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Hamlin PD: 1,008 traffic stops; State Police make 26 felony arrests in December

By SEÁN O’DONOGHUE
Managing Editor
HAMLIN - Hamlin Police Department had a busy 2011, according to data presented to the town council by the mayor in recent weeks.
The officers conducted over 1,000 traffic stops during the year. Meanwhile, the month of December brought over two dozen felony arrests on nine individuals by the West Virginia State Police.
Mayor Chris Wilkinson told the January 9, 2012 monthly meeting of Hamlin Town Council that the municipality’s police force had received 532 calls for service during 2011 from Lincoln County 911. The 12-month period saw 170 arrests made by the officers. There were 1,008 traffic stops, an average of 2.76 per day. The increased level of…
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Lincoln hunters take 1,789 deer

SOUTH CHARLESTON - Preliminary counts of game checking tags indicate West Virginia hunters harvested a total of 132,323 white-tailed deer during the recently completed bucks-only, antlerless, muzzleloader, archery and youth/Class Q deer seasons, according to Division of Natural Resources Director Frank Jezioro.
In Lincoln County, hunters took 1,051 bucks during gun season, 125 deer during antlerless season, 52 deer by muzzleloader, and 561 deer through archery.
This year’s total harvest was 24 percent above the 2010 deer harvest of 106,499. A total of 60,516 bucks, 38,381 antlerless season deer, 26,136 bow-killed deer and 7,290 muzzleloader season deer were taken during the 2011…
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Tomblin releaseseducation audits

CHARLESTON - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today announced the four regional and local school system audits conducted for the Education Efficiency Audit of West Virginia's Primary and Secondary Education System are now online.
Public Works LLC reviewed Taylor County Schools, Wyoming County Schools, Harrison County Schools and Regional Education Service Agency 7 (RESA) to identify inefficiencies and discover potential cost savings. Data from these audits support the state audit report released last week.
"Taylor, Harrison, and Wyoming school systems and RESA 7 were chosen because they give us an accurate depiction of our state's rural, suburban and urban learning environments. The findings are as…
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