MOUNDSVILLE — Interested in an “up close and personal look at the murdering mind?” The Moundsville-Marshall County Public Library, in conjunction with the Marshall County Historical Society, will offer a book talk by an author who has delved into the darkest recesses of the human psyche. ...
WHEELING — This year the 42nd annual Undo’s Upper Ohio Valley Italian Festival kicks off today, Friday, July 25, and continues through Sunday, July 27, at Heritage Port in Wheeling. This year’s festival focus will be food, fun and family. Besides Italian foods of homemade sausage and ...
Friday, July 25 - Brannan & Waters, Denny’s Blue Angel, Bellaire, 6-8 p.m. - Jim Berze, Route 88 Burgers & Brew at Oglebay, Wheeling, 6-9 p.m. - Twice as Nice, Wheeling Park Amphitheater, 6-9 p.m. - The Muddle, River View Park, McMechen, 7 p.m. - Kanawha, Prima Marina, Moundsville, 7-10 p.m. - Radio Tokyo, The Mark at the Park – Sally Buffalo Park, Cadiz, 8 p.m. Saturday, July 26 - Ashley Best, Centre Market, Wheeling, noon to 2 p.m. - Screamer (reunion) with special guest Rattle Bones, Generations Restaurant & Pub, Wheeling, 7 p.m. - Strait Shooter Band, Route 40 ...
MOUNDSVILLE — The Strand Theatre Preservation Society is thrilled to welcome live theater to Moundsville with its production of “The Drowsy Chaperone.” The show runs at 7 p.m. today, Friday, July 25, and Saturday, July 26; and at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 27. Winner of five Tony awards, ...
I was just shy of 15 years old when I experienced my first trip in an airplane. My godmother at the time treated me to a trip to New York City and her home in Westchester County, New York. We caught the plane at the Wheeling-Ohio County Airport. It was in the summer of 1969 when commercial airlines frequented our airfield. That was a time when they rolled a pair of portable stairs to the plane and you climbed the steps without any fancy escalator or internal walkway. Having never been on a plane, I didn’t know what to expect. I just know that the takeoff was swift and I wasn’t ...
When I was a child, my mother had specific remedies when we were ill or suffered a childhood injury such as a spill from a bicycle. Like mothers of that era, she believed in that horrible, orange mercurochrome as the answer to scraped knees and other bleeding wounds. And the darn stuff stung like crazy when applied and kept your skin orange for days. If you fell and hit your head or sprained a body part, immediately a bag of frozen peas or a ziplock bag filled with ice would magically appear. It would be applied full-strength to the affected area. Stung by a bee? A concoction of baking ...
