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Photo by Scott McCloskey â Crews with Savage Construction work on an open green space and parking area project behind the schoolâs B&O Building in downtown Wheeling this week. A small section of 18th Street between Chapline and Market streets was closed off and enclosed permanently as part of the project.
WHEELING – A large lot operated by West Virginia Northern Community College getting upgraded into an open greenspace and parking area behind the school’s B&O Building in downtown Wheeling is beginning to take shape.
Crews with Savage Construction of Wheeling have been working at the site, located between Chapline and Market streets near a closed-off section of 18th Street, since early December. The project was approved during a recent Wheeling Planning Commission meeting, according to Wheeling Economic and Community Development Department Assistant Director Tom Connelly. He said that, in addition to the parking lot and greenspac
From staff reports
WHEELING West Virginia Northern Community College has received a nearly $190,000 Opioid-Impacted Family Support Program grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration.
This grant-funded program will expand access to behavioral health services for families impacted by opioids and other substance use disorders. HRSA awarded 28 organizations nearly $12.5 million across the United States. WVNCC was the only organization in West Virginia awarded a grant.
The grant provides stipends and tuition assistance for students enrolled in one of two new programs at WVNCC.
With the grant, the school aims to increase training opportunities for behavioral health paraprofessionals working with families and to provide tuition assistance for participants. Northern will use grant funds, in part, to create two new academic programs focused on substance abuse: Substance Abuse Intervention Specialist and Substance Abuse Intervention Technician. The grant will also cove
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The City of Wheeling purchased the former Ohio Valley Medical Center campus this past year.
WHEELING Despite all the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic presented this year, officials in the city of Wheeling were counting their blessings as 2020 comes to a close, with great optimism for the future.
City leaders this past week highlighted the many accomplishments and the continued progress made with projects throughout Wheeling in the face of the pandemic. With a new regime of city council finishing its first six months in office, the Friendly City is ready to close the chapter on this unprecedented year and kick off 2021 by hitting the ground running.
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WHEELING – Members of the Wheeling Planning Commission met virtually Monday night, recommending site plan approval for a number of projects in the city, including the plan for the proposed Duplaga Professional Center on Washington Avenue.
Attorney Bob Fitzsimmons and property owner Chris Duplaga joined commission members to discuss the proposed site plan for the project at 1108 Washington Ave., located right at the diagonal intersection with West Washington Avenue.
Some voiced opposition to developing the site in a primarily residential neighborhood. Three lots on the property were rezone to allow construction for a small medical office complex. Yet a majority of those involved including a majority of Wheeling Planning Commission and Wheeling City Council members supported the rezoning and the development itself.