MONTEREY — Just like that, Highland County Public Library has turned 50. Like Arnold “Watty Piper” Munk’s beloved train engine in the 1930 American folktale, this Highland mainstay and community hub ...

Landon Arritt hits his tee shot on No. 17. HOT SPRINGS — Tee time: A new season and a new district. The Alleghany Cougars opened the 2025-26 high school sports season the past two Mondays with ...

By Staff on August 14, 2025 BY ZACH POTTER • STAFF WRITER WARM SPRINGS — The Bath County Board of Supervisors did not approve an appropriation request from the school system for a nurse at Bath County ...

Several of the 250 vehicles at StreetScene were on display at Mid-City Mall parking lot. (Recorder photo by Gavin Dressler) COVINGTON — Automobiles ranging from vintage to modern lined the streets of ...

Hunter Brown, holding a golf ball in center, aced the par-4, 17th hole at The Old Course recently. His playing partners included, from left, Kris Philips, Caleb Fry and Dylan McComb. (Photo courtesy ...

• Bath County Public Schools have been busy getting ready and welcomed back students Tuesday, Aug. 12. Join me in wishing them blessings this school year. I am sure everyone is thankful for the rest ...

Rigged America? Trump benefits more than anyone else By Staff on August 14, 2025 Editor, The Recorder, Trump says the recent disastrous jobs report is “rigged” because he doesn’t like the numbers.

By Staff on August 14, 2025 LEWISBURG, W.Va. — Charlene Ellen Bailey, 71, of Lewisburg, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, at Lewis Gale Medical Center in Salem. She was born Sept. 13, 1953, a ...

By Staff on August 14, 2025 COVINGTON — Peggy Joann “Penny” Smith Wells, 72, of Covington died, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, at the Brian Center Alleghany in Low Moor. Peggy was born Aug. 15, 1952, in ...