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The hand-painted flowers that decorated downtown Elkins for the Sprout into Spring event on March 20 will be offered for sale later this month.
ELKINS The 90-plus hand-painted flowers that brightened up downtown Elkins during the Sprout into Spring event on March 20 and beyond will be going up for sale this month.
The designers of each flower will have the first opportunity to purchase their design for a $10 donation on Saturday, April 17 at 11 a.m.
The sales will take place in two downtown locations in front of Davis Trust Company Bank on Davis Avenue, and in front of the former Henry G’s Cafe on Third Street.
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ELKINS One of the main roads through downtown will be closed today through Friday, Elkins officials said.
S. Davis Avenue, between First and 11th Streets, will be closing at 7 a.m. today and will remain closed through Friday. Local traffic only will be permitted southbound to 10th Street.
“It is related to the sewer/stormwater separation project,” a city official told The Inter-Mountain Monday afternoon.
As part of Phase II of the sewer/stormwater project, crews will eventually excavate sections of 15 city streets and alleys in the neighborhood west of Wimer Field to install new, dedicated stormwater lines and related infrastructure components, including manholes and catch basins, according to information from city officials.
The general is still astride Traveller, but the state of Virginia, which holds title to the monument is determined to take him down.
Monument Avenue is a majestic boulevard, lined with lovely houses. The people who live in them are overwhelmingly white, but many houses displayed “Black Lives Matter” signs. This mansion on what is still called (Jefferson) Davis Avenue, had a huge banner hanging from the balcony.
It had a smaller sign at a side entrance.
Are these signs sincere expressions of capitulation or a cynical appeal to the mob: “Please don’t touch our lily-white Doric columns”? I fear it was the former. It was a beautiful day, and someone had hired a black gospel band to give a concert at the base of the Lee memorial. The crowd was almost entirely white, and the mood was festive. There was no menace in the air but whites still proclaimed their emasculation.