Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer As they entered the Pocahontas County High School gymnasium, in their maroon caps and gowns, the ...

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer More than $700,000 in awards and scholarships were presented to members of the Pocahontas County ...

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer For the past two decades, Bob Sheets – along with Drs. Stephen McBride and Kim Arbogast McBride ...

Karen O’Neil Track Coach The Pocahontas County High School track team had a great season this year. Sophomore Allyson Taylor ...

Female students, dressed in white, graduating from Eighth Grade at Green Bank Academy in Green Bank, W.Va. The nine young ...

Marian Ramona Tracy Bittle (August 9, 1928 – May 14, 2025) entered her remarkable life in the home of her maternal ...

Reverend Robert Carl Shields, 88, of Princeton, passed away Saturday, May 31, 2025, at his home with his family by his side.

Gary W. Cochran, 79, of Troutville, Virginia, passed away Friday, May 30, 2025. Gary died from living. He was a son of the ...

Ward C. Eister III, 62, passed away Monday, May 26, 2025, in Roseville, Minnesota. He was born in Ironton, Ohio, October 8, ...

RESIGNS Sheriff C. E. Matheny submitted his resignation to the County Court Tuesday. Clyde Cochran was appointed to fill his unexpired term, effective July 1. WEATHER May 1975 Minimum temperature: 29 ...

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer The shrill and insistent whistles of steam engines won’t be the only sounds echoing through the mountains for Cass Days this year. The Friends of Cass have started a new ...

The Danger of Euphuism “Can I tell you the meaning of euphuism,” asked an older man of the younger men on the staff. “It is the pleasant art of calling a bootblack a gentleman of polish, and it’s very ...