A ‘Big Bang’ of a beginning but, as yet, no end to the story
NRAO Business Manager Mike Holstine walks across the dish of the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope. This hike is only...
Winter Storm Jonas hits town today
Pocahontas could receive 18” – 30” depending on location. Homeland Security and Emergency Management liaison Shawn Dunbrack provided the following...
Respect returned
"They deserve to be remembered,"caretaker Frank Gravely often said of veterans interred at Mountain View Cemetery. Gravely put flags on...
IRS scams target taxpayers and tax preparers
Two county residents called The Pocahontas Times office Tuesday morning to report they had received scam calls from individuals claiming...
MTC responds to change
Marlinton Town Council and Pocahontas County Senior Citizens, Inc., formally entered into a 30-day trial transportation program Monday night at...
Adding a layer of color
THE UNSEASONABLY MILD weather has been an advantage, but not a necessity, for Dennis Eisenacher, of Slaty Fork. Eisenacher, owner of...
Play Ball
FOUR AUTOGRAPHED BASEBALLS from Little League games, played in the early 1960s, have come home. Rev. George McCune, a volunteer umpire...
National Alliance chairman arrested at Mill Point
William White Williams, II, 68, of Mountain City, Tennessee, was arrested December 16 at National Alliance headquarters in Mill...
Minnehaha – the hospitality place
Pocahontas County has always had the distinction of being a place of hospitality, and that distinction may have found its...
Community rocked by senseless crime
Tragedy and sadness struck in more ways than one Friday when a state trooper and two county sheriff’s deputies responded...
Former assistant prosecutor’s law license annulled
A November 18 decision by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has annulled the law license of Jarrell L....
Project update
THINGS CONTINUE TO move up on the corner of Main Street and Third Avenue,...
Whistles, celebrations and compliance on TOM agenda
Marlinton Town Council recognized the dedication and contributions of the Pocahontas County Scottish Rite Club at its meeting Monday night....
Money is tight, but senior centers aren’t closing
Pocahontas County Senior Center director John Simmons wants to make elected officials aware that senior programs are struggling, but he...
Judge orders dismissal in ‘Green Box’ case
Judge Robert E. Richardson issued an order October 2 dismissing action against all but three defendants in what is commonly...
Boso talks issues and tours county
NRAO Business Manager Mike Holstine and Senator Greg Boso braved the wind Wednesday for a brief tour of the Green...
ACP, LLC seeks FERC’s permission to build pipeline
Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC said it considered more than 3,000 miles of potential routes and made hundreds of route adjustments...
A quiet and busy lifestyle
Passing through Hillsboro in the early morning, one gets the impression that it is a sleepy little town – a...
Bridge to the future
With the recent completion of a new bridge across the Greenbrier River and the installation of a boat ramp,...
Forward, positive momentum on display at MTC meeting
Marlinton Mayor Sam Felton apologized to the Town Council at Monday night’s meeting, saying it was hard to give his...