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Panther Killed The Pocahontas Times April 15, 1976 If only Cal Price were alive, is what everyone has been saying...

In 1969, the State Fire Marshal condemned Marlinton Elementary School. The students were sent to Campbelltown School, the basement of...

TABLES WAITING FOR action in the old poolroom on Main Street in Marlinton. The “quiet” of this photo is in sharp contrast...

Sam Arbogast's grandfather and grandmother, Dennis and Elizabeth Simmons Dunn, in the boat they used to ferry residents to and...

A love story. A sports story. A tragedy.   Everyone has a story. Many pass from one generation to the...

The Pocahontas Times, January 9, 1890 Dick Knapp, very mysteriously disappeared from his home near Edray a few weeks ago,...

Caroline Peters Contributing Writer Opioid abuse has proven to be a problem for the state of West Virginia, leading many...

Reprinted from January 21, 1965 edition of The Pocahontas Times Water witching has bobbed up in conversations several times the...

Gibbs Kinderman Traveling Rt. 219 Country general stores were the center of community life a hundred years ago along what...

The Green Bank High School Class of 1964 held its 50th reunion at the Arbovale Community Center Saturday, October 4....

Marlinton High School Class of 1954 pictured l to r: Front row, Freda Underwood Thompson, Shirley Kelly Smith, Nancy Ward...

Pocahontas Sheriff and Deputy Take Them July 1914 In June 1913, Theodore Hoke, aged fifty years, and Jesse Hoke, his...

The January 4, 1964 edition of The Pocahontas Times contained the following bit of news: On TV “Charles Lovelace, Jr.,...

The Little Levels Heritage Fair draws to a close each year with a Vespers Service on Sunday evening at the...

  OREANA “RENE” WHITE, wearing a 4-H T-shirt and standing on the steps of the Pocahontas County Opera House. The...

  Scott Hayes is content on his parcel of the world on Back Mountain Road, just above Durbin. He lived...

“The two best times to fish is when it’s rainin’ and when it ain’t.” ~ Patrick F. McManus The fairly steady...

  A slender figure dressed in black moves silently across the dark Opera House stage, pausing occasionally to perform a...

  Main Street Marlinton in 1982 was a hub of activity. Not an empty storefront could be found at that...

At right, Louise Brown Butcher poses with a motorcar in the town of Spruce in 1945. At left, Butcher, today,...