Wheeling on the Forefront: Fighting Fires for Over 200 Years Alex Warren April 29, 2020 Essential. Lifesaving. Game-changers. First responders and emergency preparation in Wheeling date back to the city’s founding, and their significance to our current society is undeniable. Specifically,...
Out of the Ashes: Wheeling’s Ziegenfelder Company Stronger Than Ever Kelly Strautmann January 31, 2020 January 31, 2019. It was a bitterly cold winter day, with highs reaching only 11 degrees. Most people in Wheeling were rushing here and there to get out of the frigid cold on that Thursday morning, but soon ...
WHEELING@WORK: Fire Chief Helms Encourages Teamwork Cassie Bendel August 7, 2019 Editor’s note: Our series, “Wheeling@Work,” is an effort to provide readers with insight and information into our city government, highlighting the personalities, programs and processes at work within the City ...
Beloved Wheeling Company Receives Outpouring of Community Support Following Fire Ellen Brafford McCroskey February 2, 2019 While Ziegenfelder’s success lies primarily in icy treats, their warm hearts are clearly another major ingredient in their famous recipe. It’s said that “what goes around, comes around,” and it seems that ...
Safety Is the Issue for Building Levy Nora Edinger October 19, 2018 Whatever voters decide come Nov. 6 on $22 million of potential new and upgraded digs for city fire and police departments, one thing is indisputable. Facilities to be potentially replaced — launched in the 1950...
Creek Debris Soon to Be Cleared Steve Novotney November 1, 2017 Receiving approval to clean creeks of flooding debris is very rare, and he will admit it, but the clearing of affected waterways in Ohio County should be completed by the end of the year, according to Emergency...
Women Firefighters Earning Respect in Wheeling Steve Novotney May 29, 2017 Up and down a tall ladder with a high-rise pack on your back that weighs more than 30 pounds. Check! Then into a ventilation room before dragging a 160-pound human dummy 150 feet. Check! Check! Of c...
Chief Helms Returns to Duty After Scary Crash Steve Novotney October 28, 2016 It’s a motorcycle cruise this couple has taken for several years during the third weekend in each July simply so they can stay on the outside of the region’s single largest country music festival, but one that ...
Do Something: Friendly City Firefighters Battling Breast Cancer Steve Novotney October 11, 2016 For a sixth year in a row the Friendly City’s firefighters are orchestrating a T-shirt sale in an effort to raise funds during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The collected dollars, according to Local 12 trea...
