WHEELING — The sky is happy-day blue. The grass is green. It’s enough to have any Ohio Valley grillmeister snapping those tongs in anticipation of hot nights on the deck or back patio. But, you may want to hold on there. Wheeling chef Gene Evans — with 25 years of restaurant ...
The gardening world has a tried-and-true formula for the perfect window box: a thriller, a filler and a spiller. You simply can’t go wrong with a tall red geranium amid a tranquil bed of white impatiens and cascading vines of ivy. But maybe you’re an experienced window box gardener ...
WHEELING — Now that the COVID-19 vaccines are being administered at a rapid pace in the Wheeling area, Jamie Crow, executive director of Elmhurst, The House of Friendship, an assisted living residence for older adults, is breathing a sigh of cautious relief. “Over the past year, our ...
WHEELING — On a day as fine as April can muster, buttercups are whooping it up on the rich silt left behind by winter flooding on Wheeling Island. A pileated woodpecker is chuckling somewhere in the trees, his pterodactyl-style head somehow hidden from view despite his grand ...
WHEELING — Since 2010, the Ohio County Partners in Prevention Team has recognized three Champions of Children in April as part of National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Although COVID-19 derailed last year’s awards, the team has adapted this year’s ceremony to be held remotely on the Ohio County Family Resource Network Facebook page at 2 p.m. Friday, April 23. The 2021 Deborah Doleski Allen Champion of Children Award recipients are: Margie Ball, longtime Steenrod Elementary School kindergarten teacher and Ohio County 4-H leader Jill Eddy, Youth Services System director of ...
WHEELING — The day will come when it is possible to go to school or to the grocery store without a mask, which begs an interesting question. What will happen to all these colorful scraps of fabric and elastic when COVID is contained? “Some people are going to be so excited to not wear a ...
