HARMAN – A community nonprofit group has filed a lawsuit alleging that the Randolph County Board of Education illegally sold and closed the former Harman K-12 School, and seeks an injunction to re-open the school. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday afternoon in Randolph County Circuit Court ...
ELKINS - The Randolph County Commission approved a funding request from the Mountain State Forest Festival during its regular meeting this week. Mountain State Forest Festival Executive Director Heidi Bray gave a presentation to the Commission and requested the amount of $10,000 from budgeted RCC funds. "The money will help offset costs for all events, and in between this year and next year, we are looking to purchase more folding chairs, the white folding ones," Bray said. "We have approximately 150 and some of them have been damaged and are sitting in the trash pile." Commissioners ...
ELKINS - Davis & Elkins College alumni are gearing up to return to the campus they called home, where they built lasting friendships and began journeys to answer their life callings. The annual Homecoming Weekend celebration is set to take place Sept. 25-27 on the college grounds and throughout Elkins. “Homecoming is a special tradition that reminds us that no matter how many years have passed, the connection to D&E remains strong,” said Director of Alumni Engagement and Support Wendy Morgan ’12. “It brings alumni back to campus, reconnects friends as they share memories and ...
ELKINS — State Treasurer Larry Pack visited Elkins Thursday evening, speaking with The Inter-Mountain about the success of the Hope Scholarship Program, the increase in the program's participants around the state, how to claim unclaimed property and more. Pack was visiting Elkins to speak ...
ELKINS - The TIF Advisory Committee meets Monday to review firms for the city’s downtown streetscape and riverfront projects. Utility and in-city Fire & Rescue Fee bills are due Sunday, September 20, and September bulk pickup concludes this week. The TIF Advisory Committee meets Monday at 1 p.m. at the Phil Gainer Community Center to review Statements of Qualifications received for professional planning, engineering, urban design, and related services for the Downtown Streetscape Improvements and Riverfront Redevelopment & Beautification projects. The committee will select three ...
The Inter-Mountain photo by Brad Johnson A state Division of Highways worker backs his lawn mower down off a steep grade overlooking Harrison Avenue in Elkins Thursday morning, working to get the grass cut before any rain fell.
