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The Marlinton Municipal Auditorium has been established as a collection point for new and gently used items to be distributed...

Firefighters guarded the scene Sunday night. Breezy, dry conditions kept the ruins of the Old Bank Building smoldering through the...

The Bailek Nationwide Insurance Agency is back in business today, Monday, November 11. The office is now located in the...

The smoldering ruins of the Old Bank Building in Marlinton re-ignited Monday morning, helped by breezy, dry conditions. Marlinton VFD...

  Town of Marlinton water customers are under a boil water advisory until further notice. This is due to the...

Frank Gifford Contributing Writer If you are among the more than 40 million people who use Windows XP on your...

Pocahontas County Commission president David Fleming wasn’t present at the first commission meeting in November. As the commission meeting began...

Charles “Googie” Richardson at home at C.J. Richardson Hardware in Marlinton. Photo source: www.wvculture.org No matter where or when they served,...

According to Magistrate Court records, the following individual was either arrested or had activity in his case. Robert A. Wolf,...

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer At the LSIC/Faculty Senate board of education meeting at Marlinton Elementary School Monday night, principal Ron...

Sheriff David Jonese addressed members of the Pocahontas County Association of Retired School Employees at the organizations’ meeting October 30....

Senator Joe Manchin, on the TV screen, addressed questions asked by students in Sherman Taylor’s Civics class at Pocahontas County...

The interior of the salt cave at Salt Cave and Spa. More than six tons of special salt from the...

FEMA's floodplain map change in 2012 has baffled local residents by including properties that have never flooded and excluding properties...

  A "slinky-loop" of polyethylene pipe installed in a seven-foot deep trench at a Bartow home, part of a geothermal...

Negotiations are in progress with the heirs of the beloved late matriarch of Traveller's Repose, Jessie Beard Powell, to preserve...

According to Magistrate Court records, the following individuals were either arrested or had activity in their cases. Delton H. Lambert,...

Among the home improvement supplies offered at Deer Creek Supply on Cass Road, there is a new addition – a...

Although he is new to the county, Interim Superintendent of Schools Dr. Donald Bechtel is no stranger to the education...

A storm has been brewing for months and at the board of education meeting Monday night, it cracked wide open...