Today we continue the year in review with a shout out to our readers, followers, advocates, investors, advertisers and all-around-Weelunkers. Here are the Top Ten stories of the year from YOU, our community contributors.
Editor’s Note: This Top Ten list was compiled using Google analytics and social media engagement data.
My Town: Charley Trades in his Dice for the Stock Market
August 2017
Bill Hogan
The town was a “happening place” with well over a hundred clubs in the downtown area, many of them with live music and “chuck a luck” or other games of chance…
June 2017
Brian Thomas
“Euchre can be played anywhere with anyone. It’s a very simple game, and around here it is considered uncommon for someone to ask to be taught its rules.”
July 2017
Christina Greer
“Yet here I am sitting on my deck on a cool June morning surrounded by spring-green rolling hills, and I have never been happier.”
To a Kid from Tajikistan, ” West Virginia is Real America”
May 2017
Daniel Morgan
He comes to (WLU) from Tajikistan, a mountainous Central Asian country wedged between Afghanistan, China, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan with a population of about 9 million.
Valley Views and Varmints Series
2017
Laura Jackson Roberts
All year long Laura took us outside to wonderful places we’ve never been.
August 2017
Mike Quinn
Hilarious reflections of a Wheeling teenager working at Burger Chef on National Road.
2017
Gerry Griffith
This year Gerry, from the acclaimed “Mabel Files”, introduced the “Griffith Files” and his storytelling continues to be on of our most celebrated. Thank you Gerry!
1989 MixTape: Styling with Rax
February 2017
LeeRoy
A trip down memory lane with curly fries and a side of roast beef.
Catfish Fishing the Ohio River
January 2017
Earl Nicodemus
Fishing the Ohio River is one of the great traditions here in the West Virginia panhandle.
A Wheeling Company Changes the World
July 2017
Sarah Koegler
A Wheeling native and entrepreneur defies gravity and sends West Virginia coal to space.
