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  Emergency medical services dominated the Highland County Board of Supervisors work session Wednesday night.  Board Chairman David Blanchard announced that in the ongoing effort to help provide emergency medical services to Highland residents, the county had purchased at auction the old car wash on Main Street to provide space…

The Highland County Economic Development Authority met October 19th and set the timeline for the 2021 Incentive Grant Program.   Applications will be available November 1, will be due by January 31, 2021 and decisions on grant awards will be made at the EDA’s April 2021 meeting.   Bryan Obaugh said there…

This week we will be airing statements from the candidates running for Pocahontas County Commission and for Prosecuting Attorney in the November 3rd general election.  Today we’ll hear from David McLaughlin, the Democratic Candidate for the northern district County Commissioner seat.

The Pocahontas County Board of Education will hold its next regular meeting on Tuesday, October 27th starting at 3:00 p.m. at the Marlinton Elementary School. This meeting will be open for public attendance or via Zoom Meeting.
Directions to sign into this Zoom Meeting can be found at the end of this story.

The Meals on Wheels program that serves Highland and Bath needs volunteers. Harmony Leonard works in Highland County as the Senior Services Coordinator for Valley Program for Aging Services. “Volunteers make the program work,” says Leonard.  “Especially in our community, I think that it’s reaching out and seeing people that…

The Highland Center in Monterey has a new Program Coordinator.  Lois Terry-Warner started work September 21. “I was born and raised here in Highland County and most of my immediate family is still in the area,” says Terry-Warner.  “Most recently I was a medical biller/encoder for a company and was…

At 4:00 p.m. there will be a special meeting to publicly test the electronic voting equipment that will be used during the November 3rd general election.The regular commission meeting will then start at 5:30 p.m. with the following agenda.

At their October 13th meeting, the Pocahontas County Board of Education passed a motion to re-open all county schools to in-person instruction starting on Monday, October 26th

  The Highland Youth Employment Program is back in business.  It’s gearing up to get students back to work.  Lois Terry-Warner is the Program Coordinator at the Highland Center. “Since COVID, we weren’t able to do it in the summer months like we normally would,” says Terry-Warner.  “So at this…