Greg Jordan

4 days ago | yahoo.com | Greg Jordan

princeton – Mobile home communities, also known as trailer parks, are facts of life around West Virginia and throughout the nation, but a report compiled by two nonprofit organizations with help from Mercer County residents argues that out-of-state owners are making these parks less than desirable places to live.

4 days ago | yahoo.com | Greg Jordan

princeton – Mercer County’s share of money from a court settlement against the company making the medication Lipitor is being used to help keep the county’s regional jail bill paid until its new budget is prepared. The daily cost of keeping an inmate in West Virginia’s regional jail system recently grew from $45.97 to $57.46, an increase of almost $12. To meet the extra cost, the Mercer County Commission met Thursday in special session to see how to pay the county’s April jail bill in full.

4 days ago | bdtonline.com | Greg Jordan

princeton – Mobile home communities, also known as trailer parks, are facts of life around West Virginia and throughout the nation, but a report compiled by two nonprofit organizations with help from Mercer County residents argues that out-of-state owners are making these parks less than desirable places to live.

4 days ago | bdtonline.com | Greg Jordan

princeton – Mercer County’s share of money from a court settlement against the company making the medication Lipitor is being used to help keep the county’s regional jail bill paid until its new budget is prepared. The daily cost of keeping an inmate in West Virginia’s regional jail system recently grew from $45.97 to $57.46, an increase of almost $12. To meet the extra cost, the Mercer County Commission met Thursday in special session to see how to pay the county’s April jail bill in full. kAmx?

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Greg Jordan

bluefield – Visiting academic departments, seeing robotic laboratories and even delivering a simulated baby gave high school students opportunities Thursday to see what an institution that’s close to home has to offer them. Bluefield State University started a new program that’s giving Mercer County’s high school students tours of its campus and its academic departments.