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A VIEW FROM THE MOON: Big Idea — The Fractional Gravity Experiment (Part 1)

Robert E. Strong February 12, 2019

It is always amazing to me how a single small event can alter trajectories that appear to be set firmly...

ROBERTS RUMINATES: Things That Go Click in the Night

Laura Jackson Roberts February 2, 2019

At 2:30 a.m. the other night, I pulled back the curtains beside my bed to see sheets of rain ponding...

Rescues Find Forever Homes With The Road Home Animal Project

Laura Jackson Roberts January 25, 2019

We’ve all got that friend on social media who shares photos of shelter animals. That’s how I found The Road...

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...

WSO to Welcome Music Director Candidate Silas Huff

Phyllis Sigal January 14, 2019

Editor’s note: We are changing up our WEEasked series a few times over the next several months, asking specific questions...

Wee Asked Kris Kringle AKA Robert Gaudio

Phyllis Sigal December 24, 2018

WEEasked some simple questions — and your neighbors, friends, co-workers, acquaintances, even some strangers, answered. Get to know them a...

Recovery Coach Certification Now Offered Locally

Ellen Brafford McCroskey December 12, 2018

“Transformed people transform people.” Those words coined by spiritual author Richard Rohr are the motto of the Center for Addiction...

WSO to Welcome Music Director Candidate Roger Kalia Back to Wheeling for Symphony on Ice

Phyllis Sigal November 26, 2018

Editor’s note: We are changing up our WEEasked series a few times over the next several months, asking specific questions...

WSO to Welcome Music Director Candidate Andrés Franco

Phyllis Sigal November 12, 2018

Editor’s note: We are changing up our WEEasked series a few times over the next several months, asking specific questions...

EVENTS: Dancing, Drinking, Laughing, Learning, Shopping

Weelunk Staff November 1, 2018

DANCING STARS One of the most anticipated events in the valley waltzes onto The Capitol Theatre stage at 7 p.m....

TIME TO GREEN UP: Recycling Is Tough All Over

Nora Edinger October 9, 2018

Editor’s note: As part of a continuing series, Wheeling officials recently shared the city’s recycling/garbage program may be up for...

SHOW OF HANDS: T-Shirts Up Against Detailing, Records and Pottery

Phyllis Sigal September 25, 2018

Last spring, a salty baguette trumped T-shirts, coffee and a shave. On Wednesday, the T-shirts are back and hoping to...

TIME TO GREEN UP: Mayor Says It’s Time to Make a Move on Recycling

Nora Edinger September 24, 2018

Editor’s Note: In this piece in our series on the greening up of Wheeling, Weelunk sat down with city officials...

WSO to Welcome Music Director Candidate Tim Hankewich

Phyllis Sigal September 17, 2018

Editor’s note: We are changing up our WEEasked series a few times over the next several months, asking specific questions...

Polling Project Aims to Give Safe Space for High School Students to Express Views

Provided September 2, 2018

A political polling project for high school seniors in Appalachia this month aims to respond to fears that young people...

Towngate 50th Season Dedicated to Hal O’Leary

Misty Klug August 28, 2018

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder once said, “I regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms,...

Katy Wack Not Immune to Hard Work

Laura Lynn Brown August 13, 2018

Katy Wack started to love astronomy and exploration on a grand scale when her dad took her outside in their...

Survey Asks: What Do YOU Want in Downtown Wheeling?

Provided July 17, 2018

Would you like to see an ethnic restaurant open in downtown Wheeling? If so, what kind? And what sort of...

Student Radio Plays Bring History to Life at TMS

Misty Klug June 22, 2018

Everyone loves a good story. Stories transport us to different worlds, enrich our lives, allow us to step out of...

The Autoimmune Sisterhood

Laura Jackson Roberts June 12, 2018

Autoimmune disease is on the rise in our country. In decades past, the term “autoimmune” wasn’t widely known, but today,...

Wee Asked Robert Villamagna

Phyllis Sigal June 11, 2018

WEEasked some simple questions — and your neighbors, friends, co-workers, acquaintances, maybe some strangers, answered. Get to know them a...

Growing Generations Delivers Family Dreams

Phyllis Sigal May 11, 2018

Growing Generations. That’s what they do. They make families. They turn siblings into aunts and uncles. They create grandparents. They...

Dance, Dance Dance to the Second Chance

Daniel Dorsch May 2, 2018

Let’s try again Second chances in life are all too rare. How often is a person given the chance to...

Lots of Laughs at Brooke Hills Season; Auditions Saturday

Provided April 4, 2018

The Brooke Hills Playhouse has finalized plans for their 47th summer season. According to Julia Barnhart of Wellsburg, president of...

Perils of War Real for Women, Too

Steve Novotney March 14, 2018

They come home, too, except for, of course, more than 500 of the 280,000 women who have been deployed to...

Ninth Annual State of the City Address

Glenn Elliott March 13, 2018

(Here is the full text from Mayor Glenn Elliott’s State of the City, delivered March 13, 2018, at Wheeling Island...

OVMC Auxiliary to Welcome Joan Lunden

Provided March 13, 2018

The OVMC Auxiliary will welcome award-winning journalist, bestselling author, motivational speaker, and women’s health and wellness advocate, Joan Lunden to...

West Virginia During the Civil War: A History Symposium

Provided March 8, 2018

The West Virginia Independence Hall Foundation, in partnership with Wheeling Heritage, the Wheeling Academy of Law and Science (WALS) Foundation...

A Teacher’s View on Issues

Steve Novotney February 13, 2018

He knows he does not speak for all educators and that his words do not carry the weight of 37,000...

The Patsy … (Or a Full House on the Train to Notre Dame)

Bill Hogan February 7, 2018

Back in the late ’40s and early ’50s, we would either hitchhike home from Notre Dame, or four or five...

Wheeling 2018 – Part Three

Steve Novotney January 5, 2018

(Editor’s Note: This story is the third and final of a three-part series that will examine the potential that exists...

Medical Cannabis – Part Two

Steve Novotney December 16, 2017

It was an unexpected but welcome development for many when a legislative side road was navigated to get a vote...

Krishna Gold: Part 1

Steve Novotney August 19, 2017

(Writer’s Note: This is the first in a series of stories that will concentrate on the development and history of...

The Griffith Files: A Wheeling Delivery Boy in the 1960s

Gerry Griffith August 11, 2017

Dodging Snippy Dogs and Dealing with Cranky Doltish Husbands: a Wheeling Delivery Boy in the 1960s Even with my...

A Fix for Flooding?

Steve Novotney August 5, 2017

On Sept. 17, 2004, Hurricane Ivan parked over most of the Wheeling area and dumped a little more than 10...

Stahl Enjoys Working for Wheeling

Steve Novotney July 25, 2017

He’d never done it before, Philip Stahl thought. So why not, he thought. Stahl’s first day allowed him to determine...

An Afternoon With Stobart

Brian Thomas July 23, 2017

And death shall have no dominion. Dead man naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and...

Sheriff Tom Howard Keeping His Promises

Steve Novotney June 22, 2017

Candidates running for public office usually make promises they fail to keep once their successful campaigns are complete, but Ohio...

CCHS Valedictorian Considers Future in Wheeling

Steve Novotney June 6, 2017

She owns a perspective not too many young people possess, and that’s because she fully intends to return to the...

The Tunnel Mysteries – Top Mill & Mount Wood

Steve Novotney April 28, 2017

It gets darker, cooler, and the air thins with each step toward the section of Mount Wood Tunnel that has...

Wheeling’s Playgrounds Focus for Mestrovic

Steve Novotney January 20, 2017

It’s a piece of the most important puzzle, Jesse Mestrovic realizes, and that is why this driven young man is...

City Council Unanimously Passes Nondiscrimination Amendments

Weelunk Staff December 20, 2016

After further public comment and remarks from a majority of Council, City Council voted unanimously to adopt the nondiscrimination amendments...

Presidential Election Cycle Exhausts Local Officials

Steve Novotney November 9, 2016

A few Wheeling residents officially kicked off the election cycle that finally ended yesterday in the Upper Ohio Valley when...

Betty’s Garden Diary for October

Earl Nicodemus October 3, 2016

This month’s cover picture shows Sweet Potato plants in bloom. Sweet potatoes are in the same family as Morning Glories,...

Storch Reveals Experience with Recent Stroke

Steve Novotney September 10, 2016

She’s got this work ethic, you see, one that wakes her early but leaves her up late, and that’s because...

Ohio County Schools – Part 2 – Education Process

Steve Novotney July 29, 2016

Uniform and phone-in participation policies, the non-renewal of the former superintendent, no-shows by BOE members, tax decreases and then increases,...