A local man is facing federal charges after threatening the Tree of Life Jury and a local hospital announces a new pediatric unit. Some sad news for the friendly city this week as we learn of Slim Lehart’s passing on Monday.
WHEELING Wherever you may have been in the audience of Jamboree USA, in the Marshall County Commission offices, or even just shooting the breeze sitting in his living room if you were with Slim Lehart, you were in for a good time. “He would always say, ‘I’m not a singer, I’m an […]
WHEELING Slim Lehart known far and wide as “The Wheeling Cat” and whose country music stylings were an Ohio Valley staple for decades died this past weekend at age 88. Family members confirmed Lehart’s passing Sunday evening, but declined further public comment. Lehart, born Richard Hartley in Marshall County in 1935, moved […]
FAIRMONT — Many Fairmont residents know Rev. Richard "Dick" Bowyer for serving as campus minister at the Wesley Foundation for Fairmont State University.
HEATHER ZIEGLER Life Editor WHEELING Fans of country music from its early days at The Jamboree in Wheeling, are sure to delight in the newest publication that includes photos of the many long-ago forgotten performers who once graced the stage at the Capitol Music Hall and Expo Hall on Wheeling Island. The book is titled “The Jamboree in Wheeling,” and is the third music publication by authors Ivan M. Tribe and Jacob L. Bapst. After publishing two previous books – “Mountaineers Jamboree: Country Music in West Virginia” in 1984, and “West Virginia’s Traditional Country Music” in 2015, the authors felt Wheeling’s Jamboree rated its own book. All of the books are published by Arcadia Publishing as part of its “Images of America” series.