Bramwell News

James M. Jones, 80, of 203 Crabapple Lane, Bluefield, W.Va., passed away on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at a Bluefield hospital.

The State Historic Preservation office is offering a calendar celebrating residential architecture in West Virginia.

POCAHONTAS, Va. - Area residents are asking the Department of Natural Resources to investigate a grisly discovery between Pocahontas and Bramwell.

Caroline E. Lewis, 100, of P.O. Box 381 Bramwell, W.Va., passed away on Saturday, December 12, 2009 at her residence.

Residents living midway between Pocahontas and Bramwell are asking the Department of Natural Resources to investigate a grisly discovery.

Apparently someone did notice that the luminaires on the Easley Bridge and roadway between Bluefield State College and Highland Avenue were not working.

Annual Christmas celebrations kick off Monday in the Virginias when the Princeton Christmas Parade takes to the city streets, but more processions featuring bands, floats and a famous fellow in a red suit are soon to follow.

American Mountain Theater premieres its new Christmas Spectacular on Nov. 27, the first of 18 performances, including four Sunday matinees, scheduled through the weekend before Christmas.

Master Sgt. Hubert Buchanan carries a mattress at the Bishkek Center for Mental Health Oct.

The city of Bluefield will play host Saturday to a group of about 850 visitors who will be arriving in Nature's Air-Conditioned City on the Roanoke, Va., to Bluefield Amtrak excursion train.

Officials in the city of Bluefield learned Friday that Bluefield is one of six communities statewide to receive designation as a West Virginia Make it Shine Clean Community.

Mercer County residents celebrate a very special anniversary today. The small town of Cooper, just outside of Bramwell recognized the 125th anniversary of the first coal shipped out of the Pocahontas seam.

It was a dark and stormy night, but none of the guests seemed to care as the town of Bramwell joined forces with the Mercer County WE CAN program to host the second annual Ghost Walk of Historic Bramwell.

Hundreds of visitors came to Bramwell Saturday evening for the second annual "Ghost Walk" jointly sponsored by the Mercer County WE CAN program and the town of Bramwell.

A Mercer County town shares it's haunted heritage. Known for it's fair share of ghost stories and haunted happenings, Bramwell, will be hosting it's 2nd annual Ghost Walk of Historic Bramwell this weekend.

A fine mist of rain filled the brisk, overcast air in Bramwell Saturday afternoon, but nobody seemed to matter as hundreds of people flocked to the picturesque southern West Virginia town to enjoy good food, great music, and to taste the fruits of some of the best micro-breweries in the country at the 14th Annual OktoberFest.

When the mine operated by the Turkey Gap Coal & Coke Company was shut down in the mid-1980s, the tiny town of Dott, W.Va., like many mining communities during the end of the coal boom, all but died.

Tazewell County officials say connecting the county with an all-terrain vehicle trail system in southern West Virginia could be an economic plus for the region.

Today, eight years after that dark and horrific day, we once again pause to remember in prayer and silent observance the nearly 3,000 who died on Sept.

The region will once again pause today to remember the victims of 9-11. The innocent civilians in the World Trade Center.