Wheeling Boutique’s “In The Hood” Shirts are A Huge Hit Ellen Brafford McCroskey February 14, 2023 You’ve probably seen them around town - plenty of folks are sporting those cute, trendy sweatshirts bearing the name of their Wheeling-area neighborhood. After all, it’s human nature to be proud of where you ca...
Wheeling Recognized Nationally for Outstanding Flag Design Provided January 9, 2023 Those of us who live in or have visited Wheeling know that it is an incredible city with plenty of character and history. Recently, Wheeling's flag has been gaining quite a bit of attention for being one of the...
Why Wheeling: The McGregor Sisters Karin Butyn January 4, 2023 I asked the McGregor sisters what they would tell someone considering a move to Wheeling. They simultaneously answered, “do it!” Sisters Ellery and Madolyn Mcgregor, 25 and 27, both originally from Pas...
Gifts of Christmas Past: Tips for Buying Secondhand Gifts for Everyone on Your List Ellery McGregor December 16, 2022 Like the several before it, this has been a bizarre, somewhat difficult, and fairly expensive year. So, to help take away a little bit of the stress that inevitably comes with the holiday season, we’ve decided ...
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 ...
The Time an Eccentric Art Collector Visited Sears Roebuck & Co. in Wheeling Kate Wietor October 18, 2022 When was the last time you had an opportunity to purchase artwork? Living in Wheeling, it’s a pretty easy thing to do. From gallery shows to student art exhibitions to craft fairs, it seems like there is always...
Loft Living Alive in Downtown District Steve Novotney April 23, 2017 6 One housed a mega-popular retail store and the other was so industrial a train traveled through it when necessary, and what took place in both buildings many years ago helped sustain the people of the Upper Ohi...
Paradise Treasured by Wheeling’s Wack Family Steve Novotney September 30, 2016 5 It’s a peaceful sanctuary that provides solitude most of the time for this retired English professor, but there are also the sounds of that rewarding, silly, raucous joy, too, along this stretch of Big Wheeling...
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...
Help The Unity Center Battle Addiction Steve Novotney December 16, 2015 She is involved because it is where life led her, and now Wheeling resident Diana Mey is doing what she can to raise awareness about a sanctuary that her family found in order to deal with the realities of addi...
There and Wheeling Again Derrick McKee December 5, 2014 1 By Derrick McKee Weelunk Contributor Four and a half years ago, I packed up my apartment on National Road in Wheeling and moved to Fairlawn, Ohio – an upscale suburb jammed between Akron and Cl...