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The Pocahontas County Board of Education will meet at their Office Conference Room in Buckeye on Tuesday, July 9th. This meeting will start at 5:00 p.m. with a work session, followed immediately by the regular meeting.

The state of Virginia estimates that 600,000 people don’t have high speed broadband. Recently, there has been some progress in making high speed internet more available to Virginians.

We talked with Pocahontas County Extension Agent Greg Hamons about these tiny bad guys that are attacking our plants and trees.

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…

Once again at this “emergency meeting” they decided to take no action on authorizing PMH to make this loan application.

Betty Mitchell, Director of the Blue Grass Resource Center, shares knowledge on the origins of the parade and lawn party that has celebrated Independence Day in Blue Grass since 1998.

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…

With the end of the month approaching, I wanted to talk about a few exciting events happening soon at the end of this month and next month in Bath County. 

The Pocahontas County Commission will hold its regular meeting on Tuesday, July 2nd, starting at 8:30 a.m. at the Commission Office in the Courthouse in Marlinton.

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…