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Stifel Has Wellness Program for Older Adults

WHEELING — Oglebay Institute announded a new program that provides opportunities for older adults to try some new activities, get healthier, learn new things and get more creative, all while engaging with peers and building new friendships. The Full Life Arts & Wellness Program includes workshops in fitness/balance, theater, storytelling, visual art, technology help and health education. It meets once a week for eight weeks at the Stifel Fine Arts Center in Wheeling. Harder, a senior fitness specialist and therapeutic recreation specialist, has more than 30 years of experience ...

No Green Beer — Just Straight Shots of the Blues

WHEELING — Music lovers ready to shake off the winter blues will be able to do so in grand fashion next weekend in downtown Wheeling, when the area’s first ever Heritage Music WinterBlues Weekend delivers a full slate of the best in live blues music at the McLure House. Big names in the ...

Rollin’ Down the River

SOMEWHERE IN THE OHIO VALLEY — The inside of a food truck is roomier than one standing outside — perhaps waiting expectantly within the hug-like scent plume that only a donut fryer parked outside a coffee shop can produce — might expect. That’s a good thing. Jeremy Pasztor, owner ...

Snag a Bag Auction Supports Wheeling Symphony

WHEELING — The Wheeling Symphony Auxiliary is hosting the “Snag a Bag” auction to raise funds to support the symphony on Friday, March 25. The event will be held from 6:30-9 p.m. at the Scottish Rite Cathedral, 83-14th St., Wheeling. Forty-five new and gently used designer bags — ...

‘Heroes and Villains’ Exhibit Returns to Stifel Fine Arts Center

WHEELING — Superheroes, Super Villains and their sidekicks maintain an honored place in the imaginations of people of all ages. Their images, full of power and wonder, fill the Hart Galleries of Oglebay Institute’s Stifel Fine Arts Center during the “Heroes and Villains” art exhibit on ...

Deep Roots, High Tunnels

WELLSBURG — When Britney Hervey-Farris and her husband Charlie Farris began farming a decade ago, some things were a mystery. Big things, like how to grow crops and how to run a business. One thing was clear, however. The Hervey family has managed to work and live on the same parcel of ...