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November 15th, 2012
Footage from the former county jail building made its way to Facebook during the election season, raising the concern—and hackles—of county commissioners at their regular meeting last Thursday.
November 15th, 2012
Community groups were awarded a total of $43,000 from the Pocahontas County Commission's discretionary funds on Thursday.
November 8th, 2012
A week after the remnants of Hurricane Sandy slammed the region, schools are back on a regular schedule, the phones work, the roads are clear and all but a handful of people in Pocahontas County have electricity once again.
November 1st, 2012
Hurricane Sandy left its destructive mark throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and right here in Pocahontas County Monday afternoon and into Tuesday.
November 1st, 2012
The staff at the The Pocahontas Times worked feverishly to produce this week's edition between two long power outages that affected Marlinton and much of Pocahontas County as the remnants of Hurricane Sandy battered the region.
October 30th, 2012
[Updated Wednesday, October 31, 10:00 a.m.]
Pocahontas County Emergency Management Director Shawn Dunbrack says MonPower officials indicate the Green Bank/Arbovale area should have power fully restored by 4:00 p.m. today.
September 20th, 2012
Will large scale commercial gas drilling come to the Monongahela National Forest as companies seek to cash in on the natural gas trapped in the Marcellus shale?
Forest Supervisor Clyde Thompson isn't betting on it.
September 13th, 2012
The Hammons family carried on ancient traditions of fiddling, banjo playing, ballad singing and story telling at their remote mountain home in Pocahontas County. Over the generations, their influence has had a pervasive and enduring effect on West Virginia’s regional mountain music.
September 13th, 2012
The stage of the Pocahontas County Opera House will be alive with music throughout the day during the 27th Annual Autumn Harvest Festival and West Virginia Roadkill Cook-off on Saturday, September 29.
September 13th, 2012
It has been about four years since the Pocahontas County Courthouse saw a flurry of activity as landmen sought to secure leases from local landowners to tap into the natural gas trapped in the Marcellus shale.
September 6th, 2012
Downtown Marlinton received a bright addition along its main thoroughfare last Thursday, with the installation of a barn quilt square on the Fourth Avenue Gallery.
August 30th, 2012
The sounds of rifles and artillery fire will fill the air the weekend of October 13 and 14 during Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park's biennial Civil War reenactment.
August 30th, 2012
The sounds of clinking chains, hoofbeats and the plow-blade slicing the earth greeted visitors to the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace, Sunday afternoon.
August 30th, 2012
Black Mountain Bluegrass Boys
September 1, 2012
$8
August 30th, 2012
Four-time Grammy Award winner David Holt and rising acoustic music star and Grammy nominee Josh Goforth join together to bring to life the joy and spirit of old time mountain music and stories at the Pocahontas County Opera House Saturday, September 8, at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $10.