Turani Q & A: ‘People Drive Everything’Steve Novotney February 22, 2015By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com He loves a lot of things, this kid from Weirton does. He loves his office building;...
The Arts and The Crofts in WheelingSteve Novotney February 21, 2015By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com He will take a photo of anything, from spinning steel wool inside abandoned tunnels to the...
Coffield Optimistic About WALS FoundationSteve Novotney February 19, 2015By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com She’s a scientist. She is data-driven. But Hope Coffield also is a wife, a mother of...
Morris Q&A – ‘People Love This Place’Steve Novotney February 15, 2015By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com He walks from his North Wheeling house to his office on 14th and Main streets most...
New Generation Of Italians Call Wheeling HomeKatrina Mosman February 13, 2015As they boarded the flight, originally from Rome now departing New York for Pittsburgh, she asked her father why the...
Carenbauers Have Poured Their Lives Into BusinessSteve Novotney February 12, 2015By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com As the story often goes, the first generation of a business builds the business, and the...
McKees Find Harmony In WheelingSteve Novotney February 9, 2015By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com They turned to science. Algorithms and crap like that. The stuff that originated with the real-life matchmakers...
Missy Ashmore: It’s Big Picture TimeSteve Novotney February 8, 2015By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com She doesn’t recall a conversation with her parents about a life in Wheeling following her education,...
Pete Holloway Discusses City’s New MomentumSteve Novotney February 4, 2015By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com He’s heard it before. He’s seen efforts begin only to see them fizzle. He’s listened to...
Schwertfeger Q&A – ‘It’s a Safe City’Steve Novotney February 1, 2015By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com City Chicken. His mother’s City Chicken, that is. And her noodles. Shawn Schwertfeger admits Mom’s delicious...
Skibo Q&A – It’s a ‘People’ ThingSteve Novotney January 25, 2015By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Allison Skibo works in a haunted office on the third floor of the City-County Building in...
Mayor Andy McKenzie – Rebuilding the FoundationSteve Novotney January 18, 2015By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com To listen to the complete interview with Steve Novotney and Wheeling Mayor McKenzie: By the...
Beer is Back in WheelingSteve Novotney January 11, 2015By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com (Editor’s Note: To listen to Steve’s entire interview with Josh, click on the podcast link at...
Matt Welsch: A Stay At Home Vagabond?Steve Novotney January 10, 2015By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Go ahead. Ask him. “How’s life been, Chef?” Quickly, Matt Welsch will reply, “It’s been an...
Victorian North Wheeling, A Place to Call HomeAngela Zambito Hill December 14, 2014By Angela Zambito Hill Weelunk Contributor When I travel, I enjoy studying urban residential architecture and going on period home...
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...
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...
Dimmeydale DiariesJesse Gandee November 16, 2014By Jesse E. Gandee Weelunk Contributor For Halloween this year I was blessed with a painful chest cold. My neighbor,...
Q and A: Don AtkinsonSteve Novotney November 15, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com He calls it a wrecker. The rest of the world calls it a tow truck. But...
Local Educator Helps Students Create OpportunitySteve Novotney November 12, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com The future of Wheeling lies with the kids. No matter how many of today’s adults are...
Erika Donaghy: One Step at a TimeSteve Novotney November 11, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com Her passion was initiated by “Snoopy,” believe it or not, but the eye-opening experience concerned nothing...
Ron Scott, Jr: Desperation Equals OpportunitySteve Novotney November 8, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com He aspires to be a bridge. He engages and he connects, and then he guides. But...
Q&A With Shawn FluhartySteve Novotney November 5, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com The other kids made fun of him because he lived in a trailer with his mother...
Q&A With Erikka StorchSteve Novotney November 5, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com The first decision Erikka Storch made when walking into her new office as the president of...
Bruce Wheeler: Reaching New Ears and Changing AttitudesSteve Novotney November 4, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com All of a sudden Bruce Wheeler found himself unemployed in 2000, so he decided to paint...
Bill Ihlenfeld: Honored To Fight Crime In His Native CommunitySteve Novotney November 2, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com One day he’ll enter the Federal Building in downtown Wheeling through one of the garages, but...
Moondog: Wheeling’s Reluctant SuperheroSteve Novotney November 1, 2014“Why?” It’s his favorite question, and he asks it with charmingly sincere curiosity. That is why, if you see him...
Bennett McKinley: The Road to the AlleySteve Novotney October 10, 2014By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com It all started with a dog taking a leak in an alley. It was Lane 9,...