WHEELING — What’s happening in the skies over Wheeling-Ohio County Airport may be critical to planes rolling up or down the runway. But, it’s the weather in one’s own backyard that can make or break a weekend cookout or gardening session. And, by “own backyard” we’re talking a ...
WHEELING — Figuring out just how many heads of cabbage it will take to make coleslaw enough for that looming graduation open house can make even seasoned home cooks start Googling “food trucks near me.” But, a family that’s been there and done that in the full-on, home-kitchen ...
WHEELING — The Wheeling girl is there. Stage left of conductor John Devlin. A homegrown note in a sea of black-garbed musicians who’ve trained all over the nation. Think Julliard, Curtis, Rice, Eastman. Violist Michelle Stack’s path to the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra — and other ...
WHEELING — The signs are subtle. There’s a neighborhood Facebook post backed up by a blurry photo, a sudden wild yipping that sounds like poodles gone mad, a canine track in the mud in a place where dogs don’t freely roam. The conclusion is less vague. “There’s definitely an urban coyote population,” said Thomas Pratt, District 1 wildlife biologist for the state Division of Natural Resources. Pratt, based in Farmington, includes all of the Northern Panhandle in his 12-county region. There’s not a ton of the animals, though. The DNR estimates about 11,000 coyotes ...
By NORA EDINGER For the Sunday News-Register WHEELING — There are gardeners and there are plantsmen. Larry Helgerman moved from the first category to the second quite some time ago. Part of the intensification involved meeting a daylily specialist who was a neighbor in the Pittsburgh ...
By NORA EDINGER For the Sunday News-Register WHEELING — While many Wheeling residents have seen one of artist Anne Hazlett Foreman’s murals somewhere in the city — and a substantial percentage have something smaller that she painted hanging on a household wall — few know the story ...
