Hurricane Impacts Wheeling Native And FamilySteve Novotney October 6, 2016It was just a week ago when Christie Companion Varnado had returned to her hometown of Wheeling to celebrate with...
Eckhart House Offers World Of Wheeling HistorySteve Novotney October 6, 2016He is most informed of the years important to Wheeling’s history, and she is well versed in the classic traditions...
Charles Wishes A Return to Wheeling’s StreetsSteve Novotney October 4, 2016He’s an extremely impatient patient. He wants out. He wants to return to “his streets.” Charles Waldrum even celebrated his...
CCHS Airs Excitement Over Broadcasting HonorSteve Novotney October 2, 2016“I like broadcasting because it helps me step out of my comfort zone. It also helps me with my speech...
Paradise Treasured by Wheeling’s Wack FamilySteve Novotney September 30, 2016It’s a peaceful sanctuary that provides solitude most of the time for this retired English professor, but there are also...
Schultz ‘Top Cop’ in Mountain StateSteve Novotney September 29, 2016Wheeling Park Pool. Deep end near where the high drive once stood. Twelve-and-a-half feet of all water and, of course,...
The King and OglebaySteve Novotney September 26, 2016Arnold Palmer Recalled by Oglebay’s Randy Worls He knew it would spoil, but the child didn’t seem to care, so...
Local Film To Debut At Marquee CinemasSteve Novotney September 25, 2016Brains or muscle? Accountants or killers? Need? Or greed? All the above are involved in this 35-minute street drama, and...
Active-Shooter Training Saturday At The HighlandsSteve Novotney September 23, 2016Patrons of The Highlands in Ohio County will see some unusual sights this Saturday morning, and that is because the...
Inconvenience Small Part of Wheeling’s GrowthSteve Novotney September 23, 2016To some, the differences have been obvious. “I can tell you that when I returned to Wheeling after earning my...
WPHS Students to Become Weelunk ContributorsSteve Novotney September 21, 2016Before he accepted the assistant superintendent position with Ohio County Schools this past summer, Rick Jones served as principal of...
WVDOH Paving Way Toward ProgressSteve Novotney September 18, 2016He was being honest when he said it. “This job sometimes keeps me up at night,” admitted Gus Suwaid, the...
Local Theatre Company’s Success No MysterySteve Novotney September 17, 2016The butler has never done it although there have been more than 60 plays composed by a couple of Wheeling...
‘Third Fridays’ Concert Series Resurrects TonightSteve Novotney September 16, 2016After a month of silence a new, local arts collective will bring back the “Third Friday” concert series in big...
Koslik Peddles Her Way to Nation’s CapitalSteve Novotney September 14, 2016It rained. Ok, so it actually poured. A lot. On her. At times, in fact, the rainfall seemed to be...
Storch Reveals Experience with Recent StrokeSteve Novotney September 10, 2016She’s got this work ethic, you see, one that wakes her early but leaves her up late, and that’s because...
Duffy Home For Dream Job at Wheeling JesuitSteve Novotney September 9, 2016So there he was in the middle of Manhattan, and he was alone because he elected not to attend a...
Regatta-That-Almost-Wasn’t Makes Splash For Easter SealsSteve Novotney September 7, 2016There’s a lot more to it than just the “VROOOOM!!” The 11th Annual Wheeling Vintage Raceboat Regatta concluded this past...
Two-Month Perspective – Mayor Glenn ElliottSteve Novotney September 3, 2016People left here. By the droves, really. For years departure was the only real option for many so they could...
Vaulting Into Wheeling’s Underground HistorySteve Novotney September 2, 2016People want it to be a tunnel, and they hope it’s part of the system that they’ve heard rumors connected...
Update: Prayers Working for CharlesSteve Novotney August 31, 2016I visited with my friend Charles today and while I was there a lady referred to him as a, ‘Superhero’...
OV Jaycees Celebrating 35th AnniversarySteve Novotney August 31, 2016One community-minded organization in the Upper Ohio Valley is currently celebrating its 35th anniversary and will stage a number of...
‘Sister Robin’ – A Cold Case – Part 2Steve Novotney August 27, 2016(Editor’s Note: This is the final story in a two-part series examining the murder of Roberta Elam in Ohio County...
‘Sister Robin’ – A Cold Case – Part 1Steve Novotney August 20, 2016(Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series examining the murder of Roberta Elam in Ohio County on...
New Business Fuses Great Tastes With NutritionSteve Novotney August 18, 2016Like it or not, you can thank the game of football for introducing Tyler Eyerman to a healthy diet and...
Substance Abuse Town Hall Meeting TodaySteve Novotney August 16, 2016Although many believe little help exists within the borders of West Virginia when it comes to addressing the issues connected...
Ohio County Schools: Part 4 – Free NutritionSteve Novotney August 14, 2016(Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles featuring Ohio County Schools, the district’s new superintendent, and...
Do Something: Centre Market Success StorySteve Novotney August 13, 2016On the east side of the Centre Market a few retail businesses are intermingled with residential brownstones, and on the...
Relay For Life Relentless In Battling CancerSteve Novotney August 10, 2016There’s that moment, the one all fear and never wish to experience, and it’s always followed by the question, “Am...
In the Bigs – Cheffing, Runnin’, Strummin’, & RememberingSteve Novotney August 9, 2016I wrote about him back in May because I’ve devoured his food for years, and I’m familiar with most of...
Bedway Molding His Career In WheelingSteve Novotney August 7, 2016He’s always known he needs to work with his hands to create something because that’s what he’s always done since...
Ohio County Schools: Part 3 – Football & T.W.B.A.ISteve Novotney August 6, 2016(Editor’s Note: This is the third story in a series of articles featuring Ohio County Schools, the district’s new superintendent,...
Wheeler’s BluesFest Dream Keeps Coming TrueSteve Novotney August 5, 2016He caught himself and then he cured himself. Bruce Wheeler was unemployed, painting his own house in the Woodsdale neighborhood...
Celebrate Youth Festival a YSS TraditionSteve Novotney August 3, 2016For the eighth consecutive year Youth Services System will collect more than 60 local businesses and service organizations this Thursday...
“Coach” Sam Andy: 1940 – 2016Steve Novotney August 2, 2016He fought for what he believed in whether he was a coach, a teacher, a member of the Ohio County...
Resurrection Cometh for Mt. Carmel MonasterySteve Novotney July 31, 2016They chose an existence behind towering walls, a spiked, steel grille, and solitary prayer and absolute poverty while living away...
Ohio County Schools – Part 2 – Education ProcessSteve Novotney July 29, 2016Uniform and phone-in participation policies, the non-renewal of the former superintendent, no-shows by BOE members, tax decreases and then increases,...
Grow OV Partners with Wheeling Health RightSteve Novotney July 27, 2016As soon as a vegetable is picked from its vine, it begins to lose nutritional value, and those foods are...
McConnaughy Returns to CCHS Baseball ProgramSteve Novotney July 26, 2016Administrators at Central Catholic High School have appointed Bo McConnaughy as head baseball coach of the Maroon Knights for the...
In The Bigs – LGBT, 12th Street, the BluesSteve Novotney July 26, 2016It’s a little different in Wheeling. Ten cities in West Virginia have councils that have dared to establish protection for...
Ohio County Schools – Part 1 – A New DirectionSteve Novotney July 23, 2016(Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles featuring Ohio County Schools, the district’s new superintendent, and...
Wheeling Area Infrastructure a DOH PrioritySteve Novotney July 22, 2016(Cover photo provided by the Al Molnar Collection) Two of them can be renovated but one, the span in the...
Hoffman to Be Missed, Must be Replaced on BallotSteve Novotney July 20, 2016She said things like this: “We strive to serve the taxpayers each and every day, and my staff and I...
In The Bigs – Sprinkling The New With TraditionsSteve Novotney July 19, 2016Capture your first Pokemon yet? People of all ages have taken to the streets of the Upper Ohio Valley and...
Monumental Effort To Move Famous Statue Under WaySteve Novotney July 17, 2016As a pre-teen boy in Wheeling, Court Micker found himself fascinated with everything involved with the Civil War, so that...
The Elby’s Empire: Part 7 – Could It Work Today?Steve Novotney July 16, 2016(Writer’s Note: This is the seventh chapter in this series of stories that will concentrate on the history of one...
W.Va. Native Mailing Letters to BlankenshipSteve Novotney July 13, 2016She wants him to think about it. Every single day! Don Blankenship is sitting in the Taft Correctional Institution after...
#WVStrong Living Large in State’s Flood AreasSteve Novotney July 12, 2016“I just saw a truck full of kayaks go down the road to the lake, and that was a great...
Local Chef Taking ‘Supermeal’ to White HouseSteve Novotney July 10, 2016She didn’t know what it was or how to cook it, but Grace Landini knew she really liked couscous at...
Prosser Legacy Soon to Be Celebrated at CCHSSteve Novotney July 8, 2016He was a fiery redhead, and if you were a young Wheeling kid in the 1980s, you wanted him to...
