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Sunday Funday Concert Series Returns to Oglebay

WHEELING — Sunday Funday returns to Oglebay Park Resort on Sunday, May 31, bringing live music, family-friendly activities, and summer fun to the Oglebay Amphitheater. Presented by the Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation and Expand Energy, the free weekly concert series features an exciting ...

WSO Community Choir Concert Is Tonight

WHEELING – The Wheeling Symphony Orchestra Community Choir will perform today, Friday, May 29, at Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church in Wheeling. Show time is 7 p.m. Since its debut at the symphony's 95th anniversary celebration last May, the WSO Community Choir has been lauded as an ...

What We Celebrate This Weekend

It’s Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of the summer season. It’s time to brush off the patio furniture, clean the barbecue grill and wonder if last year’s swimsuit will fit. Seriously, while many will enjoy picnics and other fun events, including the Ogden Newspapers Wellness ...

First Communion, Wedding Veil Heirloom

Photo Provided Phyllis and Bill Ripley of Wheeling were married for 51 years before his passing in 2023. Their love and legacy continue through a cherished family tradition centered around Phyllis’ wedding veil. The veil has been worn by each of their six granddaughters for their First ...

Maintaining an Older Home

(Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles celebrating May as Historic Preservation Month) WHEELING – Maintaining any home – especially an older one – can be very expensive and time consuming. Several local options can be of help. Grants and loans are the first ways that ...

Speaker to Discuss PTSD and the Civil War Soldier

WHEELING – On Wednesday, May 27, Jeanne Cox will be the guest speaker at the Ohio Valley Civil War Roundtable meeting. As a retired nurse practitioner, Cox’s interest in Civil War history and the medical treatment of Civil War soldiers began more than 20 years ago. The focus of her recent research is the physical and mental wounds suffered by Civil War veterans' battle experiences. During the 1860s, medical officials’ evaluations of soldiers did not acknowledge mental illness issues as battle wounds. Her research explores the evidence that post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD ...