Bluefield State College News

A lifelong resident of Bluefield who has done everything from serve his country during World War II to serving his community through local civic organizations was honored Thursday by the American Legion with the Distinguished Citizenship Award.

Mrs. Virginia Clark-Hebert, one of the area's most highly-respected educators who received her high school diploma from the city's segregated high school, graduated from a segregated college, taught in the high school she attended and later helped students make the transition into an integrated public school system, will be honored for a lifetime ...

The efforts of volunteers and city of Bluefield employees who are committed to making the community a cleaner and prettier place, was rewarded on Friday when the Make it Shine Program named Bluefield one of six communities statewide to be honored with a "West Virginia Make It Shine Clean Community Award." "This is so exciting," Angie Foley, ...

Bluefield State College in Mercer County has been without on-campus housing for decades.

Nearly 500 state employees used state vehicles to commute to and from work in 2008, but 90 of them failed to report the vehicle as a taxable benefit, a legislative audit released Wednesday shows.

Tazewell County School Board member David Woodard mentioned that the board is currently working on a proposal to replace the windows at the Abbs Valley school.

State Democrat party leaders were treated to a cookout by Gov. Joe Manchin, Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin, Senate Majority Leader H. Truman Chafin, and Democratic Party Chair Nick Casey last Tuesday at Chafin's home in Charleston.

For coal people, the second day of the 2009 Bluefield Coal Show was every bit as exciting as the first day, with lots of things to see and do and even a mid-afternoon visit by West Virginia Gov.

Mercer County Sheriff Don Meadows flipped the switch controlling the traffic signal at the intersection of U.S. Route 52 and Route 123 at 7:40 a.m., at the first sign of traffic backing up in the Falls Mills Road turning lane.

At 2 p.m., this afternoon, the Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce will officially switch its telephones from its office on Bland Street in Bluefield, and open up shop at the National Guard Armory/Civic Center in Brushfork.

The crowd of a few hundred people applauded in unison, after Col. William Aldridge asked the audience to consider the American citizens standing on the ledge of the upper stories of the World Trade Center towers - driven from their offices by the flames and smoke of a terrorist attack, "with no hope of getting out," he said.

The City of Bluefield and Bluefield State College are excited for their new tenants.

The Mercer County native - who uses a wheelchair - took his first college course at Bluefield State College in 1986.

New River Community and Technical College has moved its Mercer County campus headquarters to the Mercer County Technical Education Center in Princeton.

It's sad when a city must choose between history and dollars and cents. But the reality of our current economy - locally and nationally - is that, too often, it must.

A local hospital makes an investment in the future of healthcare. Monday, the Princeton Community Hospital Foundation awarded 6 scholarships to college students studying for careers in the healthcare field.

A local hospital makes an investment in the future of healthcare. Monday, the Princeton Community Hospital Foundation awarded 6 scholarships to college students studying for careers in the healthcare field.

Officers in McDowell and Tazewell counties are searching for a War resident who disappeared Monday after saying that he planned to visit Tazewell County.

Veterans often put their lives on hold while serving their country, and for many of them this means postponing their quest for higher education.

The Mine Safety Technology Consortium and several local and regional partner are set to present the 2009 Miners' Celebration Resource Fair at the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Center on July 24.