The Wheeling Mob: Part 7 Steve Novotney March 17, 2017 1 Comment WARNING: This article contains explicit language and subject matter that is not suitable for children. It is the equivalent of Rated R.(Writer’s Note: This is the seventh in a series of stories that will...
The Wheeling Mob: Part 6 Steve Novotney February 13, 2017 WARNING: This article contains explicit language and subject matter that is not suitable for children. It is the equivalent of Rated R.(Writer’s Note: This is the sixth in a series of stories that will...
The Legends of Roney’s Point Examined Steve Novotney December 17, 2016 There was zero political correctness involved when I was first told the tales of Roney’s Point. Legend had it then that this was where the county’s crazy people were locked away, tortured, and then...
The Wheeling Mob: Part 5 Steve Novotney December 1, 2016 WARNING: This article contains explicit language and subject matter that is not suitable for children. It is the equivalent of Rated R.(Writer’s Note: This is the fifth in a series of stories that will...
Festival of Lights – The Untold Stories Steve Novotney November 12, 2016 Bill Koegler would drive from Oglebay Park to the Greggsville section of Wheeling at the bottom of the hill, turn around in the Convenient Food Mart parking lot, and drive back up W.Va. 88. The next time,...
Caridi Authors, Releases His First Children’s Book Steve Novotney November 4, 2016 They called it the “slow” reading group in the grade school Tony Caridi attended in Lockport, N.Y., because, in the late 1960s, teachers were permitted to make such references and...
The Wheeling Mob: Part 4 Steve Novotney October 29, 2016 This article contains explicit language and subject matter that is not suitable for children. It is the equivalent of Rated R.(Writer’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of stories that will...
W.Va.’s Poet Laureate A Student Of Life Steve Novotney October 27, 2016 This Poet Laureate’s pace when he’s publicly reading his work is sometimes somewhat swift and steamed, but when Marc Harshman is embracing a conversation, the author chooses his words most carefully....
The Wheeling Mob: Part 3 Steve Novotney October 15, 2016 1 Comment WARNING: This article contains explicit language and subject matter that is not suitable for children. This is R-rated. (Writer’s Note: This is the third in a series of stories that will concentrate on...
The Wheeling Mob: Part 2 Steve Novotney October 7, 2016 (Writer’s Note: This is the second in a series of stories that will concentrate on the organized-crime scene in and around Wheeling during the past century.)THE RATThe high-level gangsters scattered, but...
The Wheeling Mob: Part 1 Steve Novotney October 1, 2016 THE BOSSES, BOOKIES, AND BURGOYNE Bill Lias ordered the bombing, so say a few folks in the know who survived and are still alive. Paul Hankish was making a lot of derogatory comments about “Big Bill,”...
Zach Abraham Will Never Outrun ‘The Catch’ Steve Novotney September 19, 2016 1 Comment No matter where he has traveled in the state of West Virginia since, people still recall “The Catch” on Oct. 15 at old Pitt Stadium during the 1994 “Backyard Brawl.” Only twenty-four seconds...
A Man and the Forest Steve Novotney September 8, 2016 By: Steve Novotney Originally published on Vandaleer site: Elkinite.com He, of course, owns a truck, and it’s got a camper top on the back. He owns a dog, too; he’s an outside canine; the...