Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church Celebrates 125 Years

WHEELING — For 125 years, Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church has been an integral part of Wheeling, both as a place of worship and as a community neighbor. Vance’s parishioners are now celebrating that milestone birthday both by honoring the church’s long, storied history and by casting ...

McLure House Hotel Hosts Open House for Locals on West Virginia Day

WHEELING — This West Virginia Day, Monday, June 20, the McLure House Hotel is hosting an open house from 4-7 p.m., during which locals can enjoy food and drink specials at the newly re-opened McLure House Bar & Grill, as well as guided tours throughout the hotel. In 2021, when the hotel ...

Forward Motion

By NORA EDINGER For the Sunday News-Register BETHLEHEM — About a decade ago, when Chris Surface was facing the same life-path decisions as 2022’s crop of high school graduates, a family member had a job-shadowing suggestion that was on point. “I shadowed at this exact clinic ...

Summering Like An Oglebay

WHEELING — If you’ve ever strolled through Oglebay Park’s gardens, admired the view while eating at the Garden Bistro or enjoyed an evening concert in the terraced amphitheater, you know more about summering like the property’s founding family than you might think. “Some things ...

Second Wind

WHEELING — The year Harriet Parsons hit a mid-life milestone brought two problems. One of them was exponentially smaller than the other, but its pleasant solution sticks around to this day. “I was 50 and going through a second, very hard chemotherapy in Connecticut,” Parsons said of ...

Taste of Home: Western Garden Yields Eastern Crops

BETHLEHEM — Even in an era in which gourmet groceries can be ordered online and delivered to one’s door, it’s still pretty tough to come by an opo squash that can grow tall as a person, long beans or a spinach-like green that must be grown in water. That’s why both sides of Nikki ...