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June 2nd, 2011
Working on a deadline set by the previous administration, the Pocahontas Memorial Hospital board of directors made a decision to not throw good money after bad at Friday's special meeting.
June 2nd, 2011
If you want to know the history of a particular neighborhood, you should spend time with folks who "live' there.
In the case of Mountain View Cemetery, two of those folks would be Kenneth Faulknier and Frank Gravely.
May 26th, 2011
They fell, but o'er their glorious grave
Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save. ~Francis Marion Crawford
May 26th, 2011
Losses resulting from HMS' poor billing practices and problems with the hospital's HMS software program appear to be headed toward resolution. Those troubled areas received considerable attention at the Pocahontas Memorial Hospital Board of Directors meeting on Thursday.
May 14th, 2011
State Senator Clark Barnes was the top GOP vote getter in Pocahontas County, but came in a distant third statewide.
May 13th, 2011
Dotty Cloonan Newcomer, of Port Orange, Florida, and Lecther Simmons, of Clayton, North Carolina, crossed paths recently which led to a discussion of a common concern - the condition of the roads that wind through Mountain View Cemetery.
May 13th, 2011
It has been said that if you have a job you love, you will never work a day in your life.
That statement fits Willard Wilson, Jr. to a tee.
Junior and his wife, Vada, love their job and put in 10 - 12 hours a day, seven days a week to make sure that it is done right.
May 13th, 2011
It has been said that if you have a job you love, you will never work a day in your life.
That statement fits Willard Wilson, Jr. to a tee.
Junior and his wife, Vada, love their job and put in 10 - 12 hours a day, seven days a week to make sure that it is done right.
April 28th, 2011
The Word of the Week
Physiognomy - noun \?fi-z?-?�(g)-n?-m?\: The art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance or inner character or quality revealed outwardly. Merriam-Webster Online
April 28th, 2011
Students of Marlinton Elementary School were taught the joy of "double
dipping" last Wednesday, a practice that is not encouraged in table etiquitte.
April 21st, 2011
Serendipity -ﾠnoun - ﾠthe faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for or an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
First known use: 1754
April 14th, 2011
There was a celebration at Pocahontas Center last Wednesday afternoon and resident Annabelle McNeill coordinated "the whole shebang" by telephone and tell-a-friend from her bed there.
April 14th, 2011
Sesame Street's Kermit the Frog sings "It's not that easy being green," but it is easy to be a lighter shade of green.
Living in a rural area, we would certainly find it difficult to imagine how many plastic bags are used in the US.