Breaking News

Wheeling’s Own Lorax

WHEELING — Karen Cox doesn’t just speak for the trees, she listens to them. Right now, the chair of the Municipal Tree Board said some of Wheeling’s tallest, greenest and leafiest residents are calling for help. Indeed, a recent survey the two-year-old advisory board conducted of ...

Curtain Raised on Next PNC Broadway Season in the Steel City

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust proudly continues the tradition of bringing the best of Broadway directly to Pittsburgh through the 2023-24 PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh season at the Benedum Center. The touring Broadway shows coming to Pittsburgh this coming season include ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...