Kroger union and company clash over health benefits in West Virginia
Striking Kroger workers in West Virginia press to secure better health care benefits as UFCW Local 400 President Jim Lowthers criticizes corporate greed. Kroger counters that workers are well paid and health costs rise nationwide, while offering a 36 percent boost in health care funding over four years. The action involves about 3,300 employees.
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Charleston
Kroger
West Virginia
UFCW
Jim Lowthers
Archie Fralin
Fralin
Bluewell parents sample school lunches at event
About 100 Bluewell Elementary parents joined the Wild About School Lunch event to eat with their children. Attendees praised the meals of chicken fingers, green beans, rice, salad, cookies, yogurt, and apples, comparing the experience to nicer dining and stressing nutrition and family time.
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Bluefield
Karen Bailey
Bailey
Bluewell Elementary
Chris
Ryan’s
Julie Steineke
Karen Morris
Dara
Donna Pauley
Allison
Misty Webb
Taylor
Tim Umberger
Adam Lambert
Lisa May
Mercer County seeks missing man Dennis Hudgins
Mercer authorities are on the lookout for Dennis David Hudgins 32 of Lashmeet last seen early Sunday Oct 5 in Ghent Raleigh County heading toward Mercer County. He drove a black 1988 or 1989 Cavalier with silver trim. 5 8, about 190 pounds, brown hair, blue jeans gray T shirt and white tennis shoes. Tips to Sgt A D Beasley 425-2274 or 425-8911 or to Tammie Toler at ttoler bottonline com.
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Princeton
Mercer County
Dennis David Hudgins
Lashmeet
Ghent
Raleigh County
A.D. Beasley
Beasley
Hudgins
Tammie Toler
Bottonline
Local firm contracted to clean up McDowell diesel spill
McDowell County emergency services director JIMMY JOEL GIANATO said a Marshall Miller & Associates crew worked Tuesday morning to clean a spill of about 5,000 gallons of diesel after a tractor-trailer overturned into Elkhorn Creek. Bluestone Industries owned the tanker and contracted the cleanup. no fish kills or wildlife endangerment were reported and no impact to county water supplies occurred.
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McDowell
Keystone
Elkhorn Creek
Jimmy Joel Gianato
McDowell County
Marshall Miller & Associates
Gianato
Bluestone Industries
City board approves signs ordinance and honors local officials
The Bluefield city board gave first reading to an on site signs ordinance and heard a proclamation designating October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Mayor Perkinson signed Municipal Government Week and a memory proclamation for Raymond Sarver. The board re appointed Clarence Mitchell to the Bluefield Housing Authority and set a hearing to close an alley on Princeton Avenue. Pension funds for police and fire were approved with state draw downs totaling 376,111. Trick or treat will be allowed October 30.
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Jay Barringer
John Feuchtenberger
Moore
Charlene Meade
Pam Hawkins Foundation
R.E
Bob” Perkinson Jr
and Moore
Raymond “Corky
Sarver
Corky
Perkinson
Clarence Mitchell
Bluefield Housing Authority Commission
Art Riley
Bluefield
Princeton Avenue
Hasan Baig
Police and Fire Department
Baig
Fire Department
Montcalm Area Gospel Benefit Singing Friday Night
A gospel benefit concert will be held Friday at 7 p.m. at the Montcalm Fire Department. Performers include The Mullins Victor Phillips Mary Phillips Steve Kosiner Darrell Agee Brian Wilcox and Shirley Moody.
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Montcalm
Montcalm Area
the Mullins
Victor and
Mary Phillips
Steve Kosiner
Darrell Agee
Brian
Bloodmobile slated for Tazewell venue this Thursday
The American Red Cross Bloodmobile will stop at the Tazewell Moose Lodge from noon to 6 p.m. Thursday, inviting eligible donors to give blood in support of local medical needs.
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Tazewell
North Tazewell
American Red Cross Bloodmobile
Tazewell Moose Lodge
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Kroger Union
Dennis Yena
Dyena
Bluewell
Jody Neal
Eric DiNovo
Stephanie Perkins
Union Street
Mercer
By Jody Neal
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bill Archer
Barcher
Bottonline.com
Gospel Sing
Wilcox and
Shirley Moody
Pharmacy International
Europe
Israel
Arrowhead Drive
Carson City
Bestbuyrx.com
Mercer Mall
Hotmail
Sunburstbeauty.com
Bluefield Internal Medicine
College Avenue
Quasir Raza, MD
Internal Medicine and Psychiatry
The
American Board of Internal Medicine
Kimberly Matzel
PAC
Virginia
Fancy Gap Hwy
Cana, VA
VISA
Mastercard
Oras
Pasc Ae Ue
State Farm Bank
Mark Wood
Stafford Drive
State Parm
FDIC
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