Cooke felt pain before pleasure at WVU
EHS grad sees success on the field and in the classroom
ELKINS — Former Elkins High School standout Anna Belan was recently named to the 2025 Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) second team for ...
A hunter’s attitude and spring gobbler season
Some friends and I were talking a few weeks ago about the current attitude of some hunters these days and hunters’ ethics in general. I know hunting has changed ...
Spring gobbler harvest numbers and rattlesnake encounters
If procrastination was an Olympic sport, I would have been in Paris collecting my gold medal. Here it is the first part of September, and I am ...
Serious Issue
On its face, copper theft is a dumb crime, culprits breaking into homes, business or other areas to yank out that metal and sell it somewhere else. It’s just ...
Red Cross
“We never take a holiday because disasters never take a holiday.” As Wood County Commissioners recognized American Red Cross Month, Sharon ...
Christopher Melvin ‘Chrissie’ Driscoll Jr.
Christopher Melvin “Chrissie” Driscoll Jr., 82, a resident of Elkins, passed away Wednesday, March 18, 2026, at Autumn Lake Health Care of Crystal Springs ...
Georgia M. Mullenax
Christopher Melvin ‘Chrissie’ Driscoll Jr.
If you want something to stick, say it again
Repetition can be a good thing. If you follow my work, hardwiring is a word you are likely familiar with. It’s how I describe systems and behaviors that are in ...




