Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer It seems simple. West Virginia State law requires all county commissions to provide EMS service to their counties. Despite this law, Pocahontas County Commission only ...

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer As a teen growing up in Green Bank, Shari Vance decided she wanted to be a doctor. After ...

Miss Pocahontas 2025 and Miss Photogenic – Berkley Buzzard, right, daughter of Matt and Jennifer Buzzard, of Buckeye; and ...

CTE – students at Pocahontas County High School can join SkillsUSA and compete at the state and national levels in their ...

Portrait of the Rev. Harry Blackhurst Family seated in front of the Methodist parsonage at Arbovale, W.Va. in 1905. Rev.

Ona Carol Burgess, 86, of Marlinton, passed away at the Seasons Place in Lewisburg Thursday, June 5, 2025 Born August 22, ...

FIELD NOTES Smith Vaughan, of Caesar Mountain, brought in a water beetle, also known as the water tiger. It is found in our streams. It grows to a length of about four inches and is as fierce a food ...

Lillian M. Sweeney, 85, of Oil City, Pennsylvania, died Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at UPMC Hamot in Erie. Born February 8, 1940, in Marlinton, she was a daughter of the late Orrie and Ellen Burgess ...

DRIVER OF THE YEAR Burns Motor Freight, Inc., of Marlinton, continues to win honors as a West Virginia Motor Truck Association affiliate. The company, two years ago, won an overall fleet safety record ...

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer The Pocahontas County Board of Education received results from a stakeholder’s survey at is June 3 meeting, which showed what county residents think the schools need to ...

DUNMORE Fine weather. The hop, skip and jump Saturday in town was only tolerable. A little child, two months old, of Jacob Sheets’ died last week. Sandy Sutton died at Cheat Bridge Friday night on his ...

Ward C. Eister III, 62, passed away Monday, May 26, 2025, in Roseville, Minnesota. He was born in Ironton, Ohio, October 8, ...