keystone
U.S
David A. Faber
West Virginia
Grant
Thornton
LLP
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
J. Knox McConnell
Harry J. Potter
Potter
McConnell
Marbil, Inc
FDIC
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Eric DiNovo
Mary McDowell
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Ashley Musick
Sarah Blevins
Interact Club
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John Nelson
Kenneth Murphy
Bluefield Middle
South Pole
Murphy
U.S. Geologic Survey and Scientific Research Group
Karen Simmee
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