New ‘Shawshank Redemption’ Bus Tour Takes Visitors to Filming Sites

MANSFIELD, Ohio – A new 4.5-hour guided Shawshank Bus Tour is now offered to filming sites for what IMDB ranks as the No. 1 movie of all time, “The Shawshank Redemption,” which was shot almost entirely in Richland County, Ohio – just a one-tank trip from the Ohio Valley. Offered at ...

Fathers, Sons and Grandsons Share Passion for the Rails

CASS, W.Va. — There’s something quite magical about an old steam train chugging along the mountainous terrain deep in the hills of West Virginia. For all those folks young and old who have grown up with a fascination for trains, a trip to Cass, West Virginia is just the ticket. My dad ...

Block by Block

WHEELING — Given a mix of seemingly endless construction downtown and Ferris-Bueller-day-off weather, it might be time to stop, get out of the car and look around a bit. Wheeling’s streets are waiting, with stories that play out block by block when they are viewed at human speed, ...

At Home With the Weather

WHEELING — What’s happening in the skies over Wheeling-Ohio County Airport may be critical to planes rolling up or down the runway. But, it’s the weather in one’s own backyard that can make or break a weekend cookout or gardening session. And, by “own backyard” we’re talking a ...

Open House Equals Home Cooking

WHEELING — Figuring out just how many heads of cabbage it will take to make coleslaw enough for that looming graduation open house can make even seasoned home cooks start Googling “food trucks near me.” But, a family that’s been there and done that in the full-on, home-kitchen ...

Home Stage Advantage

WHEELING — The Wheeling girl is there. Stage left of conductor John Devlin. A homegrown note in a sea of black-garbed musicians who’ve trained all over the nation. Think Julliard, Curtis, Rice, Eastman. Violist Michelle Stack’s path to the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra — and other ...