Cultural Awareness and Enrichment Group Raises Awareness JoLynn Powers February 13, 2018 For twenty years the members of the Cultural Awareness and Enrichment Group (CAEG) in Elkins, West Virginia have worked to educate Randolph County community members about diversity issues. The group continues...
Coming Home To Elkins Grace DeMeo January 5, 2018 Elkins has always been a special place to me, despite not living here for nearly 20 years. I know that comes across as a strange sentence, but bear with me. We have a saying in my family about me that goes...
Creating Christmas at the Community Center Taira Landavere December 8, 2017 This past weekend the Phil Gainer Community Center welcomed thirty vendors from all over West Virginia that sell a variety of arts, crafts, specialty food and much more. After the Christmas Bazaar took place,...
18 Ways to Avoid the Winter Blues in Randolph County Taira Landavere November 20, 2017 Winter is here! Some people love this season and some not so much. Let’s learn to embrace it! Just because the first snowflakes have already fallen from the sky, does not mean we should hibernate and avoid...
Art and History Spark Interest in Downtown Elkins W.Va. JoLynn Powers October 12, 2017 Quilts have always kept us warm, reminded us of our past and brought families and friends together. These same ideas are used to create the Elkins Main Street’s Heritage Quilt Trail - a community-supported...
Behind the Barbecue: the Back Porch BBQ Story Emily Coffman October 6, 2017 Pictured in cover photo: Jacob Harman, Meghan Dolly, Jim Harman, Allison Dolly, Tracy Harman, Sharon Coberly, Devan Fletcher, Janet Harman, Hunter Harman, and Tammy Dolly On Wednesday night I had intended...
Top Forest Festival Eats: City Park Edition Emily Coffman October 6, 2017 After spending three years ranking the foods of the carnival I decided it was time to broaden my horizons and visit the food stands of the city park. The park’s food alley was full of friendly people and...
Top Forest Festival Eats: 2017 Edition Emily Coffman October 5, 2017 Guess what time it is, folks. That’s right: Forest Festival time. For the third year in a row I took to the streets with some colleagues in order to find the best foods of the Mountain State Forest Festival....
Youthbuild Students Elected National Leaders JoLynn Powers August 30, 2017 Two students from Youthbuild North Central, located in Elkins West Virginia, have been elected to the National Young Leaders Council. The Young Leaders Council is the peer-elected student leadership body for...
Result of Fifth Ward Recount Announced Sutton Stokes March 22, 2017 Meeting as the Elkins Municipal Election Canvassing Board on Monday night, Elkins Common Council recounted Fifth Ward ballots cast on or before the city election held March 7. Entering the recount, Dave...
Elkins council “declares” 2017 election results Sutton Stokes March 14, 2017 By: Sutton Stokes After convening as the Elkins Municipal Election Canvassing Board, Elkins council adjusted vote totals as a result of accepting some provisional ballots and “declared” the following...
Elkins Election: What the heck is a “canvass”? Sutton Stokes March 14, 2017 By: Sutton Stokes As we reported here, Elkins Common Council met on Monday as the Elkins Municipal Election Canvassing Board to “canvass” the election. We reported further, that only one ward’s...
Why are some ballots “provisional”? Sutton Stokes March 14, 2017 By: Sutton Stokes As we reported here, vote totals in the 2017 Elkins Municipal Election changed slightly on Monday as a result of the Elkins council’s canvass of the election.This was because one of the...