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ELKINS The Randolph County Commission approved the purchase of new body armor for the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office during a meeting last week at the James F. Cain Courthouse Annex.
The Sheriff’s Office currently has armor for all of its deputies, but like so many other things, they came with an expiration date. Some of the older vests are currently outdated, so new armor was a priority, Sheriff Rob Elbon said.
“Some of my law enforcement officers and basically all of the court security officers have armor that is outdated,” Elbon said. “They each have a five-year life and after that time you need to replace them.
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Commissioners David Kesling, Mark Scott and Chris See listen to a presentation during this weekâs Randolph County Commission meeting.
ELKINS The Randolph County Commission approved a revised contract this week for creating a new county pool/splash pad project at the Elks Country Club.
The commission had applied for a U.S. Waters Grant to help with the funding for the project. That would have been a matching grant, which meant that the county would have to contribute the same amount of money it received for the project.
“We were looking at applying for a grant for $500,000 and the county was going to match that, making it a $1 million project to re-do the Elks pool and put in the splash pad,” said Commissioner David Kesling. “At the last minute when we were ready to file for the grant, we found out that the county would have to operate it in order to get the grant. And that’s something we’ve said all along tha
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ELKINS The Randolph County Commission approved nearly $28,000 in spending Thursday for upgrades and repairs to the Randolph County Courthouse and the courthouse annex during Thursday’s regular meeting.
The first item on the agenda was replacing the security cameras in both the courthouse and the annex. In the past six to nine months, both facilities ‘ cameras have stopped functioning.
“We knew that we needed to get our security coverage back in both buildings,” Randolph County Commission President Mark Scott said. “Apparently when the server died in the buildings we lost everything.”
The new camera system will also give officials the ability to easily monitor what is going on in both facilities through use of an iPad.
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ELKINS A longtime community organizer is currently scouring the area in hopes of finding a location to distribute food to families in need.
Mill Creek resident Harvey Taylor came before the Randolph County Commission in hopes of finding a place for the Feed America Food Bank to park a semi tractor-and-trailer and hand out boxes of food.
Taylor said the Food Bank has already made some distributions to county residents at the 4-H Camp in Beverly, but recent snow and rain has made the ground there unsuitable for that purpose at the present time.
“I’ve been trying to get the food back from the Food Bank and I have a lot of people in the public willing to help,” Taylor told the commission. “The problem is that we’re having trouble trying to find a place to distribute it.
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ELKINS The Randolph County Commission unanimously voted to approve the purchase of iPad tablets for the Randolph-Elkins Health Department Thursday.
The iPads will be used for on-site documentation of COVID-19 vaccinations per the state and CDC requirements.
“We were approached by the health department a few weeks ago requesting that we may be able to help them get some iPads with some of the Cares Act funding we’ve received,” Randolph County Commission President Mark Scott said during Thursday’s commission meeting. “When they do some of their vaccinations, they are sometimes now done off-site, so they need a way to be able log their input.”