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  The Highland County Humane Society has a foster program called Senior Pets for Seniors.   It started a few years ago as a way to place senior cats and dogs in homes that are best suited for them. Corena Huffman is the Director and President of the Highland County Humane Society. “It’s important to have…

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  The Bolar Volunteer Fire Department holds a fundraiser most every month to help out with needs at the department.  They hold a turkey shoot. Chris Moore is the Assistant Chief of the Bolar Volunteer Fire Department. “Everybody brings a shotgun, a 12 gauge shotgun, and we have targets out at thirty yards and you…

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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 for paid staff and two…

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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 is interest in the Incentive…

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This past spring more than 124,000 schools closed due to the Coronavirus. Those closings affected 55 million students. Today Coronavirus continues to impact public schooling. Many families have chosen full-time online learning. This decision is presented. Rural communities like the Allegheny Mountain radio listening area with a set of problems suburban and metropolitan families don’t…

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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 we wouldn’t normally see.  It…

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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 able to work remotely.   But…

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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

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  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 time we are working closely…

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At the recent Bath County Board of Supervisors meeting, the board reinstated a Tourism Director position for the county. The vote to reinstate this position in the county was unanimous at 5-0.

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