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Urban Homesteader

WHEELING — For culinary entrepreneur Jared Stone, South Wheeling was and still is all about the house. It started in 2014. He was fresh out of college and he and a friend were bicycling the neighborhood to admire the Victorian architecture in what has since been designated a National ...

Everywhere a Chick, Chick

WEST LIBERTY — It’s 28 degrees, dusk is looming and the wind is whipping viciously across the pasture. But, the chickens are murmuring with excitement. It’s feeding time and they are suddenly a sea of russet feathers around farmer Eric Blend’s feet. He’s got the locally milled mix ...

Ann Thomas Memorial Lecture To Host Michelle Duster

WHEELING — The Ohio County Public Library’s Ann Thomas Memorial Lecture will welcome acclaimed author Michelle Duster Tuesday in the library’s auditorium. A public speaker, historian, professor and champion of racial and gender equality, Duster is the great-granddaughter of civil rights ...

SWEET SUCCESS

WHEELING — The allure of a candy composed of an improbably-edible, Styrofoam-like shell and tiny “beads” too hard for the tongue to fully discern as sweet is hard to put into words. But, if you ever let a satellite disk dissolve to nothingness in your mouth when you were ...

Music Man

WHEELING — A recording studio with a vibe that pairs Ikea-like simplicity with a touch of lava lamp is tucked inconspicuously into one end of Jamie Peck’s rural Ohio County home. The polar opposite of a performance arena, it’s a space so quiet that Marcus the studio cat is often the ...

Unplugged Prayer

WHEELING — Deacon Doug Breiding gets it. He’s got the smart phone and the computer that’s bursting with email. Such are the tools of the trade for a man who oversees every Roman Catholic cemetery in the state. But, Breiding — whose home base is Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Wheeling — ...