WHEELING — On what might be an ordinary, wintry Monday anywhere else in downtown Wheeling, Larry Sprowls is firing up a fan deep inside a building adjacent to Heritage Port. Leather belts whir overhead and, given the motor’s 10,000 revolutions per minute, it sounds like a jet engine. It’s ...

WHEELING — If you’re a diehard baker of pecan lassies, roshkis, pizzelles or sugar cookies with elaborate icing, you might want to stop reading now. (That’s if you’re not already elbow deep in flour, eggs and baking equipment and never started reading in the first place.) For those ...

WHEELING — When a suited-and-tied Howard Gamble zipped into Artworks Around Town on a recent afternoon, he had a bag of lunch crooked in one arm and was busy both texting and rummaging for change to feed a Centre Market meter. He didn’t want a ticket. He also didn’t want COVID ...

WHEELING — Digging through sheet music left behind by the quintet of sisters who kept Cockayne Farmstead buzzing during Victorian times came to a good end. Members of Faire May band unearthed the kind of jewel that fiddle player Zac Gordon said excites “old soul” musicians. It was ...

By NORA EDINGER For the Sunday News-Register WHEELING — Hanukkah isn’t a particularly big event in Jewish life. Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah and Passover tend to get top billing. But when Lisa Shats and her family relocated to the city nearly a decade ago in search of a better work-life ...

WEST LIBERTY — West Liberty University’s Greek Life picked Philanthropy Day to deliver a gift that is sure to make a difference for the community. “Nov. 15 was World Philanthropy Day so Greek Life came together and donated $500 to their chosen cause, which was to purchase 20 full ...