I Completed the Community Leader Internship Program, And This Is What I Learned… Adam Marquart January 25, 2023 If you’ve never heard of the Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley, their mission is “to enhance the vibrancy of the Upper Ohio Valley through meaningful charitable actions, strategic and initiative-driven i...
West Virginia’s First Trade School Was Located Right Here in Wheeling Rosemary Ketchum January 20, 2023 The very first vocational school in West Virginia was located right here in Wheeling - South Wheeling to be exact. The McKinley Trade and Vocational school first opened its doors in 1927, welcoming new stude...
Free Event Encourages Technology Careers in Wheeling Provided December 12, 2022 On Wednesday, December 14, 2022, a panel of technology professionals will discuss how they started their careers. “Paths Into Tech” attendees will learn about scholarships, educational programs, and tips and tr...
Library Announces New Program Focusing on Civic Empathy Through History Seán Duffy September 20, 2022 The Ohio County Public Library in Wheeling, WV is pleased to announce the recent installation of an extremely important new exhibit and project. Titled “Civic Empathy Through History,” the project has been crea...
You’re Bound To Love This Bookstore in Downtown Wheeling Hanna Perry September 8, 2022 Vigilant Books is an independent bookstore that is located that is temporarily located at 1900 Market St. in downtown Wheeling, W.Va. just a few doors down from the popular Hall of Fame Café. The bookstore is o...
Preserve WV AmeriCorps Positions Open in Wheeling – Weelunk’s Outgoing AmeriCorps Member Reflects on Her Experience Kate Wietor August 10, 2022 It’s bittersweet to write this, but my time in Wheeling is coming to a close. Just one year ago, I came to Wheeling to serve as an AmeriCorps member with Wheeling Heritage. I had just graduated from James Madis...
Wheeling’s Cool History of Air Conditioning Kate Wietor July 12, 2022 If you were filling out the 1960 census, you would have been asked questions about freezers, flush toilets, and air conditioning. Today, these objects seem essential to our everyday lives, but the 1960 census r...
Dinosaurs Will Roar Again at a New People’s University Series on July 21 Provided July 6, 2022 It's the summer of dinosaurs, and the Ohio County Public Library in Wheeling invites patrons to learn all about the amazing prehistoric creatures in a new eight-week People's University series. In keeping wi...
Kate Wietor to Discuss Victorian Wheeling Artifact Collection This Weekend Provided June 22, 2022 Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex in Moundsville will host a lecture presented by Kate Wietor titled “Middle Class Victorian Wheeling: Revisiting the Victorian Wheeling Collection”&nb...
This is Why Wheeling’s Juneteenth Celebration is Held at Market Plaza Kate Wietor and Betsy Sweeny June 17, 2022 This weekend, Wheeling will come together as a community to celebrate Juneteenth National Independence Day. Juneteenth, a word created from the combination of June and nineteenth, represents the day (June 19, 1...
New Program Redefines Wellness for Older Adults Jessica Broverman April 26, 2022 The Stifel Fine Arts Center is in the midst of one of its greatest programs yet. The Full Life Art and Wellness Program through Oglebay Institute is for adults over the age of 65 that want to have fun and learn...
Census Curiosity: What the 1950 Census Means for Wheeling Emma Wiley March 30, 2022 On April 1, 2022—after 72 years—the National Archives will release the 1950 census records to the general public! Even though the country already has a lot of general information and data from each census, the ...
Women Who Weld: How One Program Is Making the Trades More Accessible to All Angela Hawk March 21, 2022 As the new Director of Assessment at West Virginia Northern Community College, my job is to work with faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines to assess student learning in their programs. What knowle...
Black History Month Programs at the Ohio County Public Library Provided February 4, 2022 The Ohio County Public Library in Wheeling is offering a full slate of programs celebrating Black History Month throughout February. All of the programs are part of the library's adult series, "Lunch With Books...
Lunch With Books Winter Program Schedule Provided December 28, 2021 Lunch With Books is the Ohio County Public Library's flagship program for adult patrons. These lunchtime programs feature authors, poets, musicians, historians, and more every Tuesday at noon. Bring lunch to th...
A Brief History of the Wheeling Female College Angela Hawk October 6, 2021 The sudden closure of Ohio Valley Medical Center in 2019 came as a shock to the community. Employees scrambled to find new jobs, patients sought new doctors, and the Ohio County Library and OVMC Alumni associat...
Next People’s University Celebrates Centennial of Women’s Right to Vote Seán Duffy August 17, 2020 The Ohio County Public Library’s free six-part People’s University course, “The Struggle for Women’s Rights,” kicks off on Thursday, Aug. 20. Adult programming coordinator, Seán Duffy, provides us with a preview of each upcoming class and details on how to attend.
Tips for Remote School Success: We Are Learning Together Stacey Miller Sacco May 12, 2020 Editor’s note: We’ve been at home with our kids for over seven weeks now, and heading to the end of the school year. But, here are some tips to get you through the homestretch. No one was prepared for the ch...
Tutors, Students Back to School Together Nora Edinger February 25, 2020 If your path to job training — or re-training — crosses with a sudden need to identify a sagittal cross-section or to balance quadratic equations you haven’t seen for, cough, decades, there are those who have y...
WHEELING’S (FUL)BRIGHT WOMEN: Karen Laska’s ‘Plan A’ Ryan Norman September 2, 2019 1 Editor’s note: Three women who hail from Wheeling — Jordan Miller, Karen Laska, Morgan Harris — have been awarded Fulbright scholarships. Weelunk writer Ryan Norman corresponded with them amid their preparation...
WHEELING’S (FUL)BRIGHT WOMEN: Morgan Harris Found Refuge in Academics Ryan Norman August 27, 2019 Editor’s note: Three women who hail from Wheeling — Jordan Miller, Karen Laska, Morgan Harris — have been awarded Fulbright scholarships. Weelunk writer Ryan Norman corresponded with them amid their preparation...
WHEELING’S (FUL)BRIGHT WOMEN: Jordan Miller’s Love of Language Ryan Norman August 25, 2019 Editor’s note: Three women who hail from Wheeling — Jordan Miller, Karen Laska, Morgan Harris — have been awarded Fulbright scholarships. Weelunk writer Ryan Norman corresponded with them amid their preparation...
Wheeling University Receives Major Grant for Science Education Provided August 18, 2019 Floods, droughts, blizzards, heat waves, tornados, hurricanes, eruptions and earthquakes. Many people in the Wheeling area and across the nation have personally experienced such natural disasters in recent mont...
People’s University to Explore Wheeling’s Labor History Provided August 2, 2019 Wheeling was a hotbed of unionism throughout its industrial period. In observation of the 250th anniversary of Wheeling's founding, People’s University at the Ohio County Public Library will explore that indust...
Will Charter Schools Land in Ohio County? Nora Edinger July 12, 2019 Editor's note: As this story was in final production, the West Virginia Education Association (teachers union) launched a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of the new state law that authorizes chart...
West Liberty University Spring Commencement Set for May 4 Provided April 28, 2019 West Liberty University will graduate 371 students at its spring commencement, to be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 4, in the Academic, Sports and Recreation Complex. McKinley Congressman David B. McKinle...
Wheeling Kids Take Over: Our Guided Tour of the RNR Discovery and Learning Center Justus, Anelise and Iris Sacco April 17, 2019 Editor's note: Weelunk writer Stacey Sacco and her children enjoyed an afternoon at RNR Discovery and Learning Center, located at 436 National Road in Wheeling. The 3,800-square-foot center, owned by Chris and ...
Two Wheeling Woman Among Five WVU Students Awarded Fulbright Scholarships Provided April 16, 2019 Five West Virginia University women, including two from Wheeling, have been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to teach English abroad next year. The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s fla...
Wheeling Country Day School: Celebrating 90 Years of Learning Christina Fisanick March 22, 2019 “To empower students to think, to create, and to communicate in a nurturing environment where learning and character are paramount.” — Wheeling County Day School’s mission 1929 was an epic year in Wheeling, We...
Regional Science & Engineering Fair Continues to Strengthen STEM Education Provided February 28, 2019 On Saturday, March 9, the College of Science at West Liberty University will welcome hundreds of young students to the Regional Science & Engineering Fair, an academic competition that inspires and encourag...
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: Big Idea — The Fractional Gravity Experiment (Part 3) Robert E. Strong February 27, 2019 (Editor’s note: In the last two weeks, we read about the Big Idea (Part 1) and Big Idea (Part 2). Today, Robert E. Strong wraps things up. Did his "Big Idea" make the cut? Read on ... ) For over third of a c...
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: Big Idea — The Fractional Gravity Experiment (Part 2) Robert E. Strong February 19, 2019 (Editor's note: Last week we read about the Big Idea (Part 1). Today, Robert E. Strong recaps that article and moves on to Part 2.) As a recap from Big Idea: The Fractional Gravity Experiment (Part 1): ...
Wheeling Park Students Bound for Creativity Nora Edinger February 4, 2019 Shadows run in faint diagonal lines across the carpet in one corner of Wheeling Park High School’s sprawling media center. They show where book stacks used to be. Now, work benches with vice clamps located h...
Small Groups Doing Big Things at Linsly Chana Baker January 30, 2019 Tucked into the hillside in the Woodsdale area of Wheeling is The Linsly School. This private, college-preparatory institution is well-known for its rigorous academics and is visible in the Ohio Valley thorough...
Distinguished Honor Awarded to Linsly Headmaster Provided January 28, 2019 Justin Zimmerman, headmaster of The Linsly School in Wheeling, has been awarded a fully funded fellowship to the Klingenstein Center for Independent School Leadership’s 2019 Heads of Schools program at Teachers...
Mountain State Students Celebrate Catholic Schools Week Cassie Bendel January 27, 2019 Funny socks, volleyball games and dressing up like a firefighter. What do they all have in common? These are just some of the ways students across West Virginia will transform a cold, otherwise ordinary week of...
WCDS Students Give Warm Message to Homeless Provided January 24, 2019 Twenty-five second-graders from Wheeling Country Day School took a Martin Luther King Jr. Day field trip in frigid weather Monday to fill plastic bags with hand warmers and heartwarming messages for the homeles...
New Crayfish Discovery Honors WLU Professor Loughman Provided January 24, 2019 West Liberty University now has a unique honor thanks to some of its students and alumni from the College of Sciences. The distinction is in the form of a crustacean, named after WLU professor Dr. Zachary Lo...
New Online MBA Is Just What the Doctor Ordered Provided January 20, 2019 West Liberty University has a new online master’s degree that is just what the doctored ordered for health care professionals. The recently announced MBA tract focuses on health care management and is design...
2,700 Students, Teachers to Attend ‘Hamilton’ Performance Provided January 19, 2019 The innovative educational program that debuted at "Hamilton" on Broadway will continue in Pittsburgh’s Cultural District on Friday, Jan. 25, when over 2,700 students and teachers from 42 high schools attend th...
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: Total Lunar Eclipse — Sun, Earth, Moon Syzygy Robert E. Strong January 19, 2019 Allow me to introduce you to one of my favorite words, a word that may be new to most of my gentle readers: “syzygy.” Syzygy (pronounced: sizz-ah-gee) is the alignment in a straight line of three or more c...
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: The Golden Anniversary of the Apollo 8 Earthrise Image Robert E. Strong December 15, 2018 1 For the vast majority of the human tenure on this planet, the surface of the Earth — or very near the surface — was the sole domain of human direct first-hand experience of the universe. Other than the occasion...
WVNCC, WLU Sign Guaranteed Admission Agreement Provided October 22, 2018 West Virginia Northern Community College (WVNCC) and West Liberty University (WLU) signed a guaranteed admission agreement today, making degree completion easier for transfer students who start at WVNCC and tra...
ZOOsci What? Tom Rinkes September 8, 2018 I first met Norbert in his classroom. Norbert and I now are friends. He occasionally roams West Liberty University's Zoo Science classroom with impunity, slowing occasionally when someone gives him a pat on his...
Mary Ann Deschaine: ‘It’s a God Thing’ Chana Baker August 22, 2018 Mary Ann Deschaine is a woman of faith. She is a woman of service. She is a woman who took a leap of faith. After seven years as superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Saginaw in Michigan, Deschaine fi...
Larance Named Assistant Provost at WLU Provided August 18, 2018 Dr. Jeremy Larance has been selected as assistant provost for academic innovation and strategic planning. He began his role on July 1. “Jeremy is passionate about his new role and has been actively working o...
Job, School Connection Picks Up STEAM Nora Edinger June 29, 2018 There’s as much woo-hoo as how-to in science class this summer. At least when that science class is part of a county-wide initiative to encourage students from grades four and up to consider careers in Science,...
Wheeling Country Day School Teacher Wins Presidential Award for Excellence Provided June 29, 2018 You’d have to look way back to October 2016 to find the first announcement from Wheeling Country Day School bragging up Margie Howells as a state finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and S...
Corpus Christi School Celebrates 2018 Hall of Fame Nominees Provided June 24, 2018 1 Corpus Christi School honored five alumni and friends of CCS Saturday, June 9, in the Parish Center. The festive event was held to recognize Corpus Christi School’s most notable alumni and friends and acknowl...
WLU Business Students Successfully Segue into Career World Provided June 24, 2018 West Liberty University graduates from the Gary E. West College of Business are finding success post-graduation. For many of these May graduates, the transition into the working world is seamless.“We are please...
