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Details: December 05, 2013

Remember The Miners will hold its 3rd Annual Bob Huggins Fish Fry onJanuary 31st at Mylan Park in Morgantown, WV. The event will help support Remember The Miners Scholars Program and the Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Research Endowment Fund. You won't want to miss this signature event, with VIPs including Honorary Chairman Coach Bob Huggins and many more to be announced.

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Details: December 05, 2013

Lynn Smith, Secretary-Treasurer for the Kanawha Valley Mining Institute, as well as a Coal River Energy full-time employee, was awarded the honor of being inducted into the Kanawha Valley Mining Institute’s Hall of Fame (the first woman to be given this honor).

Details: December 05, 2013

CONSOL Energy Inc. has announced that it has closed on its previously announced agreement to sell its Consolidation Coal Company subsidiary, which includes all five of its longwall coal mines in West Virginia, to a subsidiary of Murray Energy Corp. for $3.5 billion.

Details: December 05, 2013

The West Virginia Business & Industry Council (BIC) will host lunches for the State Senate and the House of Delegates during the Legislature’s December Interim Committee meetings in Charleston. As we are long standing members of BIC and Chris is currently chairman of the organization, Association members are encouraged to attend and visit with our elected officials during these informal lunches. The House of Delegates will be hosted on Monday, December 9th and the State Senate on December 10th. Each lunch will be held in the rotunda hallway outside the respective chambers on the main floor of the Capitol. Please let Sandi know if you will be able to stop by either or both days.

Details: December 02, 2013

By TOM BONE Bluefield Daily Telegraph

GREEN VALLEY — Many coaches can attest to Tahj Sho-Johnson’s speed and talent on the football field. Many Princetonians can testify to his character. Many statistics could try to quantify his individual accomplishments as a Princeton Tiger.

But perhaps Rick Taylor summed up the 2013 Pocahontas Coal Association-Bluefield Daily Telegraph Football Player of the Year Tuesday night with his closing comment at the annual banquet.

“What a champ,” said Taylor, the coal association president and master of ceremonies.

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