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Chargers Competition Cheer Hosts Its First Invitational By Danny Cardwell · Allegheny Mountain Radio Most competition cheer teams carry 20 or 30 athletes. Bath County High School carries eight. There are no alternates. This season the Chargers have been to four competitions and come home with three trophies: two first-place finishes and a third. This…

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Since the WV Department of Education requires that a “reasonable” fee in line with what other school systems set must be charged, after looking at other schools’ charges, the members voted to set fees of $100.00 for home schoolers to participate in football; $50.00 to participate in any other sport, and $10.00 to participate in academic fairs and contests.

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A number of concerned county residents did not like Sim’s recommendations to have JacMal Industries build a transfer station at the landfill site. Even when it became apparent that would not continue to be their plan, many of those residents were angered by Sims’ active involvement at meetings.

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How Hard Could It Be? Preservation Bath, Allegheny Mountain Radio, and Forty-Five Years on the Air By Danny Cardwell · Allegheny Mountain Radio It rained most of Sunday, a cold, steady October rain. Later that afternoon someone would point out that it was the same kind of weather that started all of this. None of…

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Sunday Drive headlines the 2026 Gospel Jubilee “They called me Smiley when I was a kid.” Jeff Treece has been the one breaking the ice in a room for about as long as he’s been in one. On Saturday, October 17, he’ll bring that — and his family — to the Bath County High School…

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A Geographer, a Bass, and the Country the Music Came From “For me, it was just a fantastic opportunity to start both researching the kind of life that I had lived, and also look at it from kind of a removed perspective.” Stewart Scales is talking about teaching the geography of Appalachia at Virginia Tech….

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  A Night with the Ghosts of Warm Springs: Preservation Bath Launches Its First Ghost Walk By Danny Cardwell · Allegheny Mountain Radio On the Saturday before Halloween, the historic village of Warm Springs is going to feel a little different. Preservation Bath is launching its first-ever Ghosts of the Warm Springs Ghost Walk on…

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Nick Mullins: As temperatures drop and the Allegheny Highlands become decorated in their fall splendor, visitors from far and wide venture to Highland County. Many folks throughout the community have busied themselves in preparation for the Hands and Harvest Festival held each year to celebrate the changing of the season, including many of the staff,…

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Nick Mullins: Over the last 45 years, the the Highland County Historical Society has worked diligently to preserve the history of Highland County and its many small communities. Based in McDowell, the society operates two museums, the Mansion House located along Mansion House Road, and the Charles Pinckney Jones Museum located in downtown Monterey. Throughout…

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McCoy was advised that people should not be in the building as it is unsafe for their health. McCoy said he was coming to the commission now on an emergency basis to find a place to move his people, offices, evidence and equipment to as immediately as possible.

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