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With vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 85, the nays are 1. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Mr. Kennedy mr. President . The presiding officer the senator for louisiana. Mr. Kennedy mr. President , i have three requests for committees to meet du...

, wheeling will start to grow because this is what some people would refer to as a jumping off point. Ohio, indiana and so on. That is why the National Road will end up this way. As more and more people come into the area, then the area will move up and down the river. It will start to expand. The center of it is where we are right now. As we move through the 19th century it extends to the south, grows,north, and as it buildings were made at a brick. By the midcentury there will be a couple of h...

WHEELING – The former Wheeling Inn on Main Street will soon be coming down as members of Wheeling City Council are slated to act on legislation that will award a bid for its demolition. A new ordinance is expected to be introduced during Tuesday’s Wheeling City Council meeting to authorize City Manager Robert Herron to […]

WHEELING — U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin said he will do all he can to help obtain federal aid and assistance for local areas affected by flooding. Manchin, D-W.Va, spoke on the issue while traveling in the Northern Panhandle on Thursday. “I went up and down the panhandle, and it was just horrible,” Manchin said during […]

Bids ranging from just over $400,000 to just under $1 million have been offered for the job of demolition and environmental remediation of the former Wheeling Inn. Yet, dollar signs aren’t the only factors that will come into play in the decision, which likely will come after the Easter holiday. The former hotel’s demolition ultimately […]

WHEELING – Woodsdale Elementary School students are reading books, and their efforts are bringing a book vending machine to the school. The school’s student council had a goal of raising $7,000 needed for the book vending machine, and members organized a school-wide read-a-thon to bring in the money. The members also went out to local […]

MOUNDSVILLE – West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice helped hand out millions of dollars in environmental and arts grants during a ceremony held Thursday at the Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex in Moundsville. Justice received help from Randall Reid-Smith, curator of the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History, and two local West Virginia Commission […]

WHEELING – The city of Wheeling this week launched a new web page dedicated to providing the public the latest information on the state of West Virginia’s ongoing Downtown Streetscape Project. The web page is accessible online at www.wheelingwv.gov/WheelingStreetscapeProject. “As information becomes available, this will serve as a conduit to providing that information to the […]

Downtown Wheeling is in the midst of a major makeover. Yet one of the most important pieces of a reinvigorated downtown has yet to be addressed: the future of the former Wheeling Inn. The site, purchased last year by the Wheeling Convention & Visitors Bureau, is set to be demolished and rebuilt as a new […]

WHEELING – The group behind the upcoming Wheeling Gateway Center – the new welcome center planned for the spot where the old Wheeling Inn now stands – is seeking input from Wheeling residents and visitors as to what they think that new site should look like. Those interested can visit wheelinggateway.tippingpointdev.com to find not only […]