Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer For six weeks during the summer, three classrooms at Marlinton Elementary School were transformed into playful landscapes – a campground, an ocean and a prehistoric land complete with volcano and dinosaurs – for the annual Energy Express program. Students in kindergarten through fifth grade attend the day...

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer When heavy rains washed out sections of roads and flooded parts of Pocahontas County a few weeks ago, several buildings at Pocahontas County High School were affected by the high water. At the July 6 Pocahontas County Board of Education meeting, superintendent Terrence Beam gave a...

Arla Ralston Contributing Writer The Pocahontas Opera House has cancelled the summer theater camp scheduled for August 2-7, 2021 at Stillwell Park. The camp was cancelled because too few students signed up to make offering the camp feasible. “We’re sorry to have to cancel this year’s camp,” Opera House Operations...