Green Bank, WV

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer One of the drawbacks – or assets, depending on who you ask – to living in Pocahontas County is the National Radio Quiet Zone which prohibits cellphone towers in the proximity of the Green Bank Observatory. Of course, there are cell- phone towers in the county, but they don’t cover every […]

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer Ninety years. That’s how long Bob Vance, of Green Bank, has been alive. Well, technically, 90 years and four months. In those 90 years, Vance has seen a world of change in Pocahontas County – the growth of the Green Bank Observatory, the consolidation of three high schools into one and a […]

Thursday, August 26, 1976 CLASS REUNION Green Bank High School Class of 1966 held a 10-year reunion over the Fourth of July weekend. They met at the Arbovale Community Building Saturday morning for coffee and doughnuts. A delicious meal was served that evening at the Durbin Methodist Church for the classmates and their husbands and […]

Tim Walker AMR Reporter Parks and Recreation Director Alyssa Vickers appeared at the August 6 Pocahontas County Commission meeting and reported that, thanks to a donation, they now have the funding to keep the swimming pool at Green Bank Observatory open through the month of August. At the July 21 commission meeting, Vickers had said […]

The giveaway will be in Green Bank on Wednesday, August 12 at the BFD Fire and Rescue Squad from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., while supplies last. #PocahontasCounty #WOAY