WHEELING As Wheeling’s homeless have taken up residence at the exempted campsite near the maintenance trail along Wheeling Creek, city officials have rele
Last month, the city of Wheeling moved all homeless camps to one centralized location along Maintenance Trail.According to the city manager's office, it cost ta
The cost of cleanups at previous homeless camps around the city of Wheeling cost taxpayers nearly $90,000, city officials announced Tuesday. In a release, the city said that cleanups that occurred between September 2023 and April 2024 cost a total of $87,846.11. That includes the cleanup of individual sites that existed prior to and after […]
WHEELING – The Northern Panhandle Continuum of Care has completed its Point in Time Homeless Count, a 24-hour event that involves counting homeless people and asking them questions about their homelessness. Melissa Adams, homeless liaison for the city of Wheeling, said the results of the survey conducted by agencies across the Northern Panhandle will be […]
We call them a “homeless person.” Yet even if defined by only those two words, a homeless person is not just homeless, they are also a person. Many in our community, including the city of Wheeling, seem to have forgotten that. The homeless are not faceless strangers. They are someone’s daughter, someone’s brother, or someone’s […]