Saltville memorial honors 5th and 6th US Colored Cavalry
About 25 residents from Mercer McDowell and Tazewell counties joined the Sixth Annual Memorial and Remembrance Service for the 5th and 6th US Colored Cavalry in Saltville Virginia. The event honored African American Union troops executed after the Battle of Saltville on Oct 2 1864. Organizers Aliesta and Harold Wells lead a youth group that places luminaries and flags at Saltville Battlefield Overlook. The service featured local officials pastors and state Senator Phillip Puckett with colors posted by Union and Confederate units and a rifle salute before taps.
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Saltville
Mercer
McDowell
Tazewell
US Colored Cavalry
5Th
6Th Uscc
Congress
Fort Pillow
Tenn
Aliesta Wells
Wells
Harold Wells
Saltville Battlefield
Scott Street
Bluefield
Riley-West
American Legion
Roselawn Memorial Cemetery
Princeton
Garry Moore
Moore
Lewis
Tim Hairston
Mt. Ebenezer Baptist Church
Algoma
Todd French
White Memorial Ame Zion Church
Middlesboro
Phillip P Puckett
D-Russell
39Th
Kentucky Mounted Infantry
Company E
A.J. Lawson
22Nd
Virginia Cavalry
Jim Boardwine
Karl Miller
Joe Bundy
Martin Robison Delaney
Miller
James Sims
Cecil Bullard
Blue Ridge Job Corps Choir
Marion
Jennifer Merritts
Deacon Samuel Johnson
Gary
USCC
Bill Archer
Barcher
Bottonline
Second LaCrosse Encephalitis case confirmed in Tazewell
A second human case of LaCrosse Encephalitis was confirmed in Tazewell County by the Cumberland Plateau Health District. The child became ill in late July and was hospitalized out of state, with University lab results confirming the tree hole mosquito borne virus. The child has recovered.
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Tazewell
Tazewell County
Cumberland Plateau
John J. Dreyzehner
Dreyzehner
Bland County lands ABB expansion in Virginia
Governor Warner announced ABB will expand in Bland County adding high density power transformer production. The move includes a $100,000 Governor's Opportunity Fund grant and $150,000 Tobacco Region funds. Local officials cited economic development gains and pledged援 federal aid for a new Bland County Volunteer Fire Department tanker truck.
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Bland County
Southwest
Virginia
Warner
ABB
Commonwealth of Virginia
Zurich
Switzerland
Europe
Frank Chandler
Chandler
U.S. Department of Defense
Governor’s Opportunity Fund
Virginia Tobacco
del. Benny Keister
Dpulaski
Benny
Charles Owens
Cowens
Bdtonline
Police investigate cleaners break in Bluefield
Bluefield police investigate an unusual break in at Uptown Cleaners on Bland Street. Det. Brian Kahle reports the entry occurred between September 25 at 6 p.m. and September 26 at 7:30 a.m. Items moved, two neckties missing belonging to Bluefield Police Chief C N Blizzard and city attorney John Feuchtenberger.
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Luefield
Bluefield
Brian Kahle
Bland Street
Michael Fender
Fender
C.N
Butch” Blizzard
John Feuchtenberger
Feuchtenberger
Wellness center campaign off to good start in Tazewell
In Tazewell Virginia the Four Seasons Wellness Center fund drive has raised over 2.25 million toward a five million goal. The project would adjoin the hospital campus and include a gym pool indoor track racquetball court and more with enhanced physical therapy operations relocating to the new center. Call 276 988 8720 to contribute.
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Tazewell
Four Seasons
Hop
Ing
Shelley Keene Hicks
Tazewell Community Hospital
Hicks
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