WHEELING – Members of Wheeling City Council are scheduled to tackle a very light agenda during this evening’s regular council meeting, but still face a deadline from the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia to pause enforcing the city’s new camping ban. Dozens of homeless advocacy groups have joined in asking the city for […]
Wheeling Police Chief Shawn Schwertfeger and Director of Northwood Health Systems’ Crisis Services Kristy Myers discussed the life-saving abilities of CIT programs at the second-annual Peer Recovery Conference to inspire drug treatment specialists from across the state to begin their own. Held at Oglebay Park, the Peer Recovery Conference gathers peer-support specialists and recovery coaches […]
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Wheeling City Council on Tuesday is expected to hear a first reading on legislation authorizing asbestos removal and demolition on property the city acquired last year on 19th Street.
WHEELING City council will soon decide whether to spend nearly half a million dollars to knock down the former warehouses on 19th Street.
The first reading of the ordinance authorizing that move will come at the council’s first meeting of March at noon Tuesday. That also will be the first meeting in months held in person at the City-County Building on Chapline Street. The COVID-19 pandemic sent prior meetings to the virtual realm, as health and safety concerns prompted city officials to conduct business online.