Myth or Legend? The Haunting of Tunnel Green Lives On Cassie Bendel October 23, 2020 Ask anyone from Wheeling about Tunnel Green and the first thing you’ll hear is “it’s haunted.” Stories of apparitions and spooky feelings abound over the Hempfield Railroad Viaduct and Tunnel (commonly known...
LIKE NIGHT AND DAY: Financial Planner Makes Order Out of Chaos With Drifting Cassie Bendel August 31, 2020 Editor’s note: People aren't always defined by their day jobs. There are plenty who have quite fascinating second jobs or pastimes. Our series, Like Night and Day, shines the spotlight on those who are finding ...
LIKE NIGHT AND DAY: Funeral Director Finds ‘Pocket’ of Community in Roller Derby Cassie Bendel July 28, 2020 Editor’s note: People aren't always defined by their day jobs. There are plenty who have quite fascinating second jobs or pastimes. Our series, Like Night and Day, shines the spotlight on those who are finding ...
The Monastery Rebuilds: A Look Inside Mount Carmel’s Changing Walls and Beating Heart Cassie Bendel July 8, 2020 On just about every corner in Wheeling, you’ll find something that reminds you of a time that came before you. Drive around long enough and your mind will start to ask, what wonders wait behind the façade? What...
WHEELING@WORK: Prager’s Experience and 311 System Make Wheeling Homes Safer Cassie Bendel April 17, 2020 Editor’s note: Our series, “Wheeling@Work,” is an effort to provide readers with insight and information into our city government, highlighting the personalities, programs and processes at work within the City ...
Meet the ‘QuaranTEENS’: How local Young People Dealt With Pandemic, Then and Now Cassie Bendel April 10, 2020 Editor's note: At Weelunk, we’re all about keeping you connected to your community. Because that looks a little different right now, we’re bringing you ways to engage while staying safe and healthy. We hope Wee...
Moundsville at the Movies: Penitentiary a Haunting Draw for Hollywood Cassie Bendel February 17, 2020 It’s cold. Not just cold, but a bone-deep chill that wraps around you until it feels like it’s crawled inside to keep itself warm. It’s dark. The can’t-see-your-hand-in-front-of-your-face kind of dark where ...
WHEELING@WORK: Jebbia Cares for the Place We Call Home Cassie Bendel January 20, 2020 Editor’s note: Our series, “Wheeling@Work,” is an effort to provide readers with insight and information into our city government, highlighting the personalities, programs and processes at work within the City ...
WHEELING@WORK: Schwertfeger Proud To Be Home as Chief of Police Cassie Bendel December 17, 2019 Editor’s note: Our series, “Wheeling@Work,” is an effort to provide readers with insight and information into our city government, highlighting the personalities, programs and processes at work within the City ...
WHEELING@WORK: McIntyre Embraces Career Second Act as Finance Director Cassie Bendel December 3, 2019 Editor’s note: Our series, “Wheeling@Work,” is an effort to provide readers with insight and information into our city government, highlighting the personalities, programs and processes at work within the City ...
SleepOut Proves How Homelessness Can Hit Home Cassie Bendel November 16, 2019 Iam a total wimp. When it came down to it, I lasted about an hour at last week’s Wheeling SleepOut for Youth Services System Inc. Thankfully, my participation was limited to that of spectator, but the experi...
WHEELING@WORK: Delbert Striving for Council Clarity Cassie Bendel October 15, 2019 Editor’s note: Our series, “Wheeling@Work,” is an effort to provide readers with insight and information into our city government, highlighting the personalities, programs and processes at work within the City ...
WHEELING@WORK: Service, Enthusiasm Highlight Mestrovic’s Parks and Rec Role Cassie Bendel September 30, 2019
WHEELING@WORK: Love and Dedication at the Heart of Humway-Warmuth’s City Cassie Bendel September 13, 2019 Editor’s note: Our series, “Wheeling@Work,” is an effort to provide readers with insight and information into our city government, highlighting the personalities, programs and processes at work within the City ...
WHEELING@WORK: Fire Chief Helms Encourages Teamwork Cassie Bendel August 7, 2019 Editor’s note: Our series, “Wheeling@Work,” is an effort to provide readers with insight and information into our city government, highlighting the personalities, programs and processes at work within the City ...
WHEELING@WORK: Rejonis Navigates City Marketing With Style Cassie Bendel July 10, 2019 Editor’s note: Our series, “Wheeling@Work,” is an effort to provide readers with insight and information into our city government, highlighting the personalities, programs and processes at work within the City ...
Got Kids? We’ve Got 10 Ways to Beat the Summer Blahs Cassie Bendel July 1, 2019 Editor’s note: In an effort to help Wheeling families navigate what’s offered here, today's story — researched and written by an experienced mom with two young boys — presents some options to keep kids busy thi...
We Need a Mouse-Ke-Do-Over: Surviving the Worst Vacation Ever Cassie Bendel June 15, 2019 I don’t know what came over me, but I really wanted to hug that mouse. In the fall of 2013, my family took what can easily be described as the worst vacation of all time. I’m sure there are worse stories, bu...
Medicine, Money and Making it all Work: Three Stories of Working Women Cassie Bendel June 7, 2019 42 years. That’s how long it took the right for women to vote to move from constitutional amendment to law in the United States. In a nation with a relatively short history, that’s a long time. These days, w...
Children’s Museum Offers Beautiful Days in the Neighborhood Cassie Bendel June 5, 2019 1 When the days get long, Terra Crews remembers the words of Fred Rogers. "We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say, 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not...
More Than Just Fish Fridays: The Catholic Way Through Lent in 2019 Cassie Bendel March 29, 2019 Mention the word Lent, and a thousand memories come to mind for me. I remember celebrating Fat Tuesday with a King Cake as a second-grader at Mt. de Chantal. I remember feeling solemn the next day to receive as...
Mountain State Students Celebrate Catholic Schools Week Cassie Bendel January 27, 2019 Funny socks, volleyball games and dressing up like a firefighter. What do they all have in common? These are just some of the ways students across West Virginia will transform a cold, otherwise ordinary week of...
Coach Helps Fantasy in Lights Parade Swing Into Season of Miracles Cassie Bendel November 16, 2018 In the sports world, it’s not unusual to hear a certain catch, a well-orchestrated play or a come-from-behind victory referred to as a miracle. Christmas is a season for miracles. Not the kind that get a team i...
Mt. Calvary Cemetery: A Place to Remember on a Day for All Souls Cassie Bendel October 31, 2018 Meditate much on death, that you may not be too attached to this life. — St. Elizabeth Ann Seton ___________________________________ At this time of year, when the sky turns gray, the air makes you shiver, an...
More Than Just ‘Say Cheese’: Finding Magic in the Moment With Erin Yaeger Photography Cassie Bendel June 19, 2018 2 Vision is something that both limits and expands our human experience. We experience the world around us through what we see, but our perspective is always limited to what our eyes alone can take in. Erin Y...
Creating the Wheeling Feeling: How Design Helped a Mount Alumna Embrace Her Hometown Cassie Bendel May 16, 2018 1 If we were ever to learn anything from the story of the phoenix, it’s that we sometimes have to use the dust of what were to create what we’ll become. On a chilly morning last September, Vanessa Govindan sta...
