Jill MaluskyGBO Information Officer Budding scientists in Green Bank will embark on a new mission this week. Students in Julie Brown’s seventh grade class have planned extensively to launch a 12-foot diameter, high altitude helium balloon to conduct several scientific experiments.  Like a rocket ship, the balloon carries a “payload”...

Barry Steiner Ball graduated from The Citadel with a B.A. in Psychology and from Duke University with a Master of Divinity, and was ordained as a United Methodist Minister. Ball served three different charges on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in Talbot County. In 1998, he was offered a position with the...

Tim WalkerAMR Reporter At the May 12 Pocahontas County Broadband Council meeting, Mike Holstine suggested a number of talking points to use when communicating with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about Frontier’s pending RDOF bids to provide broadband to most of the populated areas in the county. Those talking points...

Jaynell GrahamEditor With 16 or 16 precincts reporting, the Pocahontas County Board of Education race was decided early Tuesday night. Becky Campbell, Central District candidate and former board member, was top vote getter with 793 votes, followed by Southern District candidate and former board member Joe Walker with 777 votes,...

Tim WalkerAMR Reporter At its May 3 meeting, the Pocahontas County Commission approved Region 4’s routine draw request #1 from the County Broadband Project. This led to a discussion about the efforts to bring high-speed broadband to the county. Commission President Walt Helmick said he doesn’t completely understand how those...

Suzanne StewartStaff Writer At the Pocahontas County Board of Education meeting May 3, Adventure Pocahontas Nature’s Mountain Classroom director Tracey Valach gave a report on the past year’s success and plans for expansion of the program to include all grade levels. In its first year of implementation Nature’s Mountain Classroom...

Mark your calendar for an old-fashioned High Tea as part of the Pocahontas County Bicentennial Celebration: Saturday, May 14, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Green Bank Library with Seneca Woodlands Women’s Club. Saturday, May 21, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Hillsboro Library, hosted by the Hillsboro Library Friends...

After a two-year hiatus, due to the pandemic, the Lake Buffalo Fishing Derby is back. This year’s derby will be held Saturday, May 14, at Buffalo Lake, located off of Rt. 28, north of Bartow. The event is sponsored by the U. S. Forest Service, Pocahontas County Parks and Recreation...