Ezra Hamilton Finds His Purpose On The StageSteve Novotney December 8, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Ezra Hamilton traveled many miles in search of a defined purpose in life. He didn’t know...
Q&A: Bob Thompson and Wheeling Native Mollie O’Brien – Joy To the WorldGlynis Board December 7, 2014 West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Weelunk.com West Virginia Public Broadcasting Wheeling-native and vocalist Mollie O’Brien joins pianist Bob...
A Focus on Wheeling From PittsburghDaniel Finsley December 6, 2014By Daniel Finsley Weelunk Contributor I moved to Pittsburgh in 1999 to attend Art School. After graduation, I intended to...
Grandmother And Granddaughter Make A Dream Become A RealityBill Hanna December 6, 2014By Bill Hanna Weelunk Contributor It all began on the beach at Sandbridge, Va., during a family vacation 15 years...
There and Wheeling AgainDerrick McKee December 5, 2014 By Derrick McKee Weelunk Contributor Four and a half years ago, I packed up my apartment on National Road...
First Fridays Making ConnectionsSteve Novotney December 5, 2014 By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com More than 30 businesses in downtown, Centre Market, East Wheeling, and North Wheeling are set...
The Growth Continues: Grow Ohio ValleySteve Novotney December 4, 2014Photographs and Story By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com A Wheeling organization has gained the support of the federal government – top Appalachian...
The Gift of DNASteve Novotney December 4, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com I’m 48 years old today, and I am a blessed man. I still have both of...
A Tour Through Clay SchoolSteve Novotney December 3, 2014Photographs and Story By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com I lived directly across the street from Clay School for three years, and...
New Resident Invites Wheeling To ConcertScott Glysson December 3, 2014By Scott Glysson Weelunk Contributor Scott is a professor at WLU and assumed the position of Director of Choral Activities...
Weelunk’s First Month In ReviewRochambeau December 2, 2014It has been a crazy month. Weelunk launched on November 1st, and right from the start you, our users, have...
When to Cancel? Dr. Dianna VargoSteve Novotney December 2, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Now that the month of December has arrived, many local parents are asking themselves the same...
WPHS Cheerleaders Trained For SuccessKayley Miller December 1, 2014By Kayley Miller Wheeling Park High School, 11th Grade Editors Note: This story first appeared on weelunk.com on December 1...
Memories Can Help Reinvent WheelingSteve Novotney December 1, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com I have an idea. It concerns Santa Claus. I don’t believe I get to see him...
Small Business Saturday RecapAllison Skibo December 1, 2014By Allison Skibo In 2010, American Express started a new holiday shopping tradition when they trademarked Small Business Saturday. The...
Confessions Of An Internet ShopperRochambeau November 30, 2014I have a guilty conscience, and Small Business Saturday has really heightened my struggle with my inner demons. You see,...
Proud “Island Rats” Living on Wheeling IslandSteve Novotney November 30, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com (Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles that will include profiles on...
Christmas Parade PerspectiveLeeRoy November 30, 2014By LeeRoy Minnette Weelunk Contributor West Liberty University Adjunct Professor Rebecca Kiger’s photography students were given the task of taking...
There’s Hope For HinesSteve Novotney November 29, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com He was draped in a couple of shirts, a hoodie, two pairs of socks, little-boy long...
Shopping Locally Keeps Important Revenue Close to HomeSteve Novotney November 29, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com It’s something that’s become more personal to me the longer I live. Call it an epiphany,...
40 Years Doing ‘Whatever It Takes’ for Abandoned Kids in WheelingGlynis Board November 29, 2014By Glynis Board West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Weelunk.com Shawna Littell: Through the Cracks “Been on my own since I...
Chief: Help Us Prevent CrimeSteve Novotney November 29, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com If Wheeling residents wish to continue living in one of the safest cities in America, picking...
Shop Local on Small Business SaturdayJoelle Connors November 28, 2014Photographs and story by Joelle Connors Regional Economic Development Partnership Few words signal the start of the holiday shopping season...
[Think]Ful for Wheeling: A Grateful Pastor Gives ThanksAdam Mick November 27, 2014Thanksgiving is a favorite holiday for many. It has a treasured place not only in our bellies but in our...
Thanksgiving Eve At The AlphaJosh Wack November 26, 2014By Josh Wack Weelunk Contributor Tonight is the night. Fresh haircut, new outfit, and a year’s worth of lifestyle and...
Injustice To One Is An Injustice to AllOwens Brown November 26, 2014By Owens Brown Weelunk Contributor Wheeling NAACP Board Member “The National NAACP stands with citizens and communities who are deeply...
Smoking Bans In Private Businesses Should Be Up To The OwnersSteve Novotney November 26, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Editors’ Note: This is maybe a good time to remind readers that Weelunk doesn’t hold opinions....
1100 Block Returns To RootsSteve Novotney November 25, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Officials of the city of Wheeling spent two years guiding tours of the vacant, dilapidated buildings...
Developers Should Continue Avoiding Duplication Of ‘Destination Locations’Steve Novotney November 25, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Primanti’s opened at The Highlands more than a week ago, and Chipotle is expected to begin...
Big-Picture Consideration Necessary in WheelingSteve Novotney November 24, 2014 By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com The government of Wheeling, W.Va., has a lot to accomplish despite more than a decade...
Grisham’s New Novel is a Major DisappointmentBill Hanna November 24, 2014By Bill Hanna Weelunk Contributor John Grisham’s first legal thriller, “A Time to Kill,” was published all the way...
The Legends of Roney’s Point ExaminedSteve Novotney November 23, 2014Story and Photography By Steve Novotney There was zero political correctness involved when I was first told the tales of...
Wheeling Playwright Brings Us Dickens’ Ebenezer ScroogeJeremy Richter November 23, 2014By Jeremy Richter Weelunk Contributor I’m not much of a “plan ahead” type guy. Not anymore. I prefer more...
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...
I Moved Back to Wheeling: And My Kids Joined a GangErika Weidner November 22, 2014By Erika Weidner Weelunk Contributor “You’re moving where?” That’s the question we received from Baltimore friends and coworkers when...
Neighborhoods: PleasantonSharon Goudy November 22, 2014By Sharon Goudy Weelunk.com Contributor Based around the small, idyllic, fictional town of Mayberry, “The Andy Griffith Show” debuted in...
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...
Weelunker Derrick McKee Reviews the VagabondDerrick McKee November 21, 2014One More Final Friday By Derrick McKee Weelunk Contributor I’m a big fan of knowing exactly when a certain event...
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...
Dr. Christina Sampson, An Educator’s EducatorKeely Camden November 20, 2014By Keely Camden Weelunk Contributor My freshman year of college, I heard through the student grapevine that she was the...
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...
Words & Music Offers Unique Shopping OpportunityBill Hanna November 19, 2014By Bill Hanna Weelunk Contributor Crunch time for Christmas shoppers has arrived, and for many that may mean tromping through...
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...
DEP Official: Radiation Levels in Local Fracking Waste SafeAshton Marra November 19, 2014By Ashton Marra West Virginia Public Radio and Weelunk.com Listen to the story here: WVPublicBroadcasting State lawmakers were updated Monday...
Urgent Message Regarding the Winter Freeze ShelterWeelunk Staff November 18, 2014With the crushing appearance of January temperatures in November, Youth Services System is opening the Winter Freeze Shelter at its...
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...
Does WV Need a New Political Party?Chuck Wood November 18, 2014 By Chuck Wood Weelunk.com Contributor During the 2014 mid-term election there were many different individuals running for office in...
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...
