Go Big and Go Home

WHEELING — There’s only so much brick wall a body can take. This is something Michael Kreuger Jr. discovered over the summer, when he was methodically painting — one side at a time — the South Wheeling Victorian his family has called home for generations. Kreuger — a preservation ...

A Band of Sisters

WHEELING — Life’s pieces can be fitting into place. The job. The house. The school for the kids. But, as anyone who’s ever made a fresh start in a new city knows, the absence of local friends who’ve got your back can be painful. “When I came here, Hank knew so many people ...

Take This Crash Course in Sweet Potato Pie 101

WHEELING — It was a case of one grandma and four stair-step granddaughters under foot. “She always had us in the kitchen making sure we knew how to cook,” said Stephanie Nevels Stradwick of Wheeling, one of the sisters. Stradwick, who will be rolling out a Thanksgiving buffet to end ...

Move Afoot To Rescue OVMC Artifacts

WHEELING — The skeleton is accounted for. The remains of a teen girl — possibly born around the time of the Civil War — were retrieved from the already shuttered School of Nursing as Ohio Valley Medical Center itself ceased operations in late 2019. Within weeks of the abrupt closure, ...

Oasis: Last of City’s Marist Brothers Greening South Wheeling

WHEELING — It was a day so blue-sky perfect it seemed entirely possible. The garden oasis the city’s two remaining Marist brothers have wrapped around their tidy Victorian and leapfrogged into an empty lot elsewhere in the neighborhood could clearly stretch some more. Past an auction ...

Phantom Fall Fest Winds Down at Kennywood

WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. — Twenty years after the Phantom and his Scream Team first swarmed the midways of Kennywood to offer tricks and treats, the region’s biggest and best Halloween event will be wrapping up this weekend. Kennywood’s Phantom Fall Fest has offered six weekends of ...