By NORA EDINGER For the Sunday News-Register WHEELING — The terrazzo-floored, marble-walled lobby is quiet in a sanctuary-on-a-Monday-morning kind of way. Only two of the dozen or so aluminum-grilled windows that once bustled with an entire city’s worth of all things postal are open. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
