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The Pocahontas County Broadband Council officially announced last Wednesday that a $4 million project has broken ground to bring broadband...

The Pocahontas County Honor Corps hosted its annual Veterans Day dinner last Tuesday at the Pocahontas County Opera House. Seated,...

Jane Goodall with infant chimp. Courtesy of Hugo van Lawick BBC Madagascar Red-Ruffed Lemur. Courtesy of Dr. Mike Jarosick Science...

Dr. Assaf Glazer traveled from Israel to visit the Pocahontas County Diabetes Support Group and discuss its recently completed cookbook...

by Joe Miller Last week, my alma mater celebrated its 250th birthday. Hampden-Sydney College, located in Southside Virginia, was the...

In October, SHARC – Snowshoe Highland Area Recreation Collaborative – hosted search and rescue training at the Green Bank Observatory. Members of...

The recently constructed bridge on the Allegheny Trail near the Beaver Creek Campground was built by volunteers with the West...

by Joe Miller Last week, my son Matt asked me to review his writing sample. The paper is part of...

At the Pocahontas County Chamber of Commerce Fish Bowl grant program event, Cedarleaf Farm and Flowers, LLC, was awarded the...

by Ken Springer Science in Small Bites Author’s Note: For tens of thousands of years, humans have adapted to dramatic changes...

After cutting the first slice of birthday cake with a sword, retired Marine Duke Fry, left, watches as the oldest...

George Snyder’s vibrant and mesmerizing paintings and sculptures populate his house, backyard and studio, shown above, in Pocahontas County. Snyder,...

Tim Walker AMR Reporter At its November 4 meeting, the Pocahontas County Commission discussed the future of solid waste collection...

Decomposition can be beautiful. Fungi, moss, insects and other decomposers have covered this downed oak tree. Their collective work will...

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer High schools serve a lot of purposes. Obviously, their main purpose is to educate teens, but...

by Joe Miller Around one in every five residents of Pocahontas County relies on SNAP – the Supple- mental Nutrition...

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer Monday night’s Marlinton Town Council meeting began with a discussion about the first check received from...

The NSF Green Bank Telescope, photo credit NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/J.Hellerman. greenbankobservatory.org A groundbreaking new dataset from the U.S. National Science Foundation...

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer As one of the 12 Mon Forest Towns in the Monongahela National Forest, the town of...

by Joe Miller I have a confession. I dislike podcasts. I’m a little hesitant to admit that because (a) I...