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Many recreation sites and the boat launches on Lake Moomaw are open year round.

In this second part, Dr. McNeel starts with what came next here, then she describes some of the other exhibits in the museum and the stories they tell about our county’s history.

Classes open Monday September 20th with mask wearing mandate in place.

In this first part of a multi-part story about the Pocahontas County Historical Society’s Museum in Marlinton, the Society’s Secretary, Dr. Denise McNeel talks about the founding of the museum then she describes, fittingly since Pocahontas County is celebrating the bicentennial of its founding, some of the artifacts in the…

The Board received information on the creation of a social media policy for county employees and heard a presentation on the transportation section of the Comprehensive Plan.

A word of caution – this story talks about suicide.

The performance is part of the Highland County Arts Council’s Second Saturday at Seven Concert Series.

The 2020 U.S. Census count shows that Pocahontas County’s population has dropped to seven thousand, eight-hundred and sixty-nine (7,869) people, which is a drop of eight-hundred and fifty (850) people from the last census which was conducted in 2010.

For the next three years, astronomers from the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) will have increased access and new technologies to use on the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in their breakthrough scientific studies of gravitational waves. This new technology and additional observation time is…

The Pocahontas County Commission will meet in regular session at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 7th at the Commission’s office in the Courthouse in Marlinton, with the following agenda.