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Fall is in the air and the spookiest season of all is around the corner. You could be dressing up as ghosts, goblins, and witches or you could be bundled up enjoying hot apple cider, exploring the Fall foliage...

When: Tuesday, May 8 · 6:30 am - 7:30 pm Where: Your local polling place! (Find your polling place.) Which positions are up for a vote? Local positions Board of Education Conservation...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Looking for some excitement as the summer winds down in Randolph County?  Look no further – we’ve assembled the ultimate list of adventures to end your summer vacation. Have fun, check out our bucket...

Who are the rabble-rousing change-makers in your community? Maybe they’re organizing city council candidate forums and spreading the word about the importance of voting in local elections, or working to...

With Spring leading the charge towards warmer weather and longer days, we’ve put together a list of upcoming foot races coming to Randolph County.  Time to shake off the dust, lace up your kicks, and go the...

Do you know what today is? If your only answer is April Fool’s Day, you don’t live in Elkins, West Virginia. If you do live in Elkins, West Virginia and your only answer is still April Fool’s Day, you...

West Virginia’s Poet Laureate Marc Harshman will share his talents in two public events for the Davis & Elkins College Writers’ Series, Tuesday, March 28 and Wednesday, March 29. Harshman’s second...

Cody Thompson, candidate for Fifth Ward council member. At 2:55 p.m., with only minutes remaining before the end of the 48-hour period in which candidates in the 2017 Elkins Municipal Election could...

So many times in this world people are looking out for #1. They are concerned with how well they are doing, often at the expense of others. The idea that for you or your business to be doing well means that...

If you’ve never been a candidate for public office, you should try it sometime. It’s incredibly exciting, frustrating, energizing, enervating, educating, and exacerbating, all at the same time. Quite an...

The Randolph County Housing Authority (RCHA) has taken the time to reflect on its recent accomplishments. The successes of the RCHA have been felt on a grand scale, as they continue to seek to improve public...

The Downtown Elkins business The Holistic Housewife started in the summer of 2015 as a way for owner Amanda McLeese to get some relief from migraine headaches. With information gathered from the internet,...

Have an event or idea for an article? Email us at elkinite@elkinite.com  This is the perfect weekend to get out and enjoy the best of Randolph County. Here are two cool events happening today in Randolph...

SEVENPerformance in Elkins is offering two free TRX / RIP Group Classes per week to anyone who has registered for the Sunset Chase 5K Chamber Challenge. Running a race for the first time can be intimidating,...

Bailey’s house is a home constructed for the specific needs of one disabled young woman and her family in Randolph County, West Virginia. Heather and Will Scott had a long list of needs when their daughter...

Local flood response organizers are reporting an urgent need for volunteers to help with flood cleanup efforts over the next 10 days. According to Volunteer West Virginia Executive Director Heather Foster,...