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Sharp’s Bridge on the Greenbrier River Trail. GRT Foundation photo Lucas Adcock Staff Writer The 78-mile railroad-turned-trail for hiking, biking and...

Inuit people respond differently from non-polar people in how they physiologically react to cold. Courtesy Bernd Hilderbrandt Pixabay Science in...

by Joe Miller 30 Minutes or Less (2011) is not a particularly good movie. The plot involves a couple of...

Dr. Leatha Williams Dear Community Members, School Staff and Families, As a child growing up in Neola, West Virginia, I...

When this photo was taken from the hill behind the Little General Store about noon on Friday, the Greenbrier River...

A cross section of an oak gall reveals the wasp larvae in the center of the sphere and filaments from...

The voter registration deadline for the 2026 Mid-Term Primary Election is April. 21. If you want to register for the...

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer When Policy 3112: Board-Staff Communications was placed on the Pocahontas County Board of Education meeting agenda...

by Joe Miller In 1989, Francis Fukuyama penned a book titled The End of History and the Last Man in...

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer Monday night’s meeting of the Marlinton Town Council got off to a rocky start when council...

by Joe Miller The ad sits squarely at the intersection of two nerdy things. The device is a wearable computer,...

Tim Walker AMR Reporter The Pocahontas County Commission tackled a very controversial subject at its January 6 meeting – distribution...

Avalanches kill more than 100 people each year. Photo courtesy of Jacky73490, Pixabay Avalanche airbags that inflate and keep victims...

Chocolate and coffee go together like peanut butter and jelly. It will be a poorer world without them. Photo courtesy...

The Pocahontas County Board of Education dedicated the new gym floor at Pocahontas County High School with a ribbon cutting...

Tim Walker AMR Reporter At the December 16 Pocahontas County Commission meeting, Ruthana Beezley, Amanda Smarr and Mike Holstine informed...

Tim Walker AMR Reporter The December 17 Special Meeting of the Pocahontas County Solid Waste Authority (SWA) began with a...

by Joe Miller “There’s another fellow,” muttered Scrooge; who overheard him: “my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a...

by Joe Miller I screened “A Few Good Men” in my philosophy classes at West Point every semester. You’re probably...

Tim Walker AMR Reporter Pocahontas County Solid Waste Authority (SWA) meet December 3 where SWA Chairman Dave Henderson announced that...