The Rotary Club of Elkins has welcomed Jocelyn Wyatt as a new member. Wyatt is the CEO of Alight, a global humanitarian organization that works alongside refugees and forcibly displaced people around the world to help them survive and thrive. Before Alight, Wyatt co-founded and led ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia has seen improvements in its summative assessment scores back to pre-pandemic levels for English Language Arts and Math, but this year's assessment results show those improvements slowing. The West Virginia Board of Education received a report Wednesday morning ...
ELKINS — Elkins Mayor Jerry Marco has been sworn in as the 2026-2027 president of the West Virginia Municipal League, and the organization's next annual convention will take place in Elkins. During a ceremony in Charleston on Aug. 6, outgoing WVML president and Charleston Mayor Amy Shuler ...
PARSONS — A Maryland man is facing a felony charge in Tucker County after officers allegedly found more than 100 grams of possible fentanyl with a value of over $14,000 in his vehicle. Kadeem Roderick Santiful, of Randallstown, Maryland, 33, is charged with one count of possession with ...
ELKINS — The anticipated move-in date for Elkins City Hall will be postponed until September after an equipment malfunction damaged the front of the building this week, officials report. During Elkins City Council's Thursday night meeting, City Operations Manager Michael Kesecker reported that, between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. on Wednesday, a hydraulic lift used by the masonry company working on the City Hall malfunctioned and caused damage to the building. "When it malfunctioned, it caught part of the concrete barrier rail, for lack of a better word, on top of City Hall and pulled it off ...
ELKINS — The Randolph County School system's student enrollment for the coming school year will be around 250 less than last year. Randolph County Schools Superintendent Dr. Derek Lambert gave the Board of Education an update on the system's enrollment status during Tuesday evening's special BOE meeting. The special meeting was scheduled in order for the BOE to approve personnel moves before teachers reported to their respective schools. Randolph County students' first day of school will be on Wednesday, Aug. 19. Lambert discussed Randolph County's current enrollment numbers after ...
