Children of Wheeling Share Their Letters to Santa Emma Wiley December 25, 2020 Santa has a special message to the children of Wheeling this Christmas. Share his letter with your children and browse through the letters Santa received from our youngest Weelunk fans! Dear Children of Wheeli...
Weelunk Writers Share Their Favorite Traditions Weelunk Staff December 24, 2020 Whether you’re celebrating the holidays or enjoying the beauty of the season, winter is a time where many of us partake in special traditions with family and friends. In the spirit of the season, we asked the W...
WEEREAD: Holiday Reading for Children Anna Cipoletti December 21, 2020 A Day for Skating by Sarah Sullivan Written in simple rhyming couplets with no more than two lines to a page, Sarah Sullivan’s A Day for Skating is perfect to share with children who are just learning to r...
Polish Christmas Traditions Jennifer Materkoski December 18, 2020 By the 1890s, Wheeling had become a booming multicultural hub, as many left Southern and Eastern Europe looking for work in the area’s steel mills, coal mines and other labor industries. South Wheeling, in part...
Add This Wheeling Icon To Your Holiday Mailing List Alex Panas December 16, 2020 The holiday season is about spreading cheer, and one member of the Wheeling community could use some extra kindness this year. Charles Waldrum is known by many Wheeling natives as the bearded bicyclist who i...
The History and Tradition of Holiday Cards Miranda Tharp December 15, 2020 Many families have a tradition of sending out holiday cards every year. Whether you’re celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanza, we all love receiving holiday mail. But have you ever considered when or who sen...
Your Questions about Hanukah Answered Jessica Broverman December 12, 2020 The Jewish community is known for having many holidays, such as Passover, Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year), and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). But for me, Hanukah is the one that feels the most festive. Maybe it...
Local Letters to Santa from 1904 Emma Wiley December 11, 2020 Writing letters to Santa Claus has long been a tradition for many children who celebrate Christmas. Some send the letters in the mail, leave them by a plate of milk and cookies on Christmas Eve, or give them to...
Wheeling Mad Lib: ‘A Day in Wheeling’ Emma Wiley December 9, 2020 As the pandemic rages on and infected numbers are higher than ever, many of our beloved annual holiday practices and traditions are being reimagined and creatively changed to best protect ourselves and our comm...
WATCH: Flocking Christmas Trees with E. Black & Son Nursery Wheeling Heritage Media December 8, 2020 Flocking trees is the process of covering a live cut tree in white synthetic dust or powder (or other colors) to make it looked covered in snow. E. Black & Son Nursery is one of the last places in the Ohio ...
The Magic of Tradition at E. Black & Son Nursery Kelly Strautmann December 8, 2020 Originally posted 11-30-19. Updated 12-8-20 with new content for the holiday season. The holidays are all about traditions, and I have one that is very special. It started when I was a child and continues to...
Holiday Helpers: Giving Back to the Ohio Valley Rosemary Ketchum November 23, 2020 The holidays look quite a bit different this year. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many of the habits and routines we’ve all come to know and take for granted. Whether you’re zooming into your family Christma...
We Wish You a ’70s Christmas Ellen Brafford McCroskey June 6, 2020 Editor’s note: This week, Weelunk will pause our normally scheduled programming to highlight stories that feature Black narratives. We have chosen to take this time to amplify those voices that are so often sil...
Christmas Memories at the Mall Steve Novotney December 24, 2017 It was similar to shopping in, say, downtown Wheeling, but with two very notable exceptions. There was that roof, of course, and the warmth, too, inside those glass doors of the Ohio Valley Mall. Once it ...
Oglebay Flips the Switch to On Tonight Lindsey McGlaughlin November 9, 2017 More than 300 acres of Oglebay’s picturesque landscape will come alive with twinkling light displays on Thursday, Nov. 9 as the annual Winter Festival of Lights kicks off for the holiday season. Recognized as o...
Bethlehem Star Still Shines Over Wheeling Steve Novotney December 25, 2016 1 If you enjoy stories like this one and want to keep reading more positive stories about Wheeling, WV, be sure to like us on facebook here: Weelunk. It’s larger than you expect, but smaller than you...
‘Those People’ Have Christmas, Too Steve Novotney December 24, 2016 1 THEM. Those people. Most don’t want to see them and don’t want to know about them so they can continue denying they exist. Even on Christmas. But those “them” people are present here in the Wheeling ar...
Expats: ‘We’ll Be Home for Christmas’ Steve Novotney December 10, 2016 8 There’s something here in Wheeling that isn’t there, a draw of sorts that lures hundreds of homecomings each December and only a small part of the rationale apparently pertains to squared pizza slices or fish s...
Scrooge and Marley Maureen Zambito December 6, 2016 Charles Dickens’ beloved 1843 Christmas story will come alive this December as the West Liberty University Theatre Department presents “A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley.” Curtain time is 7:30 ...
Imperial Shops Are a Wheeling Tradition Steve Novotney December 3, 2016 5 Christmas has been, for as long as most recall, a really big deal here. Well before Oglebay Park launched the Festival of Lights in 1985, our parents were decorating our homes extravagantly with those big, m...
Symphony On Ice Returns To Wesbanco Arena Michael Hires November 28, 2016 The Wheeling Symphony’s 2016 holiday spectacular “Symphony On Ice” is Tuesday, December 6th at 7 p.m. in WesBanco Arena. This community favorite is presented by Main Street Bank and Murray Energy Corporation. ...
Centre Market Poised for Small Business Saturday Steve Novotney November 25, 2016 Shop locally? In Wheeling? Where? Didn’t that all go away when the Ohio Valley Mall opened? Like, back in the 1980s? It is true economic decline took place in the Friendly City and throughout the Up...
Santa Claus Coming To Downtown Wheeling Steve Novotney November 17, 2016 Shortly after Santa Claus rolls through the streets of downtown Wheeling this evening, it becomes about the pizza box. “After the parade is over and most of the people have left the downtown Wheeling area, m...
Special Gifts For Special People Steve Novotney December 25, 2015 2 There are some gifts that still need giving on this day, but these can only be offered through composition to place them perfectly in their lives. With good will and kind wishes the many who follow have been...
TOYS! Steve Novotney December 20, 2015 That’s right. TOYS! The red wagon, the Rubik’s Cube, the baby doll, and the Jack in the Box, and there were the Evil Knievel and G.I. Joe action figures, not to mention the board games, Atari and Nintendo an...
The Sanity Tree Brad Chambers December 15, 2015 1 "And Then 9/11 Happened" Christmas of 2001 will not make it to my “Top 10 Most Enjoyable Christmases” list. As a Navy Reservist, I had celebrated an occasional birthday while on my required annual military d...
Wheeling Christmas Parade in Photos Wallis November 23, 2015 Downtown Wheeling on Friday night evoked some of its former glory, as thousands of people thronged its sidewalks in a show of Christmas cheer. Unlike in, say, the 1950s, though, the crowds weren't in town to do...
From One ‘Show’ to Another Show Tonight Steve Novotney November 20, 2015 “This will not be the last time you hear from me,” said Carrie Eller, the owner of Under the Elder Tree Massage Therapy and Natural Body Care. “And I do love that I live and work in a community that supports lo...
That Fabulous Tree Is Talking Again! Steve Novotney December 7, 2014 3 By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Her eyes didn’t move from side to side, so you really didn’t know when IT would come. Sometimes you strolled in front of her with your folks, and other times you jumped su...
