I lived there all my life, ther is no job base, if you are are a teacher you will be on the sub list forever unless you have that name,jobs are all
poverty level incomes, old money still runs the town .The new things are the mall {Highlands} same stores in a different area. The talk here is
Wheeling will soon be the home of a single A baseball team, Pirates affiliate, but all construction has stopped at the mall due to contracters not being paid.. no ground has been broken for this or the water amusement park that is on the drawing board
60 MILES FROM the SUPER BOWL CITY.
The pirates, once a great baseball franchise , are dissmal at best. the management there doesnt pay their players attractively, so they put bumms on the field, This management is the same one that owns most of your newspapers OGDEN NEWS.
The schools are top noch, and this is one of the best areas to raise children, baseball for kids is big,
The beast of the east really brings in teams from out of the area, travel teams/ ALL AGES FOR BOYS JULY 4TH WEEKEND
Girls softball, is now being added.to the Beast of the East starting this 2009 year
Hockey was introduced a while back but it seems to be dying off .The
highschools have acceped it and they play in the Pittsburgh division
PIHL. a LOT OF KIDS MOVE ON TO THE NEXT LEVEL FROM HERE.The Wheeling Nailers ECHL, play here.
Colemans fish mkt., Dicarlos pizza, Drovers wings in Wellsburg
there are major colleges in our area, West liberty state college once ranked the 10th cheapest college in the usa. soon to become a
a university in may 09,
Wheeling college, wv northern community college, belmont tech, in ST.CLAIRSVILLE OHIO,
The problem here is jobs..., when the kids graduated there is nothing here to keep them, even working for the State of WV pays below the poverty level, but now in this economie theres nowhere to go
except the EASTERN PANHANDLE of wv and that has slowed in its self. We like it here , and we plan to stay