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If You Rebuild It…

By NORA EDINGER For the Sunday News-Register WHEELING — It’s cold and raining-snowing, and there’s nothing remotely cozy inside 722 and 724 Main Street. There’s only the steel beams that are keeping the walls from caving in and the bit of rubble that remains on the floor after both units of this 1846 duplex were gutted. There’s also mystery enough, however, that Wheeling historian Jeanne Finstein has scrambled down the steep drop from one front door. She wants a closer look at an earlier foundation that ongoing restoration work coordinated by the Friends of Wheeling recently ...

Home Cooking: Good for the Soul

By NORA EDINGER For the Sunday News-Register WHEELING — There are a lot of ways Jeramie Alvarado’s story could be told. There’s the cultural angle for one thing. Alvarado and wife Rachel (Williams) Alvarado are business owners whose combined heritage includes Hispanic, Native ...

Go Big and Go Home

WHEELING — There’s only so much brick wall a body can take. This is something Michael Kreuger Jr. discovered over the summer, when he was methodically painting — one side at a time — the South Wheeling Victorian his family has called home for generations. Kreuger — a preservation ...

A Band of Sisters

WHEELING — Life’s pieces can be fitting into place. The job. The house. The school for the kids. But, as anyone who’s ever made a fresh start in a new city knows, the absence of local friends who’ve got your back can be painful. “When I came here, Hank knew so many people ...

Take This Crash Course in Sweet Potato Pie 101

WHEELING — It was a case of one grandma and four stair-step granddaughters under foot. “She always had us in the kitchen making sure we knew how to cook,” said Stephanie Nevels Stradwick of Wheeling, one of the sisters. Stradwick, who will be rolling out a Thanksgiving buffet to end ...

Move Afoot To Rescue OVMC Artifacts

WHEELING — The skeleton is accounted for. The remains of a teen girl — possibly born around the time of the Civil War — were retrieved from the already shuttered School of Nursing as Ohio Valley Medical Center itself ceased operations in late 2019. Within weeks of the abrupt closure, ...