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Mar 31, 2021 COVID Vaccines Immediately Available for Wheeling Residents WHEELING, W.VA. – With COVID-19 vaccinations more widely available, City of Wheeling officials are encouraging residents who want a vaccine to make an appointment via Wheeling Hospital’s self-scheduling website. The hospital now has 5,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine available to residents of the Northern Panhandle. City Manager Robert Herron said while the number of positive COVID cases in Ohio County are trending in the right direction, it’s important that the people who desire to be vaccinated are able to receive...

ERIC AYRES Staff Writer Photo by Eric Ayres West Virginia Northern Community College President Dr. Daniel Mosser addressed city leaders during Tuesday evening’s regular meeting of Wheeling City Council, blasting the city for its support of a venture to bring a program through Bluefield State College to the former Ohio Valley Medical Center campus. WHEELING — Wheeling City Council members attending their second in-person meeting of the year Tuesday were publicly excoriated at the end of the meeting by presidents of three local colleges, who continue to express disdain over the city’s ...

For The Times Leader WHEELING — Officials at Bluefield State College and in the city of Wheeling expressed optimism about potential for collaborating with three local colleges to provide the best possible array of opportunities for higher education in the Ohio Valley. Last week, presidents of Wheeling University, West Virginia Northern Community College and West Liberty State University publicly opposed efforts by city officials to bring a new program from Bluefield State College to Wheeling. The city had entered into a memorandum of understanding with Bluefield State, hoping to work togeth...

File photo WHEELING — The city of Wheeling is slated to introduce legislation tonight to raise water, sewer and garbage pickup rates for municipal customers. According to one of the ordinances up for a first reading during tonight’s Wheeling City Council meeting, the sewage rate hike alone represents a 45-percent increase, which would provide funding for sewer system upgrades and improvement projects. The new legislation states that the city plans to issue one or more combined waterworks and sewer system revenue bonds of up to $45 million to finance the cost of designing, acquiring, build...

Staff Writers Photo by Scott McCloskey The Ohio County Commission approved a $1 million tax abatement for the city of Wheeling for the former Ohio Valley Medical Center campus. WHEELING — The city of Wheeling now doesn’t have to pay Ohio County more than $1 million in taxes owed on the former Ohio Valley Medical Center property, and the Ohio County Board of Education is on board with that. The Ohio County Commission has approved a tax abatement of more than $1 million for the city of Wheeling, which assumed ownership of the former OVMC site in the summer of 2020. As part of last year’s ...