Feb 27, 2021
Spike Wells has helped keep Centre Market in tip-top shape since 2005, and recently Wheeling city officials have recognized his efforts and expended his role to provide the same services to city owned properties at the former Ohio Valley Medical Center campus, including the new future headquarters of the Wheeling Police Department at the former Valley Professional Center. (Photo Provided)
WHEELING – Whether it be shoveling snow, making sure the vending machines are stocked, sprucing up the market house with a coat of paint or providing assistance with a festival in Centre Market, city of Wheeling employee Spike Wells puts his heart and soul into his job one he does exceptionally well. Officials have recognized what an asset Wells has been and have expanded his role.
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WHEELING Mayor Glenn Elliott took the floor of the Wheeling City Council meeting Tuesday the first session to be held in person since last fall and called out members of the West Virginia Legislature pushing for the elimination of municipal use fees.
Members of Wheeling City Council, which for the greater part of the past year has met virtually because of the COVID-19 pandemic, returned to council chambers Tuesday for the first time this year, and in fact, for the first time in many months.
While remarks from council members were relatively sparse, the mayor spoke at length in opposition of the recent effort in Charleston to eliminate municipal user fees. The city of Wheeling approved a $2 weekly user fee for people who work in the city in 2019, and the fee was implemented last year with the intention of raising funds for new headquarters for Wheeling’s police and fire departments, as well as funds for important infrastructure projects throughout the city.
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An artistic rendering shows the completed expansion of Northwood Health Systemâs facility on the corner of 19th and Wood streets in Wheeling. Following the closure of Ohio Valley Medical Center where Northwoodâs Behavioral Health Center had been housed as a tenant for many years, construction has been moving forward for a new addition for outpatient and residential care services on property adjacent to Northwoodâs existing administrative offices.
WHEELING The area of 19th Street in Wheeling is undergoing a major facelift from both the private and public sectors, as Northwood Health Systems continues to bring improvements to the site where its new addition is under construction.
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MARTINS FERRY Four hours into East Ohio Regional Hospital’s opening day on Thursday and the facility already had three to four ambulances come in and three patients admitted, according to Bernie Albertini, chief operating officer.
And the facility and its 400 employees are ready for more.
Since last May when it was announced that Dayton-based psychiatrist Dr. John Johnson had purchased EORH, local residents have been eagerly awaiting the day it would open again.
“We made it,” Albertini said with a smile.
EORH and its former sister facility, Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling, were shuttered in fall 2019 by former owner Alecto Healthcare Services of California. It was devastating news for the Ohio Valley not only because of the job losses, but because two major hospitals were now gone.