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Just Some ‘Feed’ For Thought

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It’s just a silly chicken, I tell myself. Throw the hen some feed and move on. But then this beautiful black as coal and shiny fowl begins to follow me to my car. Okay, I tell myself, I will engage the lonely chicken for a minute or two. So I sit on my neighbor’s front porch steps and talk to her. Well that was months ago, and today I find myself more and more sitting and conversing with my feathered friend as she gobbles up the few chopped up grapes I brought to her. She has gotten to the point that she allows me to stroke her back every once and a while. I never spent much time ...

Guess Who’s Not Coming to Wheeling ...

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WHEELING - Due to an unforeseen issue with the music licensing, The Guess Who performance scheduled for next Saturday, April 27, at the Capitol Theatre in Wheeling has been canceled. Tickets purchased by credit card will be refunded automatically. Allow three to five business days for ...

Lionel Cartwright, Charlie McCoy To Play Capitol Theatre

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WHEELING — Lionel Cartwright and Charlie McCoy join forces for an incredible evening of music on Thursday, April 25, at the Capitol Theatre in Wheeling. The two multi-instrumentalists will present an intimate evening of stories and songs from their incredible careers. Show time is 7 p.m. Cartwright, born in Gallipolis, Ohio, and raised in Glen Dale, was a member of the famous country music class of 1989 and nominated for 1990 ACM New Male Vocalist alongside Garth Brooks and Clint Black. His musical hits include 3-BMI Million-Air Award songs, including the Billboard #1 “Leap of ...

Tearing Down, Building Up

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I was born and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia nearly 70 years ago. My birth took place at the now defunct and nearly demolished Ohio Valley Medical Center. That hospital, ironically, was also the site of my father’s childhood home before giving way for the hospital construction. While running errands in the Center Wheeling area on Monday — the day of the lunar eclipse — we found ourselves near the demolition work at the old OVMC. There is something about those monstrous sized machines that begs observers to stop and watch. And we did. With each swing of the massive crane ...

Pennyroyal Welcomes Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers

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FAIRVIEW — The Pennyroyal Opera House will host a bluegrass show today, Friday, April 12, featuring Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers. Named Entertainers of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) in 2019, Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers have consistently ...