Eat Locally and Seasonally All Summer Long With Grow OV Angela Hawk June 23, 2022 Last summer, as a relative newcomer to the area, I was thrilled to learn that we have a great Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) option right here in Downtown Wheeling: Grow Ohio Valley. For a reasonable upf...
Women Who Weld: How One Program Is Making the Trades More Accessible to All Angela Hawk March 21, 2022 As the new Director of Assessment at West Virginia Northern Community College, my job is to work with faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines to assess student learning in their programs. What knowle...
Why Wheeling: Isaiah Alford Angela Hawk November 2, 2021 Isaiah Alford, artist name “Keez,” has come straight from his day gig at the McClure Hotel with L&L Painting to meet me for an interview at Mugshots cafe. He apologizes for his appearance but is a good spor...
A Brief History of the Wheeling Female College Angela Hawk October 6, 2021 The sudden closure of Ohio Valley Medical Center in 2019 came as a shock to the community. Employees scrambled to find new jobs, patients sought new doctors, and the Ohio County Library and OVMC Alumni associat...
Old Becomes New: How Two Wheelingites Are Repurposing Through Renovation Angela Hawk September 29, 2021 Nearly nineteen years ago Susan Haddad began renovations on the 1869 building that would become her iconic Centre Market restaurant, Later Alligator. In May 2020, Wheeling Heritage’s Betsy Sweeny purchased the ...
How Two Local Artists Are Recycling Wheeling’s History Angela Hawk September 20, 2021 I’ve followed Wheeling mixed-media artist Robert Villamagna into his newly-constructed backyard shed. Maneuvering around some bikes, he unearths the head of a woman coal miner. She is rosy-cheeked and smiling b...
Finding Home Away from Home in Wheeling Angela Hawk August 2, 2021 I remember the moment I began thinking seriously about moving to Wheeling. It was two years ago. My husband, Bart, and I were on our annual summer trip to visit his mother who has lived in the same house in ...