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Property Tax Amendment, routine business on commission agenda
Before getting to the agenda at the August 16 Pocahontas County Commission meeting, the commission heard from Crystal Bond, who lives on Brush Country Road. Bond reinforced earlier complaints made to the commission about a neighbor setting off loud, earth-shacking explosions. She said she and her husband are Federal employees working remotely from their home, and these explosions have shaken her house, rattled and even knocked over their government-owned computer equipment, but when they call 911, no one responds or does anything about these explosions.
PCHS golf team hits the links
The month of August has been busy for the Pocahontas County High School Golf Team. The team traveled to the Lewisburg Elks Club August 16 and placed second overall in a match with Greenbrier East High School and Greenbrier West High School. The team’s final score was 136. Individual scores...
Joe Greenlee
Joe Wilkes Greenlee, age 97, of Charleston, went home to be with his Lord and Savior Thursday, August 18, 2022. Growing up he had a paper route that covered most of the east end. He loved to tell the stories of delivering papers to the folks on Kanawha Boulevard. Joe...
Evelyn Greenlee
Evelyn Margaret “Peg” Greenlee, 95, of Charleston, went home to be with her Lord and Savior Tuesday, February 1, 2022. Peg was born in Jonesville, Michigan, February 5, 1926. She was a 1947 graduate of Michigan State University (where she met Joe Greenlee) and became a teacher of...
For Your Consideration
As Molly hurriedly dressed for the occasion, so to speak, she remembered something her mother told her back in Ireland when she was a little girl. One of her schoolmates, a boy named Albert, had been bullying her relentlessly for months. He was a head taller than Molly and a strapping farm boy, so a fight was out of the question – Albert would have mopped the floor with little Molly.
BOE stretches ESSER funding to three schools
The Pocahontas County Board of Education received good news at ifs August 16 meeting concerning use of the ESSER – Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief – funding to install air conditioning in three schools. The project to air condition the schools has been in the works for...
Jeffrey Howe
Jeffrey Steven Howe, age 61, of Pocahontas County, passed away August 17, 2022, in Baltimore, Maryland, after battling a rare rheumatology disorder for the past five months. Born October 4, 1960, in Cleveland, Ohio, Jeff was a son of the late William Otis Howe and Beatrice Hileman-Grimes, and step-father, Dennis “Bud” Grimes.
Arnetta June Copelin
June is survived by daughters, Marilyn Allen of Edmond, Oklahoma, Kim Copelin of Marlinton, and Laura Hise, of Dunmore; brother, James Stephens, of Coalgate, Oklahoma; sister, Kay Cannon, of Edmond, Oklahoma; six grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. A service will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, August 21, 2022,...
For Your Consideration
Alerted by her collie, Shep, 82-year-old Molly Byrne Stewart peeked out the third-floor window of her fading Victorian house. Since the area around Humboldt declined, she had seen others prowling around her property, searching for anything they could find to sell for drugs. None of her garden tools remained on...
Broadband construction delays discussed
Cory Nipper, an Engineer at Thompson and Litton, Inc (T&L) announced at last month’s Pocahontas Broadband Council meeting that the start of construction of the ARC Broadband Project has been delayed from the end of 2022 until July of 2024. At the August 11 Broadband meeting, Nipper provided clarifications about this delayed timeline. He explained that the new timeline is still being refined as he continues to seek ways to shave time from some of the 40 or so steps that need to be completed before construction can begin.
Gaynell Curry
Gaynell Wagner Curry, age 92, former resident of Marlinton, peacefully passed into eternal life Thursday morning, March 26, 2020, at The Brier in Ronceverte. Born January 5, 1928, at Marlinton, she was a daughter of the late Clyde J. and Blanche Roberts Wagner. Gaynell was raised by her father, Clyde,...
Edna Scott
Edna Rachel Scott, 82, of Buckeye, went to be with the Lord Sunday, August 7, 2022, at Pocahontas Center in Marlinton. Edna was a member of the Cooktown Community Church and was a homemaker. In addition to her mother, she was preceded in death by her first husband, Claude Auldridge;...
Rose Hinkle
Mary Rose Hinkle, 78, of Marlinton, went to be with the Lord Sunday, August 14, 2022, at Henrico Doctors Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, just four days shy of her birthday, and after a period of declining health. Born August 18, 1943, at Cherry Grove, she was a daughter of the...
Zona Hoover
Zona Lee Hoover, 94, of Huntersville, passed away Wednesday, August 10, 2022, at Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Born April 27, 1928, in Durbin, she was a daughter of the late Gilbert Lee and Tressie Lambert Halterman. Zona attended the Marlinton Church of God and was a nurse’s aide at Denmar State...
For Your Consideration
Hear them roar ~ Some tough-as-nails women you should know. I attended grade school in the 1950s. In the fifth grade, we learned about all the famous frontiersmen: Daniel Boone, Lewis Wetzel, Simon Kenton and William Wells. All men – and never a woman – that was the 1950s for you.
Three Warriors part of WVU Honor Band
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John Ralston
Born May 7, 1930, in Cass, he was a son of the late Walter and Gertrude Ralston. John was an avid outdoorsman and loved hunting, fishing, ginsenging, and most of all golfing. He was a graduate of Green Bank High School and Davis & Elkins College of Engineering. He served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean Conflict, and retired from the NRAO.
Commission acts on grant application, support of MTA
Donna Ward appeared before the Pocahontas County Commission March 1 for a second public meeting regarding the county’s application for a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) for up to $250,000, which would cover the cost of demolishing the former Board of Education Building in Marlinton and disposal of the asbestos materials in the building.
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