WHEELING — Oglebay Institutes’ Towngate Theatre in Wheeling continues its 2023-34 season David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Rabbit Hole.” Shows take place for two weekends: March 15-17 and March 22-23. “Rabbit Hole” is the story of a young family’s journey ...
St. Patrick is believed to have used a three-leaf clover to explain the complexity of the Trinity to nonbelievers in 5th century Ireland. Ever since, the shamrock has been revered by the Irish and held as a symbol of good luck. The word shamrock is derived from the Celtic word seamrog, which ...
T-L Photos/JENNIFER COMPSTON-STROUGH Low-growing crocus blossoms surround homes along Main Street in Belmont, where they push through snow or fallen leaves late each winter. Native to the Alps, southern Europe and the Mediterranean region, according to Britannica.com, crocuses have been ...
BELMONT — Vietnam veteran and Belmont resident Kurt Turner recently published a book about his time serving in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War, titled “I’ve Never Been to Heaven (But I’ve Been to Oklahoma).” “The only way that our stories get out is if we write,” he ...
WHEELING — The Thursday Music Club of Wheeling will sponsor the annual Young Musicians Auditions at Vance Memorial Church in Wheeling on March 15-16. Sixty-six students will present memorized solo selections in piano and voice. This year’s judges will be John Allen Rose, piano, and David Scherrick, voice. Rose, an international prize-winning pianist-composer, has twice performed his own piano music at Carnegie Hall in New York City. His compositions, including solo works, opera, piano concerto, violin concerto, cello concerto, etc., have been performed in North America, Europe ...
CONNORVILLE — Percussionist and Buckeye Local alum Elec Simon will be bringing his message and music back to the district with a series of appearances at local schools next week. Simon, a Smithfield native and Buckeye Local High School graduate, is scheduled to speak at Buckeye Local Jr./Sr. High School in Connorville at 12:30 p.m. and South Elementary in Tiltonsville at 2 p.m. on Thursday and North Elementary in Brilliant at 9:30 a.m. and West Elementary in Adena at 1:30 p.m. on Friday. Simon is known for entertaining crowds off Broadway and in traveling shows for “STOMP,” ...
