Posts by Heather Niday

Forest Service staff are continuing to assess damage to Forest roads, trails, and facilities from the June 30 flood in the Seneca Rocks area. At this time no Forest roads are closed due to the flood, although some roads may be washed out and have soft or missing shoulders.  Seneca Rocks Discovery Center will re-open…

A rollicking good time is promised as the Rustic Mechanicals open the 2019-20 Pocahontas Opera House season with Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”.  Jason Young tells us a little about the group. “The Rustic Mechanicals are the only touring Shakespeare troupe in the state of West Virginia,” said Young.  “And we started in the summer…

The 22nd annual Little Levels Heritage Fair is Friday June 28th through Sunday June 30th 2019.  The Fair is returning to the Town of Hillsboro this year in, around and behind Hillsboro Elementary school.  Little Levels Heritage Fair Board Member Jake Hyer has more. “After many Fairs at the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace just up…

Enjoy great food in a beautiful garden while supporting the arts and children’s programming at Trillium, in this edition of Allegheny Mountain Showcase.

Good friends, good grub and a preview of things to come – don’t miss this party!

Mike Holstine, Business Manager at the Green Bank Observatory is passionate about bringing better broadband access to all residents of Pocahontas County.  It’s a project he’s been working on since around 2013 when the GBO was host to a couple of statewide broadband summits. “And at that time we were getting promises about better broadband…

“In West Virginia I spent about 5 years visiting 80 and 90 year old fiddlers there and that was a very life changing experience,” said Erynn Marshall. “Melvin Wine, Lester McCumbers, Leland Hall and many others and I even worked on an organic farm in the Monongahela Forest for a little while in Tucker County,…

You never know what’s going to happen at a Bobby BlackHat Band performance! That’s the tag line and the motto of Bobby BlackHat Walters and his band when they bring their high energy blues to a concert venue.  You can find out for yourself Saturday May 11th at the Highland Center in Monterey. Bobby was…

There is a hidden gem in the City of Staunton, Virginia where young unbelievably talented musicians from around the world gather to learn and play great works of classical music. It’s the Heifetz International Music Institute, founded in 1996 by violinist Daniel Heifetz. Daniel is related to that other Heifetz, Jascha, one of the most…

Wonderfully gifted musicians from the Heifetz Institute in Staunton will bring spring to the Highland Center at the end of April.

Allegheny Mountain Radio Spring Fundraiser 2019 is April 14th – 20th and we have lots of great entertainment in store for your listening pleasure!