Staff Writer
ELKINS A new era will begin this fall for Elkins High School’s football program, as the school’s football facility will no longer be historic Wimer Stadium.
The Randolph County Board of Education voted Tuesday evening to approve a resolution enabling the county school system to enter into a lease purchase agreement with Citizens Bank of West Virginia.
According to documentation provided by county officials, the loan will provide funding for new bleachers to be built for EHS athletic programs, including football, baseball and band. As part of the bleacher project, county officials will be relocating the home of EHS football from Wimer Stadium to Elkins High School’s current location at Kennedy Drive off the Beverly Pike Five-lane.
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ELKINS Adhering to guidelines provided by the West Virginia State Board of Education, students in Randolph County will be returning to in-person learning five days per week.
The Randolph County Board of Education held a special meeting Tuesday to discuss schedule options for the month of March. However, prior to the special meeting, the West Virginia State Board of Education passed a motion requiring counties to return to five-days-per week instruction beginning no later than March 3.
Starting Monday, March 1, students will return to school full-time, according to Randolph County Schools Superintendent Debbie Schmidlen.
Schmidlen noted RCS will continue to utilize strategies already in place, including wearing masks, social distancing, hand washing and utilizing Plexiglas.
Staff Writer
ELKINS Many students and parents were surprised when they learned, via an early morning phone message from Randolph County Schools, that Friday would be a Remote Learning Day at Elkins High School.
The phone message stated that classes would be operating remotely due to a staffing shortage at the school. Immediately, concerns rose about COVID-19 causing the change but vaccinating against the virus was actually the reason.
“We just didn’t have enough substitute teachers to staff the building today,” said Randolph County Assistant Superintendent Joseph Arbogast. “We had some of our regular teachers off work and there just wasn’t enough subs to fill in.”