A group of girls at Warwood Middle School approached Community in Schools Site Coordinator Heather Weekley last year with a simple request: decorate the drab bathrooms that they use every day. “There were three or four girls that came up and approached me and said that they really wanted ...
When Dr. William Mercer was a family medicine resident at Wheeling Hospital, he never imagined that he would become a champion of the anti-smoking movement in the region. “My duty when we would go read EKGs was to go get the cardiologist the ashtray,” Mercer said. “And we’d sit there ...
WHEELING — Steenrod Elementary School student Niko Gomez explains his grandmother Lucy doesn’t like the way her hands look. She sees them as old, aging and not attractive, according to Gomez. Now his effort to tell her she has beautiful hands — ones that take loving care of those ...
WHEELING – Shelley Reager has a job that lights up and brightens other people’s events, but Wednesday it was her time to shine. Reager and her business, Fully Lit & Co., took home the prize money at the Show of Hands business presentation competition Wednesday night at the Wheeling ...
WHEELING — Seventh grade students “took flight” at Bridge Street Middle School on Thursday afternoon in the school’s fifth annual paper airplane competition, a way to learn about motion and force. The plane throwing competition is the brainchild of science teacher Kenneth Dague, ...
WHEELING — Police Chief Shawn Schwertfeger hopes to generate excitement about police work and recruit new officers as television crews soon will be riding along with members of the Wheeling Police Department. He confirmed contracts have been signed for his officers to be featured on “On ...
