WHEELING — Artworks Around Town is pleased to announce Janet Hart will be the guest artist in the Studio Gallery for the month of November. The show will open with a free public reception from 5:30-8 p.m. Nov. 1. Hart, born in Martins Ferry, is now a resident of Wheeling. She began drawing ...

Wheeling YWCA to Host Inaugural Redhead Fest

WHEELING — The Wheeling YWCA is bringing a colorful event to the area — the Ohio Valley’s first Redhead Festival. The festival will be held from noon-5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2 at the YWCA, 1100 Chapline St., Wheeling. The Redhead Festival has multiple goals: to set a Guinness Book of World Records for the most natural redheads in one place, and to raise skin cancer awareness that plagues a large number of redheads. “This is the first of its kind in the quickly growing and expanding Ohio River Valley and we are expecting large numbers of redheads attending,” said Ron ...

Tour of Island Mould Slated for Tuesday

WHEELING — A special tour of the renowned Island Mould & Machine Co. and Museum at 84 Joan St. in the Fulton area of Wheeling is on tap for the regular South Wheeling Preservation Alliance meeting on Tuesday. Anyone wishing to go on the tour is asked to meet at Trinity Lutheran Church in South Wheeling at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday and then carpool to the shop at 7:30 p.m. Note there will be a Neighborhood Watch meeting from 6:30-7 p.m. Tuesday at the church. Island Mould has been a glass mould specialist company for 80 years, preparing moulds for more than 100 different hand shops (such ...

Murder Mystery Night at Wheeling Central High School

WHEELING — Want something fun and exciting to do during the fall days of November, or better yet to take your sweetheart out and relive those totally rad days of your senior prom? Well the Wheeling Central Performing Arts Boosters will host the “Totally Rad ‘80s Prom’s Gone Bad” murder mystery party at 7 p.m. Nov. 9 at the high school. Join in a fun evening that includes the murder of one of the characters during the event. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. With their high school careers coming to an end, the students of Mayhem High find themselves battling it out over grades, ...

Fundraiser By West Virginia Norther Community College Friends of The College Slated

WHEELING — West Virginia Northern Community College’s Friends of the College group will hold its annual fundraiser from 7-10 p.m. Friday at the college’s Education Center on the Wheeling campus. The event, the Witch’s Brew, will have a Halloween theme. Instead of a traditional sit-down dinner, this year’s event will feature food stations. The college’s culinary arts department will prepare dishes and signature cocktails to go along with the Halloween theme. Performing during the event will be the band, Hit Play, along with Aedryan Methyus, a master magician and ...

Special Activities

Lunch With Books Poet George Bilgere of Cleveland will appear for the Wheeling Poetry Series and Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library, 52 16th St., Wheeling, at noon Tuesday. The program is free and open to the public. Film Showing The Moundsville-Marshall County Public Library, 700 Fifth St., will present a “Think Outside the Book” film, “Yesterday,” rated PG-13, at 6 p.m. Tuesday. The event is free and open to the public. Attendees may bring snacks and seat cushions. Preservation Alliance The South Wheeling Preservation Alliance will meet at Trinity ...