Breaking News

The Sights and Sounds of Spring

WHEELING – The spring season did not arrive quietly at our Ohio County homestead. Rather it showed up quite loudly with thunder, lightning and rain. Just when Mother Nature teased us with warm breezes and we thought it safe to sleep with the windows open, bam, wrong.  The seasonal thunder ...

Woman’s Club of Wheeling Installs New Officers

WHEELING – The Woman’s Club of Wheeling held its Inaugural Luncheon on April 17 at Monument Place in Wheeling. The club is part of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs and GFWC West Virginia. GFWC is an international women’s organization dedicated to community improvement by ...

Trail Partners Host Family Bicycle Ride May 3

WHEELING — Ohio Valley Trail Partners, coordinating group that holds the annual Wheeling Heritage Trail Bicycle Tour as part of Ogden Wellness Weekend and set for Sunday, May 24, Memorial Day Weekend, is offering a Family Bicycle Ride set for Sunday, May 3 on Wheeling streets. The ride is free and open to the public. Riders will get a free back pack, handy to have when riding. Riders will register at north intersection of Wheeling Center Market before the liftoff at 1 p.m. All riders must wear helmets. The group will ride city streets, and historic sites will be noticed. Riders ...

Special Library Program to Honor ‘Doc’

WHEELING – The Ohio County Public Library will celebrate the life of a longtime patron and a great and loyal friend of the Lunch With Books program, Dr. Hossein Yassini-Fard, from 5:30-7 p.m. on Thursday, April 30. “Doc” has been visiting the library and attending programs for many years. He always remembered greeted everyone with a soft-spoken “hello” or “good morning” before getting his coffee. Library staff will remember him with great fondness. Attendees can join in this celebration of a life well lived and say a fond farewell to “Doc.” There will be speakers ...

Island Crime Watch Meeting Scheduled

WHEELING – The Crime Watch/Island Community Association will meet at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 28, at New Life United Methodist church, 724 N. Front St., on Wheeling Island.

Talks Looks at Pittsburgh’s Impact on 1893 World’s Fair

WHEELING – The Ohio County Public Library's next Lunch With Books program will examine “From the Steel City to the White City” with Zachary Brodt. The program will take place at noon on Tuesday, April 28, at the library in downtown Wheeling. In “From the Steel City to the White ...