MOUNDSVILLE – Marshall County’s leaders said they appreciated the late Jim Cochran’s great work as a journalist and also just getting to talk with him as a fellow resident and friend.

Cochran, 90, a longtime reporter with The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register and writer of the weekly column “The Marshall Memo,” died Aug. 15.

Tom Hart, director of the Marshall County Emergency Management Agency, said he was sad to hear about Cochran’s passing.

“We used to kid each other. He would stop in my office on the way to the commission meetings. “He would ask, ‘Are you going to do anything today?’ I’d tell him, ‘I don’t have time to talk. I’m very busy.’ We used to chuckle about that,” Hart said.

“He would stop in every once in a while, since I’m from Cameron, he’d stop and ask what was go

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