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What looks like an ice cold glass of lemonade is actually a concoction made with the red fruit clusters of...

Amanita muscaria. Photo courtesy of Harald Mateen, Pixabay Ken Springer Watoga Park Foundation What do Vikings, fairies, reindeer and the...

Borage has been cultivated in Britain and Europe since it was brought there in the Middle Ages, and it began...

APRONS CAN BE functional, fancy or just plain fun. Not only do they protect your clothes, the pockets come in...

Tracy Walker, a talented Hillsboro potter, fashioned unique pie plates for Little Levels Heritage Festival pie contest winners. Here, Ruth...

Bill Lindsey was the 28-year-old YCC leader responsible for the crew that built Jesse’s Cove Trail in 1980. Barbara McNeel...

Martin always wanted to own a dinosaur egg. Here he is, holding a dinosaur egg and standing in front of...

Photo courtesy of Tiffany BeachyOrnithologist Tiffany Beachy charms a Louisiana Waterthrush during one of her many forays into the wild...

The Milky Way, visible at the Green Bank Observatory, with the Tatel Telescope in the foreground. Photo courtesy of Green...

Jacob Kinnison Pocahontas County High School rising senior Jacob Kinnison has qualified for the West Virginia State FFA Degree. To...

Former Watoga State Park Superintendent Craig Ackerman came up with the idea to design a trail along Rock Run, which...

Seventh Annual “Fish Bowl” Grant Program winner Kim Clifton, center, owner of Stone House Salt Rising, LLC, is flanked by Pocahontas...

Ken Springer Watoga Park Foundation The news from Watoga State Park and beyond By the time you read this dispatch,...

Pocahontas County High School seniors Dakin Rexrode, left, and Charity Warder were the recipients of the Arch Wooddell Sportsmanship Award...

Grow Appalachia site coordinator Steve White, right, and West Virginia Food and Farm Coalition Foodshed coordinator Eryn Neyer stand at...

Pan-fried cicadas taste like popcorn shrimp. Ken Springer Watoga Park Foundation MAGICICADA The Conclusion In last week’s edition of the...

Cass Scenic Railroad State Park Join the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad and Cass Scenic Railroad in Cass at 9:30...

Jenna Bryant Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer When Jenna Bryant was a student at Green Bank Elementary-Middle School, she honed her...

West Virginia University biologists, Lincoln Oliver and Joe Girgente were doing field work in Pocahontas County last week. Girgente, with...

The incomparable dog named Bongo. K. Springer photo Ken Springer Watoga Park Foundation The improbable story about a dog named...