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New Business Fuses Great Tastes With Nutrition

Steve Novotney August 18, 2016

Like it or not, you can thank the game of football for introducing Tyler Eyerman to a healthy diet and...

Wheel Help!: It’s Your Call-to-Action. Engage!

Jeremy Morris August 17, 2016

In his inaugural speech, Wheeling Mayor Glenn Elliott aptly stated, “No single Mayor, City Council member, non-profit organization, or business...

Substance Abuse Town Hall Meeting Today

Steve Novotney August 16, 2016

Although many believe little help exists within the borders of West Virginia when it comes to addressing the issues connected...

Wheeling Blues Fest Beats Heat, Rocks Rain

Glynis Board August 15, 2016

Story courtesy of Weelunk partner West Virginia Public Broadcasting Accompanying story and audio here: Listen At the 16th annual Blues...

My Town

Bill Hogan August 15, 2016

I remember when the entrance to the Riley Law Building was on Chapline Street. One went through the doors and...

Ohio County Schools: Part 4 – Free Nutrition

Steve Novotney August 14, 2016

(Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles featuring Ohio County Schools, the district’s new superintendent, and...

Do Something: Centre Market Success Story

Steve Novotney August 13, 2016

On the east side of the Centre Market a few retail businesses are intermingled with residential brownstones, and on the...

A Poem: County Road 4

Chad Burrall August 12, 2016

cold porch lights chase me thirty miles per hour downhill to the Ohio past bison in greasy fields old company...

Weelunk Weekender: How Best to Enjoy the Dog Days

Jeremy Morris August 11, 2016

As the Dog Days of Summer heat up again, Wheeling’s festivals and special events will be at a fever pitch this...

Relay For Life Relentless In Battling Cancer

Steve Novotney August 10, 2016

There’s that moment, the one all fear and never wish to experience, and it’s always followed by the question, “Am...

In the Bigs – Cheffing, Runnin’, Strummin’, & Remembering

Steve Novotney August 9, 2016

I wrote about him back in May because I’ve devoured his food for years, and I’m familiar with most of...

My Apartment

Mike Quinn August 8, 2016

I have lived in several nice homes during my life. One morning I was surfing the net, and came across these...

Bedway Molding His Career In Wheeling

Steve Novotney August 7, 2016

He’s always known he needs to work with his hands to create something because that’s what he’s always done since...

Ohio County Schools: Part 3 – Football & T.W.B.A.I

Steve Novotney August 6, 2016

(Editor’s Note: This is the third story in a series of articles featuring Ohio County Schools, the district’s new superintendent,...

The Weelunk Weekender: Weelunk Blonde is Back

Jeremy Morris August 5, 2016

This weekend Friday is the night! Find plenty to do across the Friendly City. It’s First Friday! First Fridays, presented...

Wheeler’s BluesFest Dream Keeps Coming True

Steve Novotney August 5, 2016

He caught himself and then he cured himself. Bruce Wheeler was unemployed, painting his own house in the Woodsdale neighborhood...

Ohio County Schools: Where I Grew Up

Brian Cook, Ed. D. August 4, 2016

Sometimes people walk into your life and turn right around and walk away out of your life. However, there are...

Mayor Elliott Announces Committees on Housing, Volunteerism

Allison Skibo August 4, 2016

During the August 2 City Council meeting, Mayor Glenn Elliott discussed the remaining ad hoc committees that he introduced on...

Celebrate Youth Festival a YSS Tradition

Steve Novotney August 3, 2016

For the eighth consecutive year Youth Services System will collect more than 60 local businesses and service organizations this Thursday...

“Coach” Sam Andy: 1940 – 2016

Steve Novotney August 2, 2016

He fought for what he believed in whether he was a coach, a teacher, a member of the Ohio County...

Do Something: Simple. Craft. Beer.

Jeremy Larance August 1, 2016

Hunter S. Thompson once claimed that an old Celtic adage, “Good people drink good beer, “ is just as true...

Resurrection Cometh for Mt. Carmel Monastery

Steve Novotney July 31, 2016

They chose an existence behind towering walls, a spiked, steel grille, and solitary prayer and absolute poverty while living away...

An Idea for a Better Wheeling

Seth Distefano July 30, 2016

Creating a better future for Wheeling through a State Earned Income Tax Credit When you look around Wheeling, the signs...

Do Something: Mountain Bike Trail

Charles Griffith July 29, 2016

Oglebay is excited to announce that phase I of the new Mountain Bike Trails is now open. Nearly three miles...

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,...

Do Something: Community Fitness Challenge

Alyson Hurley July 28, 2016

Liberty Distributors President Mark Peluchette is named winner of inaugural ‘Community Fitness Challenge for Executives’   Naming an overall winner...

Grow OV Partners with Wheeling Health Right

Steve Novotney July 27, 2016

As soon as a vegetable is picked from its vine, it begins to lose nutritional value, and those foods are...

McConnaughy Returns to CCHS Baseball Program

Steve Novotney July 26, 2016

Administrators at Central Catholic High School have appointed Bo McConnaughy as head baseball coach of the Maroon Knights for the...

In The Bigs – LGBT, 12th Street, the Blues

Steve Novotney July 26, 2016

It’s a little different in Wheeling. Ten cities in West Virginia have councils that have dared to establish protection for...

Wheeling Jesuit Group Provides Flood Relief In Clendenin

Kelly Klubert July 25, 2016

Twenty-seven Wheeling Jesuit University students, faculty and alumni spent Wednesday, July 13, helping two families in Clendenin, W.Va., begin to...

Only in Wheeling: Through the Fog

Steve Criniti July 24, 2016

As I pull my car through the sharp, blind turn on this empty winding road, I am met by a...

Ohio County Schools – Part 1 – A New Direction

Steve Novotney July 23, 2016

(Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles featuring Ohio County Schools, the district’s new superintendent, and...

Weelunk Weekender

Jeremy Morris July 22, 2016

Yes! It’s gonna a be a hot one.  It wouldn’t be Italian Festival without a lot of humidity and a...

Wheeling Area Infrastructure a DOH Priority

Steve Novotney July 22, 2016

(Cover photo provided by the Al Molnar Collection) Two of them can be renovated but one, the span in the...

The Mabel Files: Standing Up for Sightless Folks

Gerry Griffith July 21, 2016

Lizzie Goes on Wheeling TV and Stands Up for Sightless Folks Of all the remarkable things that the remarkable sightless...

Mayor Elliott Announces Committees on Retention, Industry

Allison Skibo July 20, 2016

  During the July 5, 2016, City Council meeting, Mayor Glenn Elliott discussed four new ad hoc committees to be...

Hoffman to Be Missed, Must be Replaced on Ballot

Steve Novotney July 20, 2016

She said things like this: “We strive to serve the taxpayers each and every day, and my staff and I...

1,000 Stories

Weelunk Staff July 19, 2016

Joins us in celebrating 1,000 Weelunk.com stories published since our launch on Nov. 1, 2014. That number represents 1.5 million...

In The Bigs – Sprinkling The New With Traditions

Steve Novotney July 19, 2016

Capture your first Pokemon yet? People of all ages have taken to the streets of the Upper Ohio Valley and...

Betty’s Garden Diary for July 2016

Earl Nicodemus July 18, 2016

Welcome to Betty’s Garden Diary for July, 2016! Betty’s Garden on July 14, 2016 Things are going well in Betty’s...

Monumental Effort To Move Famous Statue Under Way

Steve Novotney July 17, 2016

As a pre-teen boy in Wheeling, Court Micker found himself fascinated with everything involved with the Civil War, so that...

The Elby’s Empire: Part 7 – Could It Work Today?

Steve Novotney July 16, 2016

(Writer’s Note: This is the seventh chapter in this series of stories that will concentrate on the history of one...

West Virginia Needs Your Help

Jake Lynch July 15, 2016

Local flood response organizers are reporting an urgent need for volunteers to help with flood cleanup efforts over the next...

Weelunk Weekender

Josh Smith July 14, 2016

During mid-July in the Ohio Valley, the area is swarmed with talk about Jamboree in the Hills. It is one...

W.Va. Native Mailing Letters to Blankenship

Steve Novotney July 13, 2016

She wants him to think about it. Every single day! Don Blankenship is sitting in the Taft Correctional Institution after...

#WVStrong Living Large in State’s Flood Areas

Steve Novotney July 12, 2016

“I just saw a truck full of kayaks go down the road to the lake, and that was a great...

The Weelunk Weekly Email is Here

Weelunk Staff July 11, 2016

What the heck is Weelunk?  Some think it is strictly a facebook page, and while there is one of those,...

Local Chef Taking ‘Supermeal’ to White House

Steve Novotney July 10, 2016

She didn’t know what it was or how to cook it, but Grace Landini knew she really liked couscous at...

A Pleasant (Valley) Evening

LeeRoy July 9, 2016

It’s been another crazy week in the world.  A week that’s hard to comprehend and a week that makes us...

Prosser Legacy Soon to Be Celebrated at CCHS

Steve Novotney July 8, 2016

He was a fiery redhead, and if you were a young Wheeling kid in the 1980s, you wanted him to...