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Yippee Ki Yay, Wheeling

WHEELING — The signs are subtle. There’s a neighborhood Facebook post backed up by a blurry photo, a sudden wild yipping that sounds like poodles gone mad, a canine track in the mud in a place where dogs don’t freely roam. The conclusion is less vague. “There’s definitely an urban coyote population,” said Thomas Pratt, District 1 wildlife biologist for the state Division of Natural Resources. Pratt, based in Farmington, includes all of the Northern Panhandle in his 12-county region. There’s not a ton of the animals, though. The DNR estimates about 11,000 coyotes ...

THE PLANTSMAN

By NORA EDINGER For the Sunday News-Register WHEELING — There are gardeners and there are plantsmen. Larry Helgerman moved from the first category to the second quite some time ago. Part of the intensification involved meeting a daylily specialist who was a neighbor in the Pittsburgh ...

Wheeling, One Face at a Time

By NORA EDINGER For the Sunday News-Register WHEELING — While many Wheeling residents have seen one of artist Anne Hazlett Foreman’s murals somewhere in the city — and a substantial percentage have something smaller that she painted hanging on a household wall — few know the story ...

Bridgeport High School Fine Arts Festival Set For May 6

BRIDGEPORT — Bridgeport High School art teacher Mindy Sears doesn’t just want to teach her students how to make art — she wants to show them how to make a living. That’s why last year she and members of the school’s art club decided to hold an art fair where students can see how ...

People’s University Explores Japanese Culture

WHEELING — Starting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 4, and continuing for five consecutive Thursday evenings, the Ohio County Public Library in Wheeling will partner with The Japan Outreach Initiative (J.O.I.) at West Liberty University to present classes about Japanese culture. The Japanese ...

All Dressed Up

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — It’s deep in the heart of prom season, spring weddings are looming, and Carol Barlow’s downtown Custom Fashions is aflutter with bits of whisper-thin mesh, lace and yards of silk that rustle at every touch. And, don’t forget the sequins. They are everywhere. Barlow, who’s been altering clothing casually for 40 years and specializing professionally in formalwear for about four, said they are particularly plentiful on this year’s crop of prom formals. It’s the same for glitter and the kind of plunging necklines that would have horrified her mother back ...