Wimer Stadium News Today

ELKINS — The Elkins High School Alumni Band will celebrate the 95th anniversary of the school’s band program during the EHS home football game against Buckh

ELKINS — Elkins High School’s football stadium will soon sport a new video scoreboard, thanks to the teamwork shown by an area bank and a local health syste

ELKINS — Many in Elkins knew him as “Super Fan.” Others referred to him as “Mr. Forest Festival.” Still others knew him as a devoted carrier of The

Staff Writer ELKINS — Mountain State Forest Festival officials are planning to have the annual Band Field Show competition this fall — although it may not take place in Elkins. On Tuesday, the Randolph County Board of Education voted to purchase new bleachers and a press box to create a new Elkins High School football field beside the school, leaving historic Wimer Stadium, where the bleachers were condemned in the summer of 2020, empty and unused. The MSFF Band Field Show has taken place ...

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...

Apr 29, 2021 Frank Wimer was a man of faith, a man of courage and a man of determination. He was a veteran of the armed services, an educator, a coach and a father — not only to his own children. He was a father figure to every student and player he taught in a classroom or on the field. Anyone lucky enough to have known Frank Wimer might well have said he was the greatest citizen Elkins ever had. It was on a grass field and/or a coal cinder track where thousands of kids learned to grow up...

Hott ELKINS — Elkins High School’s football program will see changes in its coaching staff for the 2021 season after the resignation of the head coach and three assistants. During the most recent regular Randolph County Board of Education meeting, the resignation of Elkins High School’s head football coach, Evan Hott, and three of his assistant coaches was accepted by the board. The resigning assistant coaches were Zachary Neff, Shane Richardson and Timothy Patrick. The EHS football team ...

To EHS alumni, former athletes, band members, cheer squads and all that have utilized Wimer Stadium: I have waited for someone to question the deceitful and non-transparent information and events surrounding the namesake of former Coach Frank Wimer and our football stadium. It seems to me that our Board of Education has planned to move the football stadium, permanently. Our young men and women performed remarkably well this 2020 football season under very difficult conditions. They had no home...