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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 2012
Page
4
Samantha Perry recounts a hectic period at the Daily Telegraph with breaking Bluefield shooting coverage. Readers are reminded of online editions at bdtonline com and video at bdtvideo com.
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph lists staff roles including News Editor Sports Editor Darryl Hudson Publisher Andy Patton and editors Brian Woodson Samantha Perry Cha Bill Archer Iles Owens with the motto It is an honor for a man to cease from strife but every fool will be meddling from Proverbs 20 3 AKJV.
Bluefield faces renewed fears over closing the city jail after an inmate died by hanging while awaiting transfer to Southern Regional Jail. City officials urge restraint and call for input, debate, and regional cooperation to weigh keeping the jail open versus closure, with talks on funding, security, and impacts on Mercer County law enforcement.
A reader from Route 20 between Glenwood and Princeton reports seven to ten years of intermittent outages, about four or five times weekly and longer when cold, risking home damage or fire. The letter demands accountability from Appalachian Power and notes the Princeton Daily Telegraph invites letters on public issues with required signature, address, and phone number.
Bluefield Cub Scouts and parents learned about snakes with Roy Moose of the USDA Forest Service. He distinguished poisonous copperheads and timber rattlesnakes from nonpoisonous species, noting timber rattler as WV state reptile since 2008, while stressing that nonpoisonous snakes can bite if provoked.
Local notes by Wilson Butt discuss differentiating snakes and two types in West Virginia, a presidential debate verdict favoring Romney on coal comments boosting Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources, a state supreme court race edge for Robin Davis, and a 1942 congressional letter from John Kee urging support amid attacks, closing with weather and voting encouragement in Bluefield.
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