BELMONT — Sometimes, Popsicle cold is what makes a good hike, according to John Hickenbottom, a park naturalist for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Hickenbottom, who was visiting Barkcamp State Park in Belmont for the day, couldn’t help but check off some reasons that winter ...
By NORA EDINGER For the Sunday News-Register MOUNDSVILLE — Is it possible — in a real, 2023 kind of way — to grow up, train for a career and launch a successful adulthood without leaving the Ohio Valley and family roots in the dust? Maybe not in every case, but food truck ...
WHEELING — The new People’s University series being offered at the Ohio County Public Library in Wheeling on Thursday evenings beginning Jan. 5 will explore the ancient world, including Egypt, Greece and Rome. The eight classes begin at 7 p.m. in the library’s auditorium through Feb. ...
By NORA EDINGER For the Sunday News-Register WHEELING — The terrazzo-floored, marble-walled lobby is quiet in a sanctuary-on-a-Monday-morning kind of way. Only two of the dozen or so aluminum-grilled windows that once bustled with an entire city’s worth of all things postal are open. ...
By NORA EDINGER For the Sunday News-Register WHEELING — It’s cold and raining-snowing, and there’s nothing remotely cozy inside 722 and 724 Main Street. There’s only the steel beams that are keeping the walls from caving in and the bit of rubble that remains on the floor after both units of this 1846 duplex were gutted. There’s also mystery enough, however, that Wheeling historian Jeanne Finstein has scrambled down the steep drop from one front door. She wants a closer look at an earlier foundation that ongoing restoration work coordinated by the Friends of Wheeling recently ...
By NORA EDINGER For the Sunday News-Register WHEELING — There are a lot of ways Jeramie Alvarado’s story could be told. There’s the cultural angle for one thing. Alvarado and wife Rachel (Williams) Alvarado are business owners whose combined heritage includes Hispanic, Native ...
