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Telemedicine Exam Room at PMH Tim Walker AMR There is a brand-new medical service in Pocahontas County, which allows patients...

Tim Walker Allegheny Mountain Radio The discussion at the February 7 Pocahontas County Commission meeting centered around the commission’s proposed...

For the first time in nearly 40 years, a steam locomotive left Cass Scenic Railroad State Park February 1 and...

How do you make a 911 call in the National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ)?  For residents of Pocahontas County, one...

I’ve been working in a garden since I could walk: learning what was a weed to pull and what wasn’t, picking...

Sunflower Fabrics uprooted from Hillsboro and is now blooming in Marlinton, located in the State Farm Insurance building with an...

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer The Marlinton Town Council meeting Monday evening was short, yet productive, with council discussing issues that...

Lao Tai and Xiao Ming dine together for the first time since 1949. Lao Taitai’s brother is to her right and...

Warren “Tweard” Blackhurst doing one of his many jobs as the first commentator on the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park...

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer At the January 24 Pocahontas County Board of Education meeting, superintendent Terrence Beam spoke about the...

Melondy Phillips Staff Writer An average size family on the frontier consisted of seven to 10 children. Having children meant...

The author free-climbing the north side of the Great Wall of China. Finding Xiao Ming  Part Two “There are two...

Tim Walker AMR The apparently related issues of revising the way the county’s Hotel/Motel Tax revenue is distributed and the...

Marlinton Rotary Club member Tim McClung, center, receives a Paul Harris Fellow award at Monday evening’s Rotary meeting – presented...

The Snowshoe Hare – formerly the Why Not Shop – at Slaty Fork, is a cozy little gift shop and coffee...

Lao Taitai, Mother of Xiao Ming, left, with her long lost daughter. Note Xiao Ming’s smaller stature resulting from government-imposed...

Winters on the Colonial Frontier Winters long ago were not much different than winters today – but comforts of home...

Poultry farms across the country have been affected by avian influenza, although West Virginia has avoided the spread thus far....

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer Although there is a plethora of artificial Christmas trees on the market, there are still families...

Before the blight made the American chestnut functionally extinct, it dominated the forest of Appalachia, rising 100 feet in the...