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Elkins City Council meets Thursday, Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. at the Phil Gainer Community Center. Also this week, the Tree Board meets Tuesday, and the West Virginia Division of Highways plans pavement repairs on several state-maintained streets in Elkins. = The Tree Board meets Tuesday, Sept. 1 at 5:30 p.m. at the Darden House. Elkins City Council meets Thursday, Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. at the Phil Gainer Community Center. The meeting will include a public hearing concerning the proposed update to the Elkins Comprehensive Plan, the city’s long-range policy document guiding decisions about land ...

WVU AI research helping scientists

With help from artificial intelligence, West Virginia University researchers are speeding up environmental scientists’ access to time-sensitive data about ecosystem health, allowing experts to respond rapidly to events like droughts or wildfires. Supported by an Early-Concept Grant for ...

Parton inspired new Read Aloud campaign

CHARLESTON – Dawn Miller, Executive Director of Read Aloud West Virginia, announced the launch of a fundraising campaign to remember the late Dolly Parton and the Imagination Library she created to promote literacy. For the month of September, in memory of Dolly Parton, Read Aloud West ...

Ready for Football Friday

The Inter-Mountain photo by Edgar Kelley High school football stadiums around the area have been undergoing final preparations in anticipation for the 2026 season openers tonight. A crew member, above, works the lights at Tiger Stadium at Elkins High school recently. EHS will host Lincoln ...

GameChanger program to stay at EMS

ELKINS — Elkins City Council has approved using more than $12,000 in opioid settlement funds to keep Elkins Middle School a GameChanger School for a second year. During City Council's most recent meeting, the eight present council members voted in favor of Resolution 1944, which authorizes using opioid settlement funds "to implement the GameChanger substance misuse prevention program at Elkins Middle School for a second school year." Third Ward council member Christopher Lowther and Fifth Ward representative Cody Thompson were absent from the meeting. According to Resolution 1944, ...

Man charged in stolen copper wire case

ELKINS — A Randolph County man faces a felony charge after allegedly breaking into a company's trailer and stealing $750 of copper wire. Mark Jay Courtney, 47, of Elkins, is charged with one count of entry into a building other than a dwelling, a felony. He is currently being held at the ...