Campeti Has Been Saving Friendly City Soles For 47 YearsSteve Novotney May 15, 2015He was a little, 10-year-old boy shining shoes inside the Campeti’s shoe shop on 11th Street in downtown Wheeling in...
Q&A: Four City Council Hopefuls Share Their VisionsSteve Novotney May 10, 2015They all have lived elsewhere. Three are natives, and one is a transplanted West Virginian who has been in Wheeling...
Local Business Leader Named Entrepreneurial Success of the YearNikki Bowmar May 7, 2015Justin Seibert, president of Direct Online Marketing (DOM) in Wheeling, West Virginia is the winner of the U.S. Small Business...
Maskey Q&A: ‘There Have Been Miracles in Nepal’Steve Novotney May 3, 2015When the earth rattled under the tiny country of Nepal, Vishakha Maskey was unaware that her parents and relatives had...
Local Woman Continues To Search For Missing FatherSteve Novotney May 2, 2015It was three years ago when Julie Wurtzbacher was last in the news because of her quest of finding her...
Fahey Q&A: “I guess it’s in our DNA”Steve Novotney April 26, 2015He’s a Fahey, and you know his name. You’re familiar with it because he and several of his family members...
Snip After Snip, Scenna Still Cuts ItSteve Novotney April 24, 2015One after another. Snip by snip and cut after cut. Long hair. Short hair. Flattops. Hipster flips. He’s seen it,...
Hockey Broadcaster Has Talked His Way To WheelingSteve Novotney April 23, 2015He’s a man from Maine who has adopted the city of Wheeling while on his quest of making “The Show.”...
Sam Mason: Wheeling’s Deadliest OutlawJoe Roxby April 22, 2015When that boy grows enough ass to break his neck, they ought to hang the bastard.” Those words, once spoken...
Greer Q&A: “Writing Is The Key To My Recovery”Steve Novotney April 19, 2015Many would have surrendered. Given up. Quit. But not Chistina Fisanick Greer. For some reason, she fought back. Time after...
Szalay Finally Fills The Hole In Her LifeSteve Novotney April 18, 2015She’s always had a plan. It hasn’t always been the same plan, but her steps consistently have been in the...
Hill Q&A: “It’s Part of What Wheeling Can Be.”Steve Novotney April 12, 2015He was waiting for friends to show up at Heritage Port, and he was dressed in skin-tight, bright-white spandex pretty...
Shalvey Carves A Second Life in Friendly CitySteve Novotney April 10, 2015Wheeling was the last place D.J. Shalvey expected to find himself. He graduated from Wheeling Park High School in 2003...
Connors Q&A: “The Downtown Of Any City Is The Heart”Steve Novotney April 5, 2015She’s a believer. She’s a fighter. She’s a professional. And she’s determined. She is Joelle Connors, a business development specialist...
Ullom’s First Guitar Put Him In Tune For LifeSteve Novotney April 4, 2015He was a good boy in 1997, so his parents purchased him a Christmas present. Little did Tim Ullom’s mother...
Bethany Course: Welcome to the Real WorldRussell Dunkin April 2, 2015For many careers, an undergraduate degree is considered the minimum standard just to get in the door. But with unemployment...
Forzano Shares Alzheimer’s Experience To Educate OthersSteve Novotney April 1, 2015His mother doesn’t know him, and he doesn’t know what to think about that at times. He visits her daily,...
Fairytales Do Come True for Wheeling’s Party PrincessesMarilyn Mull March 31, 2015Little girls love fairytales, princesses, and playing dress up. I mean, it’s a girl thing. Eventually this childhood play gives...
Storch – Fluharty Q&A: Legislature’s Regular Session “Frustrating”Steve Novotney March 29, 2015They most definitely disagree with each other on occasion. But do Erikka Storch and Shawn Fluharty debate because she is...
WPHS Superiority Is Beyond DebateSteve Novotney March 22, 2015When the streak began, the personal computer had yet to be introduced to the world. The Internet did not exist...
DiCarlo’s Pizza: A Family AffairSteve Novotney March 21, 2015She can’t answer the question. She can tell you the story about how the business was started 70 years ago,...
Local Mother Turns Tragedy Into TriumphSteve Novotney March 18, 2015Her oldest child came home to Wheeling during her final spring break from West Virginia University to play video games...
Three Citizens Doing More Than SomethingSteve Novotney March 17, 2015Oh yes, people do make the difference. Gloria Delbrugge attends at least one meeting per day, most of which are...
McKinley Q & A: “Our brightest days are still ahead of us”Steve Novotney March 15, 2015Chicago. New York. Boston. San Francisco. And Wheeling? David McKinley gets a kick out of it when he is invited...
Scatterday Q&A: ‘I Had To Be Remade’Steve Novotney March 7, 2015If we can pretend for a moment that our brains are eggs-in-shells inside our heads, it would be easy to...
O’Brien, CVB Playing Key Role in WheelingSteve Novotney March 1, 2015By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com For a little more than 20 years Frank O’Brien lived every day as a well-known television...
Bailey Does Business As He Likes ItSteve Novotney February 26, 2015By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com He’s been here. Bob Bailey was born in Wheeling, and he was educated in Wheeling. Except...
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...
