City Hall News: Week of August 1, 2022
There are no council, committee, board, or commission meetings this week. Overdue utility accounts must be brought up to date by Thursday to avoid shutoff.
Multiple city officials and staff members will attend the annual conference of the West Virginia Municipal League (WVML) Wednesday-Friday in Morgantown. The municipal league is an advocacy organization for West Virginia cities, and its conferences feature educational presentations on new laws and issues affecting the state’s cities.
EFD Installing Free Residential Smoke Alarms
Fires can be deadly—especially in homes that don’t have working smoke alarms. Seven times a day, someone in the United States dies in a home fire. About three out of five of these deaths occur in homes lacking smoke alarms, where residents […]
Read MoreSeparation Project Reduced Storm Water in Sewer Lines
This time last year, South Elkins was the scene of near-constant excavation work as a city contractor installed new underground pipes to carry storm water to the river. As is still the case in much of Elkins, South Elkins had no storm-water […]
Read MorePublic and Private Efforts Key to Ongoing Upswing in Elkins
As the Elkins council prepares to review progress on its 2018-2023 Strategic Plan at tonight’s meeting, officials are pleased with the amount of business activity and the levels of both private and public investment in Elkins over the last half decade. Council’s […]
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