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Are You a Doer or a Developer?

Are You a Doer or a Developer? If you leave, who will take your place? If there’s a family emergency, who can fill in for you? Should job openings be filled externally or internally with a candidate who has been developed along the way?   A related question: Are individuals who achieve great individual results great at developing others? Most know the answer is “not always.” It could be that things come more naturally to them, and they assume the same is true for others. Most organizations have great individual performers who don’t achieve success in a broader sense. They ...

‘A Community School’

ELKINS - When the students at North Elementary School said goodbye to their classmates for summer break this month, it marked the last time that any farewells would be given at the school.     After 50 years of students walking the halls of North Elementary, located in the Highland Park ...

Electric Mayhem: Lawmakers look at data centers

CHARLESTON – Monday’s series of legislative interim meetings began with Republican lawmakers questioning the benefits of two proposed electric transmission line projects and ended with Democratic lawmakers calling for changes to West Virginia’s data center district law. Members of the ...

Area Religion Activities

Parish House Announcements, Buckhannon On the parish calendar: Sisters group meets at 9 a.m. Tuesdays at Irons Chapel, Chapel Hill United Methodist Church, for all ladies who wish to grow in their Christian walk. Pam Walling serves as facilitator. Study Group will be 7-8 p.m. Wednesdays in Godwin Fellowship Hall at First United Methodist Church. Pastor Steve Meadows leads a discussion of Max Lucado’s “Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Need.” All are welcome to join the conversation The Clothes Closet, located behind the Parish House at 47 Sedgewick St., welcomes ...

Girl Scouts helping with library fundraiser

ELKINS - A small but enthusiastic group of girls, ages 10 to 11, from Girl Scout Troop 10142 are partnering with the Bookhounds, a Friends of the Library organization, to raise funds for the Elkins-Randolph County Public Library. The girls are helping to advertise, promote, and implement a ...

Body found along with missing man’s vehicle

ELKINS — A body was found alongside the vehicle belonging to a Tucker County man who has been missing in Randolph County for over a week, officials report. The Randolph County Sheriff's Office issued a statement regarding the "significant discovery" of a body, along with the vehicle of James Hedrick, 82, who has been missing since June 8. According to the statement, at approximately 1:48 p.m. on Thursday, deputies with the Randolph County Sheriff's were executing a search along an "old, logging-style road." During this search, a member of the department located the vehicle belonging ...