WHEELING Two men well known for their service to the Wheeling community will soon enter the Wheeling Hall of Fame. Dr. William Mercer and the late Robert Otten both will join nine other inductees at a Saturday, June 10, ceremony at WesBanco Arena. Otten and Mercer are being inducted in the category of public […]
Although it may not look like it right now, summer is right around the corner, which means restaurants and businesses throughout Ohio County are going to get even busier. The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department wants to give the public a few safety reminders.
WHEELING – Eleven notable Wheeling names – whose contributions to their respective fields span the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries – were announced Friday as the Wheeling Hall of Fame’s 2023 Induction Class. What those 11 have meant not just to Wheeling, but far beyond the city’s borders, is what Hall of Fame committee members […]
WHEELING With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Wednesday announcement that Narcan, the leading version of naloxone, will soon be available over the counter and without a prescription, officials from Ohio County to Capitol Hill praised the move as a crucial step to helping combat opioid addiction and overdoses in West Virginia. Narcan is […]
WHEELING, W.Va. (WTRF) — It kickstarts your brain into making you breathe again. That’s a basic explanation of how Narcan, also known as Naloxone, has kept the more than 100 thousand overdose deaths a year from being far higher. And in just months—it will be as just as easy to stop and pick up as […]