Bunk Beds Ordered to Increase Winter Shelter Capacity

WHEELING – The winter shelter operated by The Life Hub in downtown Wheeling has been at or close to capacity each night since opening for the season in mid-December, and officials are looking to add some new bunk beds in order to maximize the available space for those seeking overnight ...

1200 Block of Market Street in Wheeling to Reopen

WHEELING – Work on the underground drainage structures along Market Street in Downtown Streetscape Project continues to move forward, and new storm sewer installation in the 1200 block of Market Street is wrapping up – with the long-awaited reopening of this portion of downtown set for ...

OVMC Demolition Beginning Next Week

Demolition is scheduled to start Monday at the former Ohio Valley Medical Center, with the Northwood Health Systems building the first to be razed. The structure is one of seven on OVMC’s former campus that will be demolished over the next 10 months. The razing will make available more than ...

Homeless Advocates Denounce City Camping Ban

Local organizations that serve the homeless community made their case during Tuesday’s Wheeling City Council meeting as to why the city should put its ordinance prohibiting public camping on hold until a managed camp is established. After the ban went in place on Monday, the homeless in ...

Homeless Encampments Get Two More Weeks Before Cleanouts

Heather Corn received a frantic call from her boyfriend Wednesday morning, telling her to come immediately back to the homeless encampment the two were living in near Tunnel Green. A bulldozer was preparing to plow it over. That ultimately didn’t happen Wednesday. Corn and her boyfriend ...