CHARLESTON - U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, who easily secured the confidence of registered Republicans in West Virginia to seek a third six-year term, called for unity among West Virginia Republicans heading into the November general elections. During a press call with West Virginia ...
The Inter-Mountain photos by Anthony Gaynor The Buckhannon-Upshur High School Band, above, marches through the 2026 West Virginia Strawberry Festival's Grand Feature Parade in Buckhannon Saturday. In the bottom photo, Sophia Wagoner, the 2026 West Virginia Strawberry Festival Queen, rides a ...
ELKINS - Officials confirmed this week that construction of the new Railyard Event and Conference Center is on track to be completed by July 1. Randolph County Development Authority Director Robbie Morris told The Inter-Mountain that everything is on schedule for the opening of the new 28,000 square-foot, $11.6 million facility. "Things are looking good for the Conference Center and all of the other portions of the building for July 1," Morris said. "There have been some delays in the delivery of some of the furniture fixtures and equipment for the theater, so that has created a small ...
Editor’s Note: With new settlements being established in the Northwest Territory, leaders of the still young United States tackled another issue — how to link cities in the east with new opportunities in the west. This happened through an act of Congress creating what came to be known as the National Road. The concept of a national road actually goes back to our first president, George Washington, who understood that for the new nation to unify, it needed a connector. What initially was known as the Cumberland Road began construction in 1811 in Cumberland, Md., and reached Wheeling, ...
CHARLESTON - The U.S. Department of Justice said in a legal filing that it has the right to access unredacted voter registration files held by the West Virginia Secretary of State's Office. Attorneys for the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a memorandum Thursday with the U.S. District Court ...
ELKINS - Elkins' annual Fourth of July car show event will take place this year in Elkins City Park, officials said. The Randolph County Commission approved a $5,000 funding request from Our Town Inc. during its most recent meeting. Our Town requested the funding to help with the annual Mountain State Street Machine Fourth of July Car Show that will take place on July 4-5. Commissioners David Kesling and Cris Siler approved the request. Our Town volunteer and event organizer Priscilla Gay gave an information presentation to the Commission, starting off by officially announcing that ...
