Thanksgiving in Barbour County
Happy Thanksgiving from Barbour County. Deer season is upon us. To some, this is a holiday just as important as Thanksgiving and Christmas. I hope everyone is safe in the woods this year. There will be...
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Natural Beauty
“November comes And November goes, With the last red berries And the first white snows. With night come early, And dawn come late, And ice in the bucket And frost by the gate. The fires burn And the...
View ArticleElmer and Alta Cross
The children of Elmer K. and Alta C. (Gainer) Cross are hosting an open house in celebration of their 75th wedding anniversary today at the Kesling Mill Lions Club at 2138 Childers Run Road,...
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SPECIAL HONOR
‘I Dare You’ Award winners Madalynn Ferguson and Bryer Mallow. “I Dare You” Award winners Madalynn Ferguson and Bryer Mallow.Outstanding 4-H’er Award winners Aidan Lowther and Logan Nixon. Randolph...
View ArticleLorraine Morgan
The summer of Lorraine Moran’s 101st birthday began in late May when she traveled to Ohio for the early June wedding of her Great-Granddaughter, Lexi Hall. Lorraine honored Great-Granddaughter Lexi by...
View ArticleWinter is here in Barbour County
Hello from Barbour County! Brrrr… I think it’s almost winter time, ready or not. As the work crew begins their destruction of the former Sheetz gas station site in Belington this week, removing the...
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SPECIAL GATHERING
“Happy Holidays”, “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Hanukkah” are greetings we hear regularly at this time of year as we gather to celebrate the season. The members of Emma Scott Garden Club (ESGC) also...
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2024 Year in Review
No. 1 Closure Controversy Oct. 3 By Edgar Kelley Staff Writer ELKINS — The Randolph County Board of Education publicly released information for the first time about upcoming votes to close schools in...
View ArticleChilly Happy New Year from Barbour County
Happy New Year from Barbour County. Did you make any resolutions? I usually don’t, but this year, I’m going to do better at getting the news in more timely. With the holidays and vacations, I have...
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Exploring the Mountains
Now that West Virginia’s rolling mountains have turned from green to fall’s signature patchwork colors, and then to bare limbs waiting for spring’s breath of life. Now that the cold and snow has...
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Learning on the Job
ELKINS — For my freshmen year of high school at Highland Adventist School, I interned with The Inter-Mountain for two weeks from Jan. 7-17. I’ve always loved writing, although I lean toward fiction,...
View ArticleBarbour offers activities
Hello from Barbour County! Are you staying warm enough? I suppose the highlight of everyone’s conversations lately has been the cold temperatures. Belington Bakery will be having its one-year...
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Charm and Beauty
The annual Run For It event draws a large crowd to Davis annually. TUCKER COUNTY — Davis and Thomas were among the five West Virginia towns to make a nationwide list celebrating the 106 “Best Mountain...
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Larry and Evelyn Dodrill
Larry and Evelyn Dodrill Snyder are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary. Larry and Evelyn said “I do” on Jan. 31, 1965, in Monterey, Virginia, in a ceremony officiated by Reverend Kenneth...
View ArticleJENNER
Iris Hayes Jenner, a daughter of Austin and Marissa Jenner of Martinsburg was born on Jan. 1, 2025, at 10:30 a.m. She weighed 2 pounds and 8 ounces and was 16 and a half inches long. She was born at...
View ArticleBarbour activities abound
Hello from Barbour County, where we traded the snow for rain and flooding. Tacy Community Association will be having a breakfast fundraiser on Feb. 8 from 7 a.m – noon. Menu consists of buckwheat...
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Floodwaters Rise Across Area
The Inter-Mountain photo by Edgar KelleyThe backyard of a house on 11th Street in Elkins saw water nearly reach the home on Thursday morning. Homeowners across the area were affected by highwaters...
View ArticleNorth Dakota WWII Veteran Turns 108
MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA — Ray Curtis was born on Feb. 11, 1917, about two months before the United States entered World War I and a year before what became known as the Spanish Flu ravaged the nation....
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