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Distance learning needs to stay in place

As many are already aware, on Nov. 17 the Randolph County Board of Education made the decision to end distance learning. According to the article printed in The Inter-Mountain on Nov. 19, 1,006 students are enrolled in distance learning and 326 of these students are failing at least one class. It is my understanding that this is the main reason for ending distance learning. The letter that we received from the Board of Education stated, “The success for students in distance learning is low. While there are families who have embraced this option, the large majority of students are ...

Wimer Stadium plans need to be transparent

To EHS alumni, former athletes, band members, cheer squads and all that have utilized Wimer Stadium: I have waited for someone to question the deceitful and non-transparent information and events surrounding the namesake of former Coach Frank Wimer and our football stadium. It seems to me that our Board of Education has planned to move the football stadium, permanently. Our young men and women performed remarkably well this 2020 football season under very difficult conditions. They had no home field to play on nor home field advantage due to the sudden closure of Wimer Field. ...

Mayoral candidate discusses ATVs

Dear residents of Elkins: I am taking this opportunity to introduce myself as candidate for mayor in the next City Election March 2, 2021. I have been attending city council and committee meetings regularly to become familiar with current business, issues and concerns. One issue that recently surfaced involves an ordinance allowing ATV and UTV usage on all Elkins’ city streets. Currently individuals are permitted to ride “street legal” ATVs and UTVs on state maintained roads and highways, but are prohibited from riding them on our city streets. If the aforementioned ...

Thankful for what they had

This is the eve of Thanksgiving and I just wanted to share some thoughts of a Thanksgiving day in Vietnam. I joined 2nd Bn, 5th Marines on Hill 69 at An Ton Bridge near Chu Lai in 1966. Several companies were up north near the DMZ on Operation Prairie and in late November 1966 our battalion conducted Operation Mississippi in the An Hoa basin relieving 3rd Bn 9th Marines. We had assumed the tactical area of responsibility (TAOR) of protecting Liberty Bridge, Nong Song (coal mine), and the An Hoa industrial complex area and Duc Duc district refugee compound. We also had responsibility ...

Election disappoints Trump supporter

It isn’t much fun anymore cleaning up behind the same old horse from which the same old fertilizer falls, day after day and year after year, but I’m going to do it one more time since there appears to be two or three, possibly four Democrats in the area who get their news from MSNBC, CNN and other leftist web sites. Before I go further I want to acknowledge Timothy Simmons’ letter in the Nov. 14 edition. You are right, Mr. Simmons. You couldn’t be more concise. Voting could be so easy, even in national elections, that you could vote from home thru your local county website and ...

Kroger, employees work on agreement

Whether it’s for the turkey at Thanksgiving dinner or the fresh food and essentials your family needs, Kroger has been proud to serve as the neighborhood grocer for West Virginia families for nearly a hundred years. What started as just five stores in Charleston in 1926 has grown to forty locations across the Mountain State, currently employing more than 4,200 West Virginians and providing career opportunities to tens of thousands more over our nearly century-long legacy in the state. From Charleston to Princeton, Huntington to Morgantown, Kroger is a cornerstone of West Virginia’s ...