Pocahontas County News

Officers of the Pocahontas County Sheriff's Department arrested three individuals on drug charges Saturday morning and the Sheriff expected more arrests later today.

Pocahontas County Commissioners Martin Saffer and David fleming met briefly Saturday morning with West Virginia boundary commission members Charles Sypolt and Curt Keplinger and Highland New Wind Development partners Henry "Mac" McBride and Tal McBride.

Imagine coming home from a holiday visit to find your door kicked in and all your beautifully wrapped Christmas presents - gone from underneath the tree.

Ever heard of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum? No, it is not a hard rocking Christmas music band .

A Massachusetts fugitive wanted for violation of parole stemming from an Oct. 25 armed robbery charge, was arrested in Greenbrier County Thursday evening after he and his girlfriend led police on a 3-mile chase and attempted to flee the scene on foot.

It's going to be another long, cold winter for the dogs at the county animal shelter in Durbin.

Hillsboro Elementary School third grade teacher Pam McCurdy waits at the front of her classroom to greet students as they rush to their desks to begin the day.

Recently released unemployment figures provide just a bit of good news for West Virginia showing a drop by four-tenths of a percentage for September.

The following accident reports were filed in the Pocahontas County Sheriff's Office during the period September 8 to October 20: September 13: Christopher M. Dell, of Alexandria, Virginia was traveling east on Route 66 in a 2004 Dodge SRT and failed to stop at the stop sign at the intersection with Route 92.

Lucas Bolyard is one of five students at South Harrison High School searching hundreds of hours of data collected from the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in Pocahontas County.

There are three things that bind Jane Price Sharp to this community - her family, her church and The Pocahontas Times.

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Millions of people around the world, especially the Far East, believe in the health benefits of the ginseng root.

About 15 years ago - long before he threw his hat into the political ring - Mercer County Commissioner Jay Mills lamented the fact that his uncle had to hang up his fly rod when he got too old to make it to his favorite trout stream.

An endless stream of ravaged television sets, outdated computers, old cell phones and other electronic devices is raising a fresh environmental concern over the matter of disposal.

County commissioners approved eight properties, mostly in southern Pocahontas County, for farmland protection easements Tuesday.

Faced with dwindling revenue, the Boy Scouts of America's Buckskin Council is considering its options for three properties in West Virginia and Virginia.

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank donated $8,000 to Green Bank Elementary-Middle School for use in upgrading the technological system of the school.

More people are traveling in West Virginia, and the destination for many of them is the state's gaming facilities.

With the arrival of October, West Virginia's fall foliage season moves into prime time, sending thousands of leaf-peepers down country roads across the state in search of the perfect autumnal scene.