Mercer County Open House set with state officials guest
Mercer County Notebook reports an Open House for October 28 at the Southern Regional Juvenile Detention Center with Governor John D. Rockefeller IV and Welfare Commissioner Leon H. Ginsberg among honored guests. The 1 p.m. program at Shelter Road Green Valley includes a reception and facility tour.
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Southern Regional Juvenile Detention Center Advisory Board
West Virginia
Shelter Road
Green Valley
John D. Rockefeller IV
Leon H. Ginsberg
Mercer County Board and Community Meetings and Clinics
Concord Heritage Association meets at 7 15 tonight at Concord College Center. Mercer County Board of Education holds its regular meeting at 7 30 p m Thursday at the Central Office on Honaker Avenue Princeton with a special session at 6 30 p m on purchasing practices. Wade School PTA meets at 7 in the cafeteria discussing drug abuse program. McDowell County Health Office Wilcoe announces this week’s clinics Free dental care today by appointment ages 5 through 12. immunization Wednesday and Friday 8 a m to noon and influenza injections for all ages 8 a m to noon no appointment needed. Mercer County jurors report for October Term duties today in Princeton with petit jurors at 9 30 a m and grand jury at 10 a m Prosecuting Attorney Knight and staff will present evidence. Mercer County Commission begins October business session at 10 a m with two inducement resolutions for industrial and commercial bond issues for Princeton Industrial and Commercial Warehousing and for the Burton Lively partnership.
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Tony Whitlow
Bluefield Kiwanis Club
Princeton
Valley Women’s Club
Green Valley
Whitlow
Mercer County
Mercer County Chamber of Commerce
Jennifer Reeder
Bramwell Kiwanis Club
Maple Valley Home Demonstration Club
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
West Virginia
William Boyd Grove
Charleston
Glenwood Park
United Methodist Home, Inc
Mercer County Board of Education
Honaker Avenue
Wade Pta
Wade School Pta
McDowell County
Wilcoe
William O. Bivens Jr
David W. Knight
Mercer County Commission
Development Authority of
David Burton
Arnold D. Lively
Miners' Monument Fulfills Many Dreams in Frostburg Md
Frostburg honors coal miners with Spect VIII a 123 foot landscape sculpture commissioned by the Maryland State Art Council. Artist Andrew Leicester from Minneapolis created a multi room iron furnace coal tipple shaft monument dedicated amid dedication ceremonies last Friday. Local resident Tony Urbas who began underground work before mechanization recalls strikes and hunger and praises the miners’ courage while noting the industry has changed. The sculpture embodies infancy prime retirement and global mining with symbolic rooms and tracks from cradle to shaft.
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Frostburg
Tony Urbas
Maryland
Frostburg State College
Maryland State Art Council
Andrew Leicester
State General Assembly
Urbas
Leicester
Minneapolis
Minn
Allegany County
United Mine Workers
SCOREACE volunteers sought for Princeton project
SCOREACE is a SCORE sponsored program awaiting volunteers from many professions to provide free counseling to small businesses in Princeton and Mercer County. Elora McKenzie of the CEA Intern outlines that volunteers use their business experience in counseling roles with support from Concord College in Athens. For more information contact the CEA SBA development center at 384-9211.
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Princeton
Scoreace
Elora McKenzie
CEA
Mercer County
U.S. Small Business Administration
Center For Economic Action
Concord College
Athens
SCORE
ACE
CEA Sba Development Center
McDowell Board Denies Hiring and Promotion Charges
Clinton Henry a Switchback Elementary resource teacher accuses the McDowell County Board of Education of bypassing qualified applicants for administrative posts. He cites a letter from the state Human Rights Commission and says the board fails to advertise vacancies, prompting potential court action if the superintendent does not respond. Henry, with two master’s degrees and multiple certifications, plans to press his complaints at tonight’s board meeting.
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Elaine Thompson
Daily Telegraph
McDowell County Board of Education
State Human Rights Commission
HRC
Howard Kenny
John R. Drosick, Jr
Clinton Henry
Switchback Elementary
Henry
Wilcoe
Drosick
Superior
Coalwood Elementary
Roy Truby
Human Rights Commission
McDowell County
Goosens
Steam excursion tickets on Oct 30 to Jaeger
Tickets remain for a one day steam excursion October 30 sponsored by the Pocahontas Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. Price is 35 dollars, depart Bluefield old station at 9 am return by 5 pm. Engine 611 Powhatan Arrow will pull nine cars. new Billings history note included.
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Pocahontas
National Railway Historical Society
Fred Welcker
Bluefield
Steve Tibbs
Powhatan Arrow Fame
Birmingham
Jaeger
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Barbara Hawkins
Jack Nestor
Mercer County Farm Bureau
Nestor
Highway Department
Farm Bureau
County Commission
Torgrat
Moidd Baulg Ceegrasd Iit
Bulletin Board
Heritage
Concord Heritage Association
Concord College Center
Petit
Grand Jury
Petit Jury
Ninth Judicial Circuit
Commission
Mercer Mall
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Himalayas
McDowell
Robert I. Goosens
NRHS
Saeger
N&w
Iaeger
Billings
Mont
Northern Pacific Railroad
Frederic Billings
F.S.L.I.C
Mountain Savings and Loan
Virginia Ave
Verus
G.E. TV
Kammer
Ria Bluefield
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