Wheeling Mayoral Candidates Discuss Need for Additional Housing Options

WHEELING — People looking to move to Wheeling often are put off by the city’s older housing, and it’s an issue the next mayor must address. On Thursday, the six candidates for Wheeling mayor on May 14 gathered for a forum at West Virginia Northern Community College jointly sponsored by ...

Market Street in Downtown Wheeling Set To Reopen To Traffic on Monday

WHEELING – Work on the new storm sewer installation along Market Street as part of the Downtown Streetscape Project in Wheeling is coming to an end, and for the first time in months, the full length of Market Street is expected to reopen to traffic by the end of the day on Monday. While ...

House of the Carpenter Concludes Flood Operations on Wheeling Island

As the hub for donations and volunteers during the city’s last two weeks of flooding, the House of the Carpenter’s flood assistance efforts have had to rise alongside the Ohio River. Now, after two weeks of donation collection and flood clean-up, House of the Carpenter employees and ...

‘Here I Am Again’: Wheeling Island Residents Get Case of Flooding Deja Vu

WHEELING – Rain-weary residents of Wheeling Island barely had time to let their basements dry out from the April 4 flood when just a week later, the Ohio River began to swell to threatening levels once again. On Friday afternoon, the National Weather Service predicted that the river would ...

Landslide Destroys Home on Park View Road

WHEELING — Two Mondays ago, Betty Mott was sitting in her Park View Road home when she heard a crack, then a banging noise. She looked upstairs in the house and found nothing, then downstairs and found nothing. When she went to the basement, she found the source. “The cement was buckled ...