Marlinton News

Brain Tankersly, sales manager with Mitchell Chevrolet, presents a check for $750 to Cara Rose, executive director of the Pocahontas County Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Morgantown's High Street Jazz Band will swing into Marlinton on May 23 for a pay-what-you-can concert at 7 p.m. as part of the group's educational tour throughout the state.

Marlinton's Fourth Avenue will be closed to traffic on Saturday, May 25, and open to creative exploration and good, old-fashioned fun as the Pocahontas County Artisan Co-op and the Calvin W. Price Enrichment Series host the first annual Appalachian Street Jubilee.

Marlinton Rotary Club officer Roger Trusler congratulates Jessica Lovelace, of Dunmore, for winning the 2013 Rotary Health Sciences Scholarship.

The 81st legislative session saw hundreds of bills introduced for the House of Delegates and Senate to consider making into law.

Folks in Elkins and the higher elevations of Randolph and Pocahontas counties had a surprise Monday, when snow flurries filled the sky.

The Pocahontas County Drama Workshop will present the comedy "The Pickers," a play by director Margaret Baker, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Pocahontas County Opera House in Marlinton.

Marlinton ... River's Edge ... 9.44 Acres Fronting the Greenbrier River. 2 Football Fields of River Frontage!!! Private yet close to town The choice is yours.

The meeting began with a teleconference call from commission president Dolan Irvine, who is recovering from an illness in Morgantown.

Two prominent members of Pocahontas County's artist community were recently selected as new members of Tamarack in Beckley.

"The Pickers," a comedy written and directed by Margaret Baker, will be presented at the Pocahontas County Opera House Friday and Saturday, May 17 and 18, and will feature two newcomers to the local theatre cast.

Thursday, May 9, 1963 From the desk of Mrs. Jane Price Sharp Good progress is being made on the building of the Burruss sawmill at Stillwell.

Craig Birchfield, 33, of Hillsboro, was arrested May 2 by Tpr. R.A. Waid on a charge of violation of a protective order.

Mountainview Cemetery manager Kenneth Faulknier told Marlinton Council Monday night that the cemetery roads are in desperate need of paving.

Thursday, May 8, 1913 Jack London's story "John Barleycorn" has ended in the Saturday Evening Post without the victim of old John Barleycorn getting on the water wagon.

Marlinton.......2 Bdrm 1 Bath Home in Town of Marlinton at end of Street just steps away from the Greenbrier River....Close to the trail for hiking ..biking...Horseback Riding.... The choice is yours.

Marlinton...Hamilton Hill.. .17 Acre Level Lot out of the Flood Plain located on Hamilton Hill above Marlinton Valley....Nice Neighborhood.. The choice is yours.

"In all likelihood, there is no prison like Mill Point in the whole world," best-selling novelist Howard Fast wrote in a letter pitching a prospective magazine piece to his agent, Paul Reynolds, sometime in the late 1950s.

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Fifty-Years-Ago Thursday, May 2, 1963 From the desk of Mrs. Jane Price Sharp Snow for the first day of May.