Bland County Festival of Leaves set for weekend events
Bland County hosts its annual Festival of Leaves at Bland courthouse lawn and county fairgrounds with food arts crafts and entertainment. The event runs 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sunday featuring music from local groups a hay ride a duck race a 4-H centennial and living history by the Sons of Confederacy. The festival also includes a flea market and child friendly activities with most events free aside from food drawings and duck races.
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Looney
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Wohlfahrt Haus Players
Jim Lloyd
Gospel Mountain Boys
Paul
Chad
Broady Bottom Boys
Farley Brothers
Lonesome Drive
Starz School of Dance
Sons of Confederacy
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Mark Blevins
Mblevins
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Pocahontas murder case awaits new trial date
ABINGDON Va The court has not yet set a date for a new trial in the federal capital murder case of a Mercer County man charged with the 1989 murders of three Pocahontas family members. Walter Lesight Pete Church 48 of Princeton was indicted in December 2000 for the April 16 1989 shotgun slayings of Robert Davis 32 his wife Una Mae Davis 32 and her son Robert Bobby Hopewell Jr 14. The federal jury could not reach a verdict Oct 4 and Judge James P Jones declared a mistrial and asked opposing counsel to schedule a new trial.
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Mercer County
Pocahontas
Walter Lesight
Pete” Church
Princeton
Robert Davis
Una Mae Davis
Robert
Bobby” Hopewell
West Virginia class to join Deep Ocean mission via ALVIN
Sandy River Middle School seventh graders will join Extreme 2002: Mission to the Abyss aboard the deep sea sub ALVIN for a 24 day Pacific Ocean exploration. The 60 students will receive live feed, streaming video, and one live question session with marine scientists from the University of Delaware, part of a global 500 class program.
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Pacific Ocean
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Sandy River
Sherry Wooldridge
SAMS
Wooldridge
Young Learning
University of Delaware
Mercer County sexual assault task force outlines work
Shirley Aycoth, clinical director of MCSATF, presented to the Bluefield Rotary about the program formed with Pam Hawkins Foundation and the Mercer County Domestic Violence Task Force. The eight SANEs cover Princeton Community Hospital and Bluefield Regional Medical Center, on call 24/7, and have examined thirty victims since February, with DNA evidence and expert testimony central to cases.
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Shirley Aycoth
Mercer County
Tion
Pam Hawkins
Aycoth
McSatf
Princeton
West Virginia
Princeton Community
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