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What’s Bugging You?

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There are some things I can put up with and some things I can’t. For one, I do not cotton to bugs, especially the eight-legged kind. It’s a true phobia that I admit but deal with. Fortunately this summer, I have not spied many of the insects that bother me the most. I have been told they are waiting for cooler weather to attempt to enter my domain. In the coming months, I will be on the lookout for spiders and stink bugs. However, summertime brings its own pests. A housefly has managed to outlive its supposed lifespan and has been torturing us for days. I am determined to suck ...

Italian Festival Brings Full Slate Of Entertainment This Weekend

Out & About

WHEELING — This year the 42nd annual Undo’s Upper Ohio Valley Italian Festival kicks off today, Friday, July 25, and continues through Sunday, July 27, at Heritage Port in Wheeling. This year’s festival focus will be food, fun and family. Besides Italian foods of homemade sausage and ...

Live Music Roundup

Out & About

Friday, July 25 - Brannan & Waters, Denny’s Blue Angel, Bellaire, 6-8 p.m. - Jim Berze, Route 88 Burgers & Brew at Oglebay, Wheeling, 6-9 p.m. - Twice as Nice, Wheeling Park Amphitheater, 6-9 p.m. - The Muddle, River View Park, McMechen, 7 p.m. - Kanawha, Prima Marina, Moundsville, 7-10 p.m. - Radio Tokyo, The Mark at the Park – Sally Buffalo Park, Cadiz, 8 p.m. Saturday, July 26 - Ashley Best, Centre Market, Wheeling, noon to 2 p.m. - Screamer (reunion) with special guest Rattle Bones, Generations Restaurant & Pub, Wheeling, 7 p.m. - Strait Shooter Band, Route 40 ...

Production of ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ Opens Tonight

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MOUNDSVILLE — The Strand Theatre Preservation Society is thrilled to welcome live theater to Moundsville with its production of “The Drowsy Chaperone.” The show runs at 7 p.m. today, Friday, July 25, and Saturday, July 26; and at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 27. Winner of five Tony awards, ...

Taking Flight

Columns

I was just shy of 15 years old when I experienced my first trip in an airplane. My godmother at the time treated me to a trip to New York City and her home in Westchester County, New York. We caught the plane at the Wheeling-Ohio County Airport. It was in the summer of 1969 when commercial airlines frequented our airfield. That was a time when they rolled a pair of portable stairs to the plane and you climbed the steps without any fancy escalator or internal walkway. Having never been on a plane, I didn’t know what to expect. I just know that the takeoff was swift and I wasn’t ...