ELKINS — City Hall is urging residents to sign up for emergency text alerts. Residents with mobile phones can receive important alerts including weather warnings, street closures, and water outages. They will also receive reminders about changes to city services due to holidays. Please sign up at https://cityofelkinswv.com/alerts/.

Our community partners, including Citizens Promoting Community and our local Chamber, would like you to add two “save the dates” in your calendars:

Blue Christmas Celebration: Saturday, November 29, 5:30 p.m. in front of Elkins City Hall.

“Jingle All the Way” Christmas Parade, Friday, December 5, at 6:00 p.m. downtown, followed by the official Christmas Tree lighting at Elkins Town Square.

The City of Elkins has upgraded its digital infrastructure with its transition to a .gov domain. Our new online address is now https://cityofelkinswv.gov. Everyone may still email City of Elkins employees and access our website using the .com domain (suffix). The change to a .gov domain provides a more secure environment for the City’s conducting of business with its residents and vendors. Learn more about this change at https://cityofelkinswv.gov/elkins-dot-gov/.

Davis & Elkins College, the local Chamber, and the City of Elkins want to hear from local businesses on what can be done to strengthen the local economy. All responses to this D&E survey will be kept confidential; this is the link to get started: https://bit.ly/ElkinsSmallBizSurvey

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

For November:

Monday: Monday, November 3

Tuesday: November 11

Wednesday: November 19

Thursday weekly trash: November 28

Friday weekly trash: November 28

*Note: Bulk pickup regularly scheduled for Thursday and Friday pickups in November both will occur on Friday, November 28 because of the Thanksgiving holiday.

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/.

During Thanksgiving week, customers who have their regularly scheduled garbage pickup on Wednesday and Thursday will have it collected Wednesday morning, Nov. 26, due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

Street sweeping ended on Thursday, October 2. Leaf collection started on Monday, October 13. Residents are not required to move their vehicles weekly until spring 2026. Please do your part to ensure leaves do not damage Elkins’ sewer system. More information is here: https://cityofelkinswv.com/leaf-collection

The City of Elkins reminds residents that Country Roads Transit runs two routes throughout Elkins Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Please read https://cityofelkinswv.com/CRT/ for more information; you may also call 304-636-6472 or 1-877-636-6472.

City Hall will be closed on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 27 and 28, for the Thanksgiving holiday.

The next Elkins City Council meeting is scheduled for Thursday, November 6, at 7:00 p.m. The agenda will be posted early next week. Last week’s City Hall News stating the next council meeting was scheduled for late October was an error; we apologize for the mistake.

The following committees meet this coming week:

Public Safety: Monday, November 3, 2:30 p.m. Agenda TBD.

Rules and Ordinances: Monday, November 3, 3:30 p.m. Items on the agenda include considering requests to change the speed limits on High and Bruce Streets.