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Broadway Is Back With ‘The Music Man’

WHEELING – There's trouble in River City when a fast-talking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian. Meredith Willson's six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy “The Music Man” follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, ...

Broadway Parody ‘Spamilton’ Takes Capitol Theatre Stage

WHEELING – Created by Gerard Alessandrini, the comic mastermind behind the long-running hit “Forbidden Broadway,” and performed by a versatile cast of eight, “Spamilton: An American Parody” is a side-splitting new musical parody. It is a crash course of everyone's favorite ...

WEST LIBERTY — West Liberty University’s Nutting Gallery will present “Interlaced: Making, Material, Process in Appalachia,” a group exhibition featuring the work of West Virginia-based craft artists, from Oct. 7 through Nov. 5. An opening reception will be held from 5:30-7 p.m. ...

Fort Henry Chapter Inducts New Members, Installs Officers

WHEELING – At its fall meeting on Sept. 26, the Fort Henry Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, inducted three new members: William L. Brubaker of Wheeling, Robert T. Crow of Shadyside and Thomas L. Dorey of Paden City. West Virginia Society president Mark A. LaFrance installed the ...

Wheeling Newcomers Meeting Set

WHEELING – This month’s Wheeling Newcomers meeting will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, at Generations Restaurant, 338 National Road in Wheeling. The program is a Fall Fashion Show with the help of local women’s clothing store, Ash & Tin Boutique, which is located at 2244 Market St., Wheeling. The meal begins with a fresh garden salad, with choice of dressing, and warm rolls. The chef will prepare pork loin with apple compote, succotash and scalloped potatoes. Dessert is a sugar dusted chocolate chip brownie. The alternate meal is the Generations salad with chilled ...

Program Features ‘No Place Like (Nursing) Home’

WHEELING – The Ohio County Public Library's next Lunch With Books program will feature guest Paul Tedesco with “There is No Place Like (Nursing) Home.” The program will take place at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at the library in downtown Wheeling. Tedesco proudly hails from East Wheeling. One day, his mother moved into a nursing home. On another, she died there. What happened in between changed his life. “There’s No Place Like (Nursing) Home: Stories of Dementia, Dying, and Peeing on the Christmas Tree,” is a book for all the Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers across the country ...