Some people complain that newspapers don’t publish enough happy news, but this week we reported on an event that was absolutely joyous to 20 groups of family and friends.
Twenty individuals from 12 countries became new United States citizens during the annual Naturalization Ceremony in Elkins.
The new citizens hailed from Brazil, Ecuador, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
This is an annual event that we at The Inter-Mountain love
CHARLESTON – The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.
Aug. 23, 1949: John Chambers was born in Cleveland but spent much of his formative years in Ravenswood and Charleston. He is best known as the former CEO and chairman of the Cisco Systems technology company.
Aug. 23, 1970: The Mormon Church established its first “stake,” or congregation, in West Virginia. The stake was organized
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Community Calendar is reserved for nonprofit, civic organizations. Unless otherwise noted, events listed should be considered free and open to the public. Entries appear in chronological order as space allows.
ELKINS FARMERS MARKET: Open every Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon behind the Railroad Depot in Elkins. Parking can be found behind the Center Branch Church (formerly the Summit Church) buildings. The market consists of a large variety of vegetables during the growing
MORGANTOWN — U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito has spent her recess crisscrossing West Virginia, looking at the progress that has been made in many of its corners. The West Virginia Republican was at the Mitchell Power Plant in Marshall County on Tuesday and made at stop in Morgantown on Wednesday to witness the ribbon cutting for West Virginia University’s newly renovated School of Dentistry.
Yet when she returns to Washington D.C., she expects to have a busy schedule waiting for her, one she
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CHARLESTON – A former teacher and member of the West Virginia House of Delegates has been indicted by a federal grand jury on three counts related to grooming and sexual activity with a minor.
Elliott Pritt, 36, of Oak Hill, is charged with sexual exploitation of a child, coercion and enticement of a child, and tampering with a witness, victim or informant, according to a press release from U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia Moore Capito.
Pritt was arrested July 22 on the
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ELKINS — The Randolph County Commission is looking at whether to reimpose a special ambulance service fee that was suspended last month, even though an excess levy to fund ambulance service is scheduled to be on the county’s November General Election ballot.
Randolph County Prosecuting Attorney Michael Parker on Thursday afternoon provided commissioners with information concerning the Special Emergency Ambulance Service Fee Ordinance that was suspended in early July.
The West Virginia State
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MORGANTOWN – Matthew L. Harvey didn’t parse words during his remarks Thursday.
“The people are not misguided,” he said. “They are not ‘accidental’ criminals. They are predators.”
Harvey, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia, was speaking generally on Thursday about a conduit of one-way commerce lethally linking the Motor City of Detroit to the Mountain State of West Virginia.
Specifically, though, he was at the Erickson Alumni Center of the state’s flagship university on
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ELKINS — A Randolph County Schools bus caught on fire today while traveling to Grant County, but no students were injured, officials said.
The Randolph County school system’s transportation director, Nick Alfred, told The Inter-Mountain that the Elkins High School volleyball team was traveling to Moorefield today when the brakes on the bus got hot, and then caught fire.
Alfred said the bus driver put out the fire with the fire extinguisher carried on the bus. He said the local fire department
MORGANTOWN – A drug-trafficking and money-laundering operation running from Detroit into North Central West Virginia has been “dismantled” thanks to a multi-state task force effort, officials said Thursday.
Indictments for a total of 28 defendants — ranging from Detroit, Philadelphia, Mississippi and West Virginia — were announced during a press conference at WVU Erickson Alumni Center Thursday.
The indictments cover a period of more than two years, during which the suspects conspired to possess
CHARLESTON – A former teacher and member of the West Virginia House of Delegates has been indicted by a federal grand jury on three counts related to grooming and sexual activity with a minor.
Elliott Pritt, 36, of Oak Hill, is charged with sexual exploitation of a child, coercion and enticement of a child, and tampering with a witness, victim or informant, according to a press release from U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia Moore Capito.
Pritt was arrested July 22 on the
