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Flood watch issued until Friday

ELKINS - Booming thunder woke many area residents in the early morning hours Tuesday as storms passed through the region.      Some areas of Randolph County received close to two inches of rain between midnight and residents' early morning commutes, according to the National Weather Service in Charleston.    "It seems like on average, we received at least an inch and a quarter (of rain overnight) with some locally higher spots that were close to two inches," Megan Kiebler, the lead meteorologist for the NWS in Charleston, told The Inter-Mountain Tuesday. "Those storms that ...

Elkins woman facing child abuse charges

ELKINS – An Elkins woman is facing felony charges after being accused of abusing three juveniles. Sara R. Daniels, 36, of Elkins, has been charged with three counts of child abuse resulting in injury, a felony, and one count of strangulation, also a felony. She is being held in the ...

2nd annual Denim & Diamonds set for Aug. 22

ELKINS – The Elkins-Randolph County Chamber of Commerce invites the community to “dust off your boots” and attend the second-annual Denim & Diamonds event. The event is set for Saturday, Aug. 22 at the Dakan Arena at 4-H Camp Pioneer in Beverly. The gates will open at 5:30 p.m. and ...

Free dinner planned for flood responders, volunteers

BUCKHANNON – A free community dinner is being planned as a “thank you” to all the “volunteers, first responders, organizations and community members who came together” during the deadly flooding in Upshur and Lewis counties in July 21. WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital will host the “Stronger Together Free Community Dinner” from 4-6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 21 — a month to the day after the flooding began — at the Daily Grind, located at 20 Raella Lane in Buckhannon. “In the days following the flood, we saw an incredible example of what makes this community so ...

Lawmakers blast rising costs, data failures

CHARLESTON – A recent audit of the West Virginia Department of Human Services found a potential for $68 million in savings, but department officials said that could take years to realize and lawmakers expressed frustration at growing expenses for the data program underpinning the entire ...

Coalition to power next generation of manufacturing

Five years. That’s how long Erienne Olesh expected to stay in Morgantown when she arrived at West Virginia University to pursue a doctorate in neuroscience. She planned to earn her PhD and build a career researching treatments for stroke patients and concussions. Instead, WVU gave her ...