This Thanksgiving, Have The Conversation of a Lifetime Alex Panas November 23, 2022 As a platform dedicated to telling Wheeling’s story, the team here at Weelunk is familiar with what it takes to have engaging conversations with interesting people and turn them into meaningful stories. Jonatha...
Local Photographer Shares Her Tips For Getting The Perfect Family Photo Riley Carpenter November 21, 2022 With the holidays right around the corner, you might be wondering if the kids or your spouse will cooperate for family photos this year! We know how it can be, whether you get professional portraits taken with ...
Drag Culture Is About Family Rosemary Ketchum September 11, 2020 “You’re born naked and the rest is drag.” — Ru Paul Definition: A drag queen or king is a person, who uses drag clothing and makeup to imitate and often exaggerate female or male gender signifiers and gender...
Petition Back Story: Park Grad Says Racism Affects All Nora Edinger September 8, 2020 Editor’s note: In an ongoing commitment to discussing race and community, today’s Weelunk post offers the story behind an anti-racism petition drive organized by 2018 Wheeling Park High School grad Hinal Pujara...
BYGONE COMEBACKS: Creating an Old-Fashioned Summer With the Help of Mother Nature Megan Huff August 11, 2020 Editor’s note: Have you noticed lately that bits of the past are creeping into the present? We’re gardening more, going to drive-in movies, spending time with nature, putting jigsaw puzzles together. We are fin...
BYGONE COMEBACKS: Bakers Baking Up New Traditions Jennifer Materkoski August 3, 2020 Editor’s note: Have you noticed lately that bits of the past are creeping into the present? We’re gardening more, going to drive-in movies, spending time with nature, putting jigsaw puzzles together. We are fin...
A Letter to My Daughters in the Time of COVID-19 — (That They Should Probably Never Read) Kelly Strautmann May 2, 2020 Everything moved so fast in March. On a Monday we were saying, “You know, this has the potential to get really bad.” By the end of the week, we were all working from home and preparing to home school indefinite...
Not Her First Quarantine Christina Fisanick April 25, 2020 This is not my first quarantine. In the sweltering August heat of 1979, my family and I, along with our entire trailer park neighborhood in Moundsville, were on lockdown for two weeks. Although 14 days...
Plant a Tree for Earth Day Provided April 22, 2020 The WVU Extension Service of Ohio County and Wheeling’s Parks and Recreation Department invite the public to celebrate Earth Day and Arbor Day by planting over 100 trees throughout the City of Wheeling. This...
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...
Party On, Kids! Stacey Miller Sacco June 14, 2019 Editor’s note: In an effort to help Wheeling families navigate what’s offered here, this story presents some options for kids’ birthday parties. Be on the lookout for an upcoming story on children's summertime ...
SMILING THROUGH THE RAINDROPS Luke Hladek November 9, 2016 1 As I woke last Friday for Grandparents Day to the realization that yes, the temperature drop will, in fact, directly coincide with the buckets of rain heading into the area, I found an odd smile creep across my...
Dimmeydale Diaries Jesse Gandee November 16, 2014 5 By Jesse E. Gandee Weelunk Contributor For Halloween this year I was blessed with a painful chest cold. My neighbor, Rosetta, brought over a bowl of homemade minestrone soup. My wife and Rosetta seem to b...
