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3 days ago | 
bdtonline.com | Greg Jordan
bluefield — A special carnival for special people is on today’s agenda as warmer temperatures greet everybody coming to the Cole Chevy Mountain Festival in Bluefield. An event planned today at the festival on Stadium Drive in Bluefield is the Quiet Carnival from 2 to 4 p.m., said Jeff Disibbio, CEO and president of the Chamber of Commerce of the Two Virginias.
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3 days ago | 
bdtonline.com | Greg Jordan
princeton — In the past, farmers would get together and help a neighbor erect a new barn, but a new take on this tradition is scheduled to take place today when the community gets together for a “community shred.”The Mercer County Day Report Center’s attic is filled with old and outdated records and documents that can’t be thrown into the trash, so volunteers are getting together and shredding them.
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3 days ago | 
register-herald.com | Greg Jordan
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4 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Greg Jordan
MATAOAKA – After his excavator had a minor repair and some greasing up, Dan Wells with Empire Salvage started it up, raised its claw to the second-story rooftop and carefully probed the wall. Soon weathered bricks and rusty gutters were falling and dust was rising. The two-story Barger Street building in Matoaka was one of the larger structures in Mercer County's latest batch of demolitions.
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4 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Greg Jordan
bluefield – Two people died recently when the parked vehicle they were in was struck by a tractor-trailer traveling in the southbound lanes of Interstate 77, according to the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department. The crash occurred around 2:38 a.m. on May 31 in I-77’s southbound lanes near the 5-mile marker, according to Chief Deputy J.J. Ruble.
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4 days ago | 
register-herald.com | Greg Jordan
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4 days ago | 
bdtonline.com | Greg Jordan
bluefield – Two people died recently when the parked vehicle they were in was struck by a tractor-trailer traveling in the southbound lanes of Interstate 77, according to the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department. The crash occurred around 2:38 a.m. on May 31 in I-77’s southbound lanes near the 5-mile marker, according to Chief Deputy J.J. Ruble. kAm$6G6C2= 56AFE:6D C6DA@?565 2?5 FA@?
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4 days ago | 
bdtonline.com | Greg Jordan
MATAOAKA – After his excavator had a minor repair and some greasing up, Dan Wells with Empire Salvage started it up, raised its claw to the second-story rooftop and carefully probed the wall. Soon weathered bricks and rusty gutters were falling and dust was rising. kAm%96 EH@\DE@CJ q2C86C $EC66E 3F:=5:?8 :? |2E@2<2 H2D @?6 @7 E96 =2C86C DECF4EFC6D :?
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4 days ago | 
bdtonline.com | Greg Jordan
bluefield – K-9 Crook still has a lot of puppy energy and enthusiasm in him, but that’s helping launch his career as a bomb-sniffing and evidence-finding dog for the Bluefield Police Department. The department’s new recruit was circling his handler, Lt. Brian Copenhaver, when they arrived at the police station Monday. Crook, a Springer Spaniel, is about 2-years-old. kAm“(6 @C56C65 rC@@< 7C@> vF2C5:2? u2C>D :?
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Greg Jordan
princeton – An advocate who has worked for nearly 20 years helping Mercer County’s children and families deal with the tragedy of child abuse is now taking her talents and experience to the state level. Shiloh Woodard, who has been the executive director of Child Protect of Mercer County, Inc. for 19 years, has been hired as the new executive director of the West Virginia Child Advocacy Network, a nonprofit agency supporting the West Virginia Child Advocacy Centers.
