Mabel Files: Wheeling’s Bonnie and Clyde

Gerry Griffith March 9, 2015

By Gerry Griffith Weelunk Contibutor   Wheeling Couple’s Bloody Crime Spree Keeps the Minns Confectionary Crew Buzzing When Tom Minns...

Little Ships and Big Ships

Bill Hogan March 8, 2015

I started in the securities brokerage business in 1957 with a Cincinnati firm named Westheimer & Co. It was a...

Scatterday Q&A: ‘I Had To Be Remade’

Steve Novotney March 7, 2015

If we can pretend for a moment that our brains are eggs-in-shells inside our heads, it would be easy to...

Disaster of the Steamboat Scioto

Rich Knoblich March 7, 2015

Note: This is a fictional tale. Rich Knoblich, WV storyteller and a regular winner of the Liar Contest at the...

Hospitality The Key For Hitchman’s Hampton

Steve Novotney March 7, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com He knows every employee by name even without peering at their ever-present name tags, and he...

Through the Generations, a Legacy of Success

Derrick McKee March 6, 2015

By Derrick McKee Weelunk Contributor   As you sit at one of the high-top tables circling the bar with your...

Snow Day, a Poem

Lauren Cuff March 5, 2015

By Lauren Cuff Weelunk Contributor   Snow Day   I have coffee I keep my pajamas on I play music...

Playwrights Partner to Tell East Wheeling Tale

Steve Novotney March 4, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com This is a story about two Wheeling men in search of untold truths in an effort...

Pleasing Its Customers Drives Neely’s Grocery

Steve Novotney March 4, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Two brothers are working the counter, another one is stocking the shelves, and another is manning...

Wheeling Green Table – Health, Wealth, and the Good Life

Mary Ellen Cassidy March 3, 2015

By Mary Ellen Cassidy Weelunk Contributor   So, what is Wheeling Green Table, and what’s all this health, wealth, and...

Colby Homer and Wheeling’s Home Rental Market

Steve Novotney March 3, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com It was her father’s business, and for decades Colby Homer watched, admired, and yearned to be...

The “Mabel Files” 8: When George Met Mabel

Gerry Griffith March 2, 2015

By Gerry Griffith Weelunk Contributor Nineteen-year-old George Griffith’s shovel dug into the hard Colorado soil and created a stone-on-metal scraping...

Do Something: The 19th Annual Celtic Celebration

Derrick McKee March 1, 2015

By Derrick McKee Weelunk Contributor   Dust off your flat-cap, buy a green shirt, and iron out your fun pants...

O’Brien, CVB Playing Key Role in Wheeling

Steve Novotney March 1, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com For a little more than 20 years Frank O’Brien lived every day as a well-known television...

Only in Wheeling: “Home Invasion”

Steve Criniti March 1, 2015

By Steve Criniti Ed. Note: This is the second installment of an occasional column titled “Only in Wheeling.” The stories...

Historic Steel Building Awaiting New Era

Steve Novotney February 28, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com It’s always been there during my lifetime, and I’ve passed by it, on foot or in...

26003 Is IN Again, With Help From Magazine

Steve Novotney February 27, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com It’s Wheeling, a city with, surprisingly, only one zip code. 26003. That’s it, and these days,...

Junior League of Wheeling Celebrates 75 Years

Janet Hart February 27, 2015

A very young woman walked along the wealthy avenues of New York City in 1901 with troubling things on her...

Bailey Does Business As He Likes It

Steve Novotney February 26, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com He’s been here. Bob Bailey was born in Wheeling, and he was educated in Wheeling. Except...

‘We’re Not Looking Backward Anymore’

Steve Novotney February 25, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com He reported progress, and he reviewed the many moves made by city government along with celebrating...

McKenzie: The State of Wheeling

Steve Novotney February 24, 2015

Welcome to Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack and good afternoon. Thank you for being here today. It is my honor to continue...

Protect our Water

Bishop Ralph Dunkin February 24, 2015

Bishop Ralph W. Dunkin Weelunk Contributor   Water has always been at the heart of the Christian faith and heritage. ...

State of City Address Set for Tuesday

Steve Novotney February 23, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com For the sixth consecutive year Wheeling Mayor Andy McKenzie will present his “State of the City...

Black History Month: Wheeling Honors MLK

Margaret Brennan February 23, 2015

By Margaret Brennan Weelunk Contributor   The Community Worship Celebration honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was held on Sunday,...

Weelunk In Review

Weelunk Staff February 23, 2015

As Weelunk.com nears its four-month anniversary, we pause for reflection.  It has been an amazing journey to say the least....

Curtain Ready To Rise On 77th Extravaganza

Bill Hanna February 22, 2015

 By Bill Hanna Weelunk Contributor For the past 76 years The Linsly School has provided Wheeling residents with a night...

Turani Q & A: ‘People Drive Everything’

Steve Novotney February 22, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com He loves a lot of things, this kid from Weirton does. He loves his office building;...

The Arts and The Crofts in Wheeling

Steve Novotney February 21, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com He will take a photo of anything, from spinning steel wool inside abandoned tunnels to the...

The “Mabel Files”: Wheeling’s Underworld and Big Bill

Gerry Griffith February 21, 2015

By Gerry Griffith Weelunk Contributor   Keeping out of Harm’s Way in a Dangerous Time   “Man, don’t you know...

Maroon Knight Pride Preps for Future

Steve Novotney February 20, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com On the inside, the hallway walls remain green, and the doors are still thick, the windows...

Carenbauer’s Introduces Mountain State Brews

Erin Carenbauer Ball February 20, 2015

Editor’s Note: Weelunk is pleased to announce a partnership with Carenbauer Distributing. As you already know from this article, Carenbauer’s...

Coffield Optimistic About WALS Foundation

Steve Novotney February 19, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com She’s a scientist. She is data-driven. But Hope Coffield also is a wife, a mother of...

Defy The Cold; Fish For Trout!

Jesse Mestrovic February 18, 2015

by Jesse Mestrovic West Virginia trout-stocking is getting into full swing. It may be cold, snowing, and threatening hypothermia outside,...

Recycling Issue Comes Back Anew

Steve Novotney February 17, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Paper. Plastics. Metals. Textiles. Electronics. Composting. And glass – clear, brown, green, whatever. Almost everything can...

O’Brien Feels Rising City Pulse

Steve Novotney February 16, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com At the time Mollie O’Brien graduated from Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy in 1970, her options...

Miklas: More than Just Meat

Sarah Cuff Koegler February 15, 2015

By Sarah Koegler Weelunk Contributor My Weekly Stop I tie the dog’s leash to the railing on the stoop, help...

Morris Q&A – ‘People Love This Place’

Steve Novotney February 15, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com He walks from his North Wheeling house to his office on 14th and Main streets most...

An Echo Point Romance

Bill Hogan February 14, 2015

By Bill Hogan Weelunk Contributor Doodad and Bebe I met Mary Ann’s grandparents when I first dated her. She lived...

Avenue Eats Celebrates Second Anniversary

Steve Novotney February 14, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com They had no idea if it would work. The “build-it-and-they-will-come” phrase was truly a question for...

New Generation Of Italians Call Wheeling Home

Katrina Mosman February 13, 2015

As they boarded the flight, originally from Rome now departing New York for Pittsburgh, she asked her father why the...

WPHS Celebrates Black History Month

Gabriel Wells February 13, 2015

Wheeling Park High School is celebrating Black History Month in “Signature” fashion. Anne Thomas, Wheeling High School’s first African American...

Carenbauers Have Poured Their Lives Into Business

Steve Novotney February 12, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com As the story often goes, the first generation of a business builds the business, and the...

Festival And Playground Set for the ‘Show’

Steve Novotney February 11, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com (Editor’s Note: This is the second of two stories profiling the participants scheduled for this week’s...

Local Marketing Firm Brings California Ideas Home

Derrick McKee February 11, 2015

By Derrick McKee Weelunk Contributor The clock was inching ever so slowly toward quitting time on a beautiful Friday in...

Recycling And Brewing Set For ‘Show Of Hands’

Steve Novotney February 10, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com (Editor’s Note: This is the first of two stories profiling the participants scheduled for this week’s...

McKees Find Harmony In Wheeling

Steve Novotney February 9, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com They turned to science. Algorithms and crap like that. The stuff that originated with the real-life matchmakers...

Missy Ashmore: It’s Big Picture Time

Steve Novotney February 8, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com She doesn’t recall a conversation with her parents about a life in Wheeling following her education,...

The “Mabel Files”: The Loss of a Jazz Giant – Wheeling’s Chu Berry

Gerry Griffith February 8, 2015

By Gerry Griffith Weelunk Contributor The Minns Confectionary Feels the Loss of a Jazz Giant – Wheeling’s Chu Berry Chris...

Neighborhood Memories Alive In Woodsdale

Steve Novotney February 7, 2015

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com (Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles that will include profiles on...

Only in Wheeling: “Take My Truck”

Steve Criniti February 7, 2015

By Steve Criniti  Weelunk Contributor (Note: This is the first installment of an occasional column titled “Only in Wheeling.” The...