By DEREK REDD The Rev. Jake Steele, pastor of Christ United Methodist Church in Wheeling, sees his role as a shepherd for a community of people. Any good shepherd wants to grow the flock. And that is what Steele has been trying to do, drawing more people to the congregation and to the ...
By SHELLEY HANSON WHEELING – Vincent DeGeorge, 34, has lived and worked in a few different cities, but he decided to make Wheeling his home because of its problems and its potential. DeGeorge is director of operations for Grow Ohio Valley and is also the organization’s Wheeling Food ...
FLUSHING – Kristina Estle, 36, is a public historian, director of the Underground Railroad Museum in Flushing, assistant director at the Bellaire Public Library, president of the History Detectives of Belmont County and treasurer of the Belmont County NAACP. She has put a focus on civics ...
By DEREK REDD Maestro John Devlin, the music director and conductor of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, loves the fact that the position he holds in Wheeling exists at all. Very few communities of Wheeling’s size can claim as successful and as robust of an orchestra as the Friendly City ...
WHEELING – A gratifying career can be forged through service to people in the community who are in need, and when that effort helps those who served our country, the rewards are worthy of a salute. In 2010, Jeremy Harrison and his wife, Susan, co-founded Helping Heroes – a center for ...
By DEREK REDD Many regions of the United States have a signature sound when it comes to the hip hop music of that area. There’s a New York sound, a West Coast sound, a Miami sound, a Deep South sound. Is there a distinctive Ohio Valley hip hop sound? Maybe not yet, said local hip hop ...
