ELKINS — The City of Elkins is asking residents to sign up for emergency alerts. Residents with mobile phones can receive important alerts including weather warnings and water outages. They will also receive reminders about changes to city services due to holidays. Sign up at https://cityofelkinswv.com/alerts/.

The City of Elkins is currently partnering with the Mountain State Forest Festival’s organizers and additional community groups on ensuring that this year’s event, starting today and ending on Oct. 5, is a success. Maps tentatively showing areas of towns affected by events, street closures, and staging areas are posted online here: https://cityofelkinswv.com/msff-maps/.

Friday garbage service for Oct. 3 is rescheduled for Thursday, Oct. 2. The Sanitation Department will be helping to clean up the City for the parades on Friday and Saturday nights as the Forest Festival wraps up; plus because of the expected traffic, that week’s Friday garbage service is moved up a day. Please have your garbage out by 6 a.m. on that Thursday, Oct. 2.

The City of Elkins wishes to remind residents that Country Roads Transit runs two routes throughout Elkins Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Please read https://cityofelkinswv.com/CRT/ for more information; you may also call 304-636-6472 or 1-877-636-6472.

The City’s Sanitation Department announces that for October 2025, the free monthly bulk item pickup (one large item, such as an appliance, TV, or mattress) schedule is as follows:

For October:

Monday: Monday, Oct. 6

Tuesday: Tuesday, Oct. 14

Wednesday: Wednesday, Oct. 15

Thursday: Thursday, Oct. 23

Friday: Friday, Oct. 24

This free service is for ONE ITEM only, such as an appliance, TV, mattress, or piece of furniture.

To schedule and pay for a Special Trash Pickup, such as a truck bed- or dumpster-sized load, please call 304.636.1414, ext. 1437.

For information on Elkins’ bulk item pickup and monthly schedule: https://cityofelkinswv.com/bulk-pickup/.

Again, Friday garbage pickup service the first week of October has been moved up a day to Thursday, Oct. 2 because of the Forest Festival.

As is the case annually this time of year, this week’s City Council meeting has been canceled due to the Mountain State Forest Festival.

In addition, there are no City committee meetings this week.

All City Hall meetings are generally held at the Phil Gainer Community Center, 142 Robert E. Lee Avenue Extension, in Elkins, unless noted otherwise.

Keep informed of all upcoming meetings by visiting https://cityofelkinswv.com/agenda-center/. Residents may also set up email alerts to remind them about upcoming meetings.

All upcoming City Council and Committee meetings, along with their agendas and locations, can be viewed here: https://elkinswv.portal.civicclerk.com/.