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Fourth in a Flash: Three Quick Ways To Add Sparkle At A Holiday Picnic

WHEELING — If more than a year of dining COVIDly has left your skills at cooking for the masses rusty, here are a trio of recipes from the Wheeling Newspapers’ test kitchen that will help you face all manner of picnickers on the coming holiday. And, do it quickly. Seriously. A note ...

Who Gets Custody of the Dog?

NEW YORK (AP) — In the eyes of the law, pets are property when it comes to divorce, but new ways of working out custody of the dog, cat or parrot have sprung up with special mediators and “petnups” to avoid disputes. Alaska, California and Illinois are among states that have enacted ...

Workforce 2021: Gen Z Is Diving In

WHEELING — With the fallout of COVID leaving an abundance of essential jobs open, area teens are dipping their toes into an employment pool that is suddenly larger than the park positions where generations of Wheeling youth have paid their entry-level dues. Food service and retail, in ...

A Poet’s Life

WHEELING — Marc Harshman’s day unfolds in pretty much the way one might hope that the poet laureate of West Virginia’s would. There’s early morning correspondence and editing done in a sun-drenched study at the top of his Wheeling home. There are afternoon writing sessions in a ...

London School Fights COVID Fallout With Laptops, Bean Bags

LONDON (AP) — Nik Geraj’s voice fills with pain as he talks about how he struggled to help his daughter study during the coronavirus lockdowns that shut her school for more than four months over the past year. Before the pandemic, 6-year-old Mia was doing well. But she had a hard time ...