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<p>Photo | Michael Browning</p><p>Nearly 400 people attended the Workforce WV Job Fair at the Chief Logan Convention Center in Chief Logan State Park on Tuesday. Employers set up at the job fair to give out applications, talk about their businesses and to intervier potential workers, while many people attended to look for jobs.</p>
Nearly 400 look for work at Logan job fair
CHIEF LOGAN STATE PARK — Nearly 400 people came looking for jobs Tuesday at a Workforce West Virginia job fair at the Chief Logan Convention Center. At 1 p.m., just three hours after the job fair had started, there had been at least 370 people come in looking for jobs, according to the list of names at the door. The job fair lasted until after 2 p.m. and many people were still coming through the doors near closing time. Jake Hunt, executi...
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Miners’ Memorial Garden at Scott High School
SUBMITTED ARTICLE Scott High senior, Sara Cook, standing in front of the Miners’ Memorial Garden planted by Mrs. Susan Jarrell’s English 10 classes. As a sophomore in Mrs. Jarrell’s class, Sara asked if the school should do something to honor the UBB mine disaster. At this suggestion, she and Mrs. Jarrell’s students decided to plant a flower garden to commemorate all coal miners. Sara took charge of the project, helping to raise enough mo...
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Madison Elementary students enjoy field trip
SUBMITTED ARTICLE Some Madison Elementary School students enjoyed themselves on their recent field trip, according to teachers. The students went to the Danville Volunteer Fire Department and the West Madison Park on Friday, April 20, 2012. The students watched a video about fire safety and the volunteer firefighters showed the students the equipment they wear on a daily basis to fight fires. The students got to observe the inside of a ...
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Boone man flees from police
A Boone County man fled from police after meth making materials were found inside his vehicle, according to West Virginia state troopers. James Linville, Jr., led police on a chase starting in South Madison and ending in Bibson on Sunday, May 6, 2012, police said. Linville jumped in a nearby creek to escape arrest. Inside Linville’s vehicle, troopers found meth making materials were discovered, according to State Police Sgt. A.S. Perdue. ...
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Crime Reports
Man killed in logging accident at Boone County coal mine
A man has been killed in a logging accident at a coal mine in Boone County. The accident was not mine related and happened at the Hobet Mine, according to emergency dispatchers. No other injur...
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UPDATE: Fatal shooting reported in Danville
A mother shoots her son three times in the chest and kills him
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Convicted drunken driver makes it to prison after ‘paperwork...
A Logan County man who caused injuries during a 2004 drunken driving incident finally made it to prison after walking free for nearly two years in what officials called a “paperwork snafu.” On Mar...
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Education
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Boone Career and Technical Center students of the third nine...
Boone Career & Technical School Director Jeff Nelson would like to announce and congratulate the current recipients of the Student of the Third Nine Weeks Award. Student of the Third Nine Weeks re...
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Madison Pre-K donates ‘Dollars for Dogs’
Students at the Madison Elmentary Pre-K center collected donations that they turned into food and materials for the Boone County Dog Pound. Mrs. Nelson’s preschool class presented County Commissio...
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School bus operators do more than drive
RAMAGE – Armed with gadgets, feathers and a wig, three Boone County Schools bus operators went to Ramage Grade School last week to do something more than just drop kids off or pick them up from sc...
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Boone County Reading Council needs your help
The Boone County Reading Council, who organizes and hosts “Take a Kid to Dinner”, needs YOUR help! A nonprofit organization that relies on donations, The Boone County Reading Council supports read...
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Agricultural
Business
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Judge Rowe speaks to Madison Rotary Club
Judge Jim Rowe, a Democratic candidate for the office of Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, stopped by the Madison Rotary Club on March 21, accompanied by Madison attorneys Cha...
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Alpha Natural Resources to permanently close Upper Big Branc...
Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. announced that it plans to permanently close the Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine near Whitesville. UBB was the scene of a mine explosion on April 5, 2010, in which 29 m...
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Smarr guest speaker at Madison Rotary Club
The Madison Rotary Club was pleased to welcome Conscio Smarr to a recent meeting. As guest speaker, he explained the reasons for developing a Comprehensive Plan for the City of Madison. Smarr, who...
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Alpha tops 2011 safety fine list, report says
By Ken Ward Jr. The Charleston Gazette Coal mines owned by Alpha Natural Resources were assessed more fines for federal mine safety and health violations last year than all other major publicl...
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Health
Boone Memorial Hospital to recognize ‘National Organ Donor A...
MADISON — More than 113,000 people across the country are awaiting an organ transplant, and at least eighteen will die without receiving one. The Center for Organ Recovery & Education (CORE), a fe...
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Pet of the Week
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ADOPT A PET
Please put ID tags on your dogs it could save a life
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ADOPT A PET
Please put ID tags on your dogs it could save a life
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ADOPT A PET
Please put ID tags on your dogs - it could save a life!
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ADOPT A PET
To view dogs and puppies up for adoption go to Robin Callahan Hager on Facebook. "JUST LOOKING FOR LOVE" — This small mix breed is a real sweetheart and needs someone to adopt and give lots of love...
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