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.
TUTORING: Kump Education Center is offering a four-week summer tutoring program. Any elementary aged student who needs help with reading is welcome. There is a cost. Students will meet with individual tutors one hour each week, through July 15. Call 304-801-3372 with
ELKINS — This Fourth July weekend, communities across the country and locally are going that extra mile to celebrate America 250 and the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Elkins, which has a full day of activities planned for July 4, including a parade, car show, concert and fireworks display, isn’t the lone spot in the area to find an Independence Day celebration. Surrounding counties have also scheduled events that will light up the Fourth of July skies, including
Director General Nathaniel Bonnell, Queen’s Department Director Megan Casto and Citizens Bank of West Virginia announce Pierslyn Laeic Farley as Woodly the Elf, the official mascot of the Mountain State Forest Festival.
Each year, a Randolph County student, from public, private or homeschooled students, is chosen to serve as Woodly the Elf through a poster contest.
Farley is the daughter of Cameron and Farrah Farley of Elkins. She is the granddaughter of Loren and Charlene Bonnell of Kerens and
Edna Wagner, 91, went home to be with her beloved husband Denver, son Randy, friends and loved ones on June 23, 2026.
Calling hours will be held at Newcomer Funeral Home, 131 N. Canton Rd. Akron, OH 44305 on Monday, June 29, at noon, with a funeral service to follow at 2 p.m.
A graveside service will be held at Valley Bend Cemetery in Belington, West Virginia, where Edna will be laid to rest with Denver and Randy.
Talbott Funeral Home is handling West Virginia arrangements.
To leave a special
ELKINS — Probable cause was found against a Randolph County woman accused of being an accessory after allegedly helping a man she knew was wanted for multiple felonies.
Sara Elizabeth Nelson, 34, of Mill Creek, is charged with one count of accessory after the fact, a felony. She is currently being held at the Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a $10,000 10% to the court bond.
In Tuesday, Randolph County Magistrate Michael Dyer found probable cause against Nelson after a preliminary hearing in
There is a coherent worldview behind the vice president’s foreign policy and that is exactly the problem. J.D. Vance does not stumble into the outcomes he produces. He believes in them. He sees a tripartite world with America secured in its own hemisphere, Russia dominant across its near abroad and China supreme in Asia. He appears willing to trade away 70 years of American primacy to build it. The retreat is the design.
Start with Iran. Vance made himself the public face of a memorandum of
CHARLESTON – West Virginia has lost the enrollment equivalent of six full counties in a single year, a crisis that state Board of Education President Paul Hardesty warns will lead to financial disaster unless state leaders modernize the school aid formula.
In a conference call Wednesday morning, West Virginia Board of Education President Paul Hardesty said continuing declines in student enrollment, an antiquated school aid formula providing less funding to county school systems, and an increase
BELINGTON — Gov. Patrick Morrisey joined Barbour County residents in celebrating Belington’s new America 250 mural and West Virginia Day.
On June 19, the Barbour County Commission hosted a public ribbon cutting for a new mural, “Cerulean Sky,” on the Golden Rule Building in Belington. The mural is part of the state’s America 250 Mural Project, where all 55 counties received funding to create a hand-painted mural that “celebrates both local and national pride,” according to the West Virginia
MORGANTOWN — UCF senior transfer forward Khyala Ngodu had the reality dating show “Love Island” on her television the other night, but she wasn’t watching alone. The rest of the West Virginia women’s basketball team was there, too, laughing, smiling and talking about the show as most women around the country are.
“That was probably my favorite thing together,” Ngodu said.
It sounds like this team had been together for a season or two, like last year’s Big 12 Championship team was back and ready
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.
TUTORING: Kump Education Center is offering a four-week summer tutoring program. Any elementary aged student who needs help with reading is welcome. There is a cost. Students will meet with individual tutors one hour each week, through July 15. Call 304-801-3372 with
