Join The Weelunk Movement And Do SomethingSteve Novotney November 22, 2014 By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Who should contribute to Weelunk? Everyone. You, every person you know, and all the folks whom...
OV Connect Annual Lunch Provides Forum For Provocative Q&A SessionSteve Novotney November 22, 2014Wheeling Mayor Andy McKenzie, Ohio County Administrator Greg Stewart, Vice Mayor Gene Fahey, and City Manager Robert Herron interacted with...
Sales Tax or User’s Fee – Why One and Not the Other?Steve Novotney November 21, 2014 Story and Photography by Steve Novotney Weelunk.com A sales tax increase, or a User’s Fee? Those were the options examined...
Out of breath, out of the news too—black lung returnsSteve Novotney November 21, 2014Photography by Earl Dotter … www.earldotter.com By Michael Toothman Weelunk Contributor Fresh out of college, I was doing paralegal work for...
Soup Is Good Food for Homeless at YSS Winter Freeze ShelterSteve Novotney November 20, 2014(B&W photographs courtesy of Rebecca Kiger, all other photographs by Steve Novotney) By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com I make soup every...
Christmas Tree Miracle Producer Followed Her DreamsSteve Novotney November 20, 2014 By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com So she traveled 436 miles south to get away from the small-town bore. And then...
OV Connect Offers Opportunity to Engage Local LeadersSteve Novotney November 19, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Wheeling residents will have the chance to engage three city officials and one Ohio County official...
Williams Lea’s Downtown Expansion Example of New Movement in WheelingSteve Novotney November 18, 2014The Stone Center once housed the Stone & Thomas department store, a retail outlet that offered eight floors full of...
A Reporter’s MusingsSteve Novotney November 18, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com (Editor’s Note: Occasionally, some collected facts and scenarios do not make it into an article, but...
Elm Grove Is Defined By Its UniquenessSteve Novotney November 17, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com (Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles that will include profiles on...
DOH Officials Update Local Leaders on Scheduled ProjectsSteve Novotney November 17, 2014 By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com While the future of the Aetnaville Bridge has attracted the most attention from residents and...
Exactly Who Is Responsible For Snow Removal?Steve Novotney November 17, 2014 Snow Removal Ordinance Enforcement Defined By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com It’s been on the books for some time. 543.01 REMOVAL OF...
Act Now on Aetnaville BridgeSteve Novotney November 16, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Since Weelunk published an article last weekend that concerned the future of the Aetnaville Bridge, a...
Federal Flood Insurance Law Endangers Future of Friendly CitySteve Novotney November 15, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Nearly 25 percent of all property owners in Wheeling continue to navigate the new payment requirements...
Q and A: Don AtkinsonSteve Novotney November 15, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com He calls it a wrecker. The rest of the world calls it a tow truck. But...
Smithsonian Reporter Enchanted By WheelingSteve Novotney November 14, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Smithsonian Magazine reporter Tony Horwitz was in Wheeling last week while following the path taken in...
Wesbanco Arena Restaurant Generating FansSteve Novotney November 14, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com When the Wheeling Nailers face off against Orlando this evening at Wesbanco Arena, a couple of...
Wheeling Country Day’s Hofreuter-Landini Awarded Klingenstein Center FellowshipSteve Novotney November 13, 2014The Head of School at Wheeling Country Day has been awarded a fully funded fellowship to the Klingenstein Center for...
It’s Not All Coal on the RiverSteve Novotney November 12, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com As the debate concerning the transportation of fracking waste on American rivers continues, local officials confirmed...
Local Educator Helps Students Create OpportunitySteve Novotney November 12, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com The future of Wheeling lies with the kids. No matter how many of today’s adults are...
Think Of Neighbors And Family When The Weather Turns ColdSteve Novotney November 12, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com This time the marketing folks at the National Weather Service are referring to an approaching weather...
Erika Donaghy: One Step at a TimeSteve Novotney November 11, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Her passion was initiated by “Snoopy,” believe it or not, but the eye-opening experience concerned nothing...
Opening Doors and Clearing Paths: Isn’t It Time We Gave Something Back to Our Veterans?Steve Novotney November 11, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com He left for the Army’s boot camp on August 21, 2001. For 20 days he lived...
An Engaged Public Needed in County CompetitionSteve Novotney November 10, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Competition? You can bet there’s a competition between Ohio County and Belmont County. And there should...
For the Few, All It Takes Is a Show of HandsSteve Novotney November 10, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com ReInvent Wheeling will host its third “Show of Hands” program this Thursday evening in an...
Aetnaville Bridge Spans Time and Connects StatesSteve Novotney November 9, 2014(Above image by Wheeling photographer Gretchen Schneider) By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Although the demolition of the Aetnaville Bridge is...
Rescued Wall Hosts A Flood Of MemoriesSteve Novotney November 8, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com For decades Wheeling’s residents and visitors have traveled past the history of the Friendly City’s flooding...
Ron Scott, Jr: Desperation Equals OpportunitySteve Novotney November 8, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com He aspires to be a bridge. He engages and he connects, and then he guides. But...
Neighborhoods: DowntownSteve Novotney November 7, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com (Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles that will include profiles on...
Veterans Have Earned and Deserve Our Help and SupportSteve Novotney November 7, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Once upon a time, “big boys” did not cry after returning home from war. They did...
Some Children Are All Boxed InSteve Novotney November 6, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com It’s hard to believe there are homeless children here in Wheeling and in the Upper Ohio...
Q&A With Shawn FluhartySteve Novotney November 5, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com The other kids made fun of him because he lived in a trailer with his mother...
Q&A With Erikka StorchSteve Novotney November 5, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com The first decision Erikka Storch made when walking into her new office as the president of...
Hope for Change Alive in West VirginiaSteve Novotney November 5, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Now we know. We know the winners and we know the losers. We know that Rep....
Election Day 2014 Produces Surprising ResultsSteve Novotney November 5, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com While the majority of results from Tuesday’s Election Day tallied as expected in Ohio County, a...
Bruce Wheeler: Reaching New Ears and Changing AttitudesSteve Novotney November 4, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com All of a sudden Bruce Wheeler found himself unemployed in 2000, so he decided to paint...
A Ballot Breakdown For WeelunkersSteve Novotney November 4, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Citizens of Ohio County, West Virginia, will have several decisions to make this mid-term Election Day...
Wesbanco Arena Aims to Stay At The Center of Civic EntertainmentSteve Novotney November 3, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com When the Wheeling Civic Center was opened in downtown Wheeling nearly 40 years ago, it was...
Each Vote CountsSteve Novotney November 3, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com On May 29, 2012, Wheeling resident Charlie Ballouz lost his bid to become the city’s second...
The Resurrection of WheelingSteve Novotney November 2, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Although the current momentum has attracted the attention of many during the past two years, the...
Bill Ihlenfeld: Honored To Fight Crime In His Native CommunitySteve Novotney November 2, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com One day he’ll enter the Federal Building in downtown Wheeling through one of the garages, but...
Moondog: Wheeling’s Reluctant SuperheroSteve Novotney November 1, 2014“Why?” It’s his favorite question, and he asks it with charmingly sincere curiosity. That is why, if you see him...
New Blood Is Reinventing The Friendly CitySteve Novotney October 31, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Hydie Friend was convinced a transfusion was in order, and that’s exactly what the former executive...
The Hunt Is On For Housing In WheelingSteve Novotney October 30, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com The need for new housing is at a crisis level in the Friendly City. That’s the...
Much Ado About Things To DoSteve Novotney October 28, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com It was once a true statement. It might still hold true today for some. “There’s nothing...
Bennett McKinley: The Road to the AlleySteve Novotney October 10, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com It all started with a dog taking a leak in an alley. It was Lane 9,...
