KAYAKING OUR CREEKS (Part 1): Paddling With Care Laura Jackson Roberts August 8, 2018 I recently paddled Wheeling Creek for the first time. I’ve paddled other rivers like the Youghiogheny, the South Branch and the Cheat. I’ve meant to do Wheeling Creek — it was just a matter of logistics. All ou...
Oglebay – The Park That Almost Wasn’t Christina Fisanick July 25, 2018 4 Imagine Wheeling without Oglebay Park. … At one point that nightmare was nearly reality. As one of the largest self-sustaining city parks in the country, Oglebay Park rubs shoulders with just a select few...
Oglebay’s Access to the Parks Program Provides Opportunities for Togetherness Laura Jackson Roberts July 4, 2018 When we think back to our own childhoods in the Ohio Valley, we likely find our memories are inextricably intertwined with the green hills of Oglebay Park. There are many storied traditions. Some families spend...
‘Edgers’ Set for Wheeling YWCA Benefit Steve Novotney August 17, 2017 They are called, “edgers,” and yeah, there’s a reason. These people get on an elevator at the bottom of an eight-story building, and then walk through a maze of renovation to stairs that steeply lead to a sm...
Carney’s Life Path Takes Him Home Steve Novotney July 1, 2017 1 Literally, it is down on Main Street past the Eckhart House and Uncle Pete’s and Happy Goat Yoga and the Wilson Playground, and the legendary tavern has re-opened after a brief closure with new ownership in pla...
Bethlehem’s Mayor, Tim Bishop, Reflecting on Progress Steve Novotney June 25, 2017 It would have been only two years had he not been unopposed and re-elected in June. Now, it will be four years and only four years that Tim Bishop will serve as the mayor of the village of Bethlehem, a commu...
Old Alley House: A Wheeling Treasure Steve Novotney June 17, 2017 5 The property description is very trendy these days. Loft apartment, fully updated kitchen and bathroom, garage, a living space, an enclosed and shared courtyard, and bedroom walking distance from the downtow...
Why Wharton Came Home to Wheeling Steve Novotney May 26, 2017 1 He grew up here. Most of his family has always lived here. And, now, after three decades, he lives here again. Thomas Wharton, brother of long-time Ohio County Commissioner Randy Wharton, returned to Wheelin...
Hughes Design Gallery Reopening Weelunk Staff April 24, 2017 2 A Woman and her Calling If you’ve driven by the Hughes Design and Gift Gallery on National Rd. in Fulton, you’ve probably found yourself wondering about that fashionable, high-end “gift shop” tucked in among...
Historic Footbridge Alive With Memories Steve Novotney April 22, 2017 7 Once upon a long time ago the Buch & Donavan Drug Store, the Rose Bowl, the Minute Market, and Ye Olde Alpha were on one side of it, and on one the other side Wheeling College, the Pleasanton ball field and...
Baseball in Wheeling – Chapter 2 Steve Novotney April 15, 2017 2 (Editor’s Note: This introduction is the third entry of a series of stories that will focus on the history of the game of baseball in the Wheeling area.) “Belle Isle was Yankee Stadium” There we...
Recording History: Wheeling Water Works Christina Rieth April 7, 2017 2 As the AmeriCorps member for Wheeling National Heritage Area, I have been doing research on the history and architecture of the Warwood neighborhood since September. In February, an employee at the Wh...
Stobbs Shares Memories of Wheeling Downs Steve Novotney February 25, 2017 11 He was a kid whose father was very involved with the local horseracing industry and whose mother didn’t much approve of what took place at Wheeling Downs. He knew “Big Bill” Lias, and although he had heard h...
Woodsdale Students Code Robots to Victory Steve Novotney January 26, 2017 Pictured above Left to Right: Campbell Koegler, Alex Taylor, Grant Kenamond, Kathryn Prather, Max Hill Four of these five fifth graders prefer C3PO over R2D2, and they know more than most do about robot...
Journalist Finds Home, Happiness In East Wheeling Steve Novotney January 15, 2017 2 She loves, and not only her husband and their children and not just her folks and his folks and all of their friends they’ve made along a daunting path back to the city of Wheeling. Glynis Board, without fai...
Bethlehem Star Still Shines Over Wheeling Steve Novotney December 25, 2016 1 If you enjoy stories like this one and want to keep reading more positive stories about Wheeling, WV, be sure to like us on facebook here: Weelunk. It’s larger than you expect, but smaller than you...
Eckhart House Offers World Of Wheeling History Steve Novotney October 6, 2016 1 He is most informed of the years important to Wheeling’s history, and she is well versed in the classic traditions such as “High Tea” as well as proper etiquette, and together this couple molds that collective ...
Culture and Community Growing in South Wheeling Josh Smith September 26, 2016 The city of Wheeling, W.Va. has a rich and colorful history. Wheeling was home to many prosperous businesses including iron, steel, and tobacco industries. Wheeling remains a historical city today. One group pr...
Green Thumbs Up for Wheeling’s Grow Ohio Valley Steve Novotney May 18, 2016 1 It was a difficult year, 2015 was, for Grow Ohio Valley, but not because the people in the Wheeling area haven’t responded to their efforts to supply locally grown, healthful foods. The culprit, no question,...
Chef Butler Always Knows What’s Cooking in Wheeling Steve Novotney May 13, 2016 Ryan fluffs it off. “That was great catfish, dude. Wow!” “That’s what I’m here for.” “But no, really, there’s never been that taste around here ever.” “But it is now.” It is now. That’s the key. ...
Duvall’s Has Kept Me Watching For 49 Years Bill Hanna September 7, 2015 2 One of the mainstay, small, family owned businesses in Wheeling is Duvall TV and Appliance located at 1125 National Road. The place has been here (not always at its current location) since Harry Duvall founded ...
Market Area the Center Of Attention Steve Novotney August 7, 2015 Wheeling’s Centre Market has nearly two centuries worth of history behind it, but that is not what most people talk about these days. Instead, when Centre Market is mentioned in conversation, it most often i...
Cerrone’s Good Mansion Wines Offers Imported Tastes Steve Novotney August 1, 2015 It’s really all happened by chance. The acquisition of the historic L.S. Good Mansion on 14th Street in East Wheeling; making the decision that a specialty wine shop could flourish in the Friendly City; expa...
Area Business Naturally Rubs People The Right Way Steve Novotney June 12, 2015 2 “Nature Itself is the Best Physician.” That’s what the chalkboard sign outside Under the Elder Tree reads. It quotes Hippocrates, one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medical science. And...
“Young Blood” At Helm of Historic Wheeling Tool Business Glynis Board May 24, 2015 In an age of globalization and a shrinking manufacturing sector, two young men in Wheeling are hedging their bets and running with a business idea that first took off in 1854. Hand-forged tools actually took of...
DiCarlo’s Pizza: A Family Affair Steve Novotney March 21, 2015 10 She can’t answer the question. She can tell you the story about how the business was started 70 years ago, and she can recite the long listing of tasks she tackles on a daily basis, but Toni DiCarlo cannot e...
Independence Hall One Of Wheeling’s ‘Gems’ Steve Novotney March 20, 2015 1 When you take a tour of the West Virginia Independence Hall with site manager Travis Henline as your guide, you come to notice that he places a certain amount of emphasis on the word “west” each and every time ...
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 burger and beer-battered fries or walk across the new causeway to the outdoor patio overl...
Neighborhood Memories Alive In Woodsdale Steve Novotney February 7, 2015 13 By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com (Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles that will include profiles on each of Wheeling’s established neighborhoods.) This is a tough tale for me to tell...
Victorian North Wheeling, A Place to Call Home Angela Zambito Hill December 14, 2014 2 By Angela Zambito Hill Weelunk Contributor When I travel, I enjoy studying urban residential architecture and going on period home tours. Learning about the history of homes and the people that inhabited ...
Neighborhoods: Pleasanton Sharon Goudy November 22, 2014 1 By Sharon Goudy Weelunk.com Contributor Based around the small, idyllic, fictional town of Mayberry, “The Andy Griffith Show” debuted in the 1960s and remains beloved by many, with today’s TV Land showing...
Elm Grove Is Defined By Its Uniqueness Steve Novotney November 17, 2014 10 By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com (Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles that will include profiles on each of Wheeling’s established neighborhoods.) No other neighborhood in Wheeling i...
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...
Rescued Wall Hosts A Flood Of Memories Steve Novotney November 8, 2014 6 By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com For decades Wheeling’s residents and visitors have traveled past the history of the Friendly City’s flooding events, and despite the razing of the former Gene Long Community ...
