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As PMH Director of Nursing Kyna Moore puts it, in a community this size, if we lost one person to the flu, we would miss them. And if a flu pandemic does touch our community, it will take a community-wide effort to sustain ourselves. Kyna Moore talks about what the hospital and other community leaders are doing to get ready.

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State-wide elections will be held in June for the WV Silver-Haired Legislature. These 134 people – all age 60 or older – meet each fall at the State Capitol Building and go through the legislative process. Except instead of creating laws, they create suggestions.

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The owners of small service stations are caught between a rock and a hard place trying to deal with rising fuel costs, price wars, and the hidden costs of doing business.

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Every morning at 7 o’clock, Jason Bauserman goes outside to the check the weather. He calls in a report to the National Weather Service, and that’s one way they know what it’s really like today in Pocahontas County.

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The Highland Center’s Youth Employment Program is gearing up for another summer of helping young people explore their interests and potential. One alum says the big benefit is finding out what you don’t want to do.

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Bobbie and Jerry Ryder start their Thursday mornings by cooking for their friends and neighbors in the kitchen at St. John’s Episcopal Church.

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WV counties are cutting it close getting ready to go electronic on May 9th, thanks to software malfunctions and delays. Pocahontas County Clerk Sandra Friel ordered extra paper ballots, just in case. But it looks like the county might be voting on touch-screens after all.

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Last week, the Highland County Planning Commission found a proposed wind energy project is in accordance with the county’s comprehensive plan. In response, nine Highland County landowners have filed a lawsuit against the wind company and the county.

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Nicollette Maleckar has always loved to write, and she doesn’t like sad stories.

As one of the last children carried out of Nazi Germany before the Holocaust, Maleckar returned to Berlin years later to find sadness everywhere.

In her novel The Lilac Tree, she writes about that time. But the story is really a portrait of all the people she knew then.

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Pocahontas County’s Superintendent of Schools doesn’t want to lose the Safe and Secure Rural Schools program or the five-hundred thousand dollars it brought the school system last year. But he doesn’t think selling the National Forest to keep the program going is a good idea.

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