Bluefield Jaycees Host Back to School Shopping Tour
Bluefield Jaycees and volunteers took 23 area junior high students on a Back to School Shopping Tour at Big Kmart. Funds expanded the event from 15 participants after sponsors donated 100 per extra student. The program, inspired by the annual Christmas tour, aims to ease peer pressure and start the school year positively.
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Bluefield Jaycees
Luefield
Bluefield Aycees
Jaycees
Steve Harry
Bluefield Big Kmart
Harry
The
Dwayne Nuckols
Samantha
Samantha Harry
Drug traffickers to miss harvest this year in three counties
Police, National Guard and troopers eradicated marijuana valued at about four million dollars in the southern region, with an additional million in Mercer County from a fugitive arrest. Authorities warned of possible booby traps but found none, instead uncovering large animal traps guarding 500 to 600 plants. Fire crews burned piles of plants across Raleigh and Fayette counties after aerial spotting and ground cooperation.
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National Guard
Mercer
Raleigh & Fayette Counties
Akers
Bluefield
Princeton
Welch
Raleigh
Whitesville
Scott VanMeter
Boon Docks
Oak Hill
B.L. Mankins
Richwood
Gauley Bridge
Summersville
Mankins
Army National Guard
Fayette County
Keystone Bank Collapse Shocks West Virginia Community
The Keystone failure spurred high profile FDIC action and public scrutiny. Documents buried on Burke Mountain intensified attention while ex-officials face trials and several civil suits murk the bank’s end. FDIC agents assisted depositors as McDowell County reels from job losses and business declines.
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FDIC
Burke Mountain
Keystone
United States
Harry J. Potter
David Barr
Freedom National Bank
Harlem
Jackie Robinson
Barr
Bank of New England
Freedom National
Rickie McCullough
Mercer County sees public input on school bond plan
Residents discuss CFP committee plans costly bond proposals for middle schools at Pike View area hearing. Enrollment drops prompt recommendation of sixth through eighth grade centers with funding possible via bonds. questions arise about auto con tinuation of consolidation and tax impacts.
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CFP
PikeView
Rick Ball
Akers
White
Pike View High School
Mercer County
Pike View
Jean Beasley
Athens
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Annette Z. Fox
Daily Telegraph
A-1
West Virginia
Northfork Middle School
Ronald Wyatt
Welch Office
Department of Employment Security
McDowell County
Wyatt
Terry L. Church
Michael H. Graham
Beasley
Li Emer Medical
Stafford Drive
Ryo
Family Eye & Health
Bhiperehae
Leonard
Marie Lowe, Sr
Rock
Carol Meadows
Tom
Cheryl Lowe
Patty
Terry Roberts
John
Lisa Lowe
North Carolina
Leonard Lowe, Jr
Matoaka
Mmer
Idecrare
Mariah Hydra
Paymenta
Voyager
Fish & Ski
Brick Street
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