Author: Steve Novotney

Steve Novotney has been a professional journalist for 33 years, working in print for weekly, daily, and bi-weekly publications, writing for a number of regional and national magazines, host baseball-related talks shows on Pittsburgh’s ESPN, and as a daily, all-topics talk show host in the Wheeling and Steubenville markets since 2004. Novotney is the co-owner, editor, and co-publisher of LEDE News, and is the host of “Novotney Now,” a daily program that airs Monday-Friday from 3-6 p.m. on River Talk 100.1 & 100.9 FM.

An OPEN LETTER To … Wheeling HOF

Free Speech
Why the heck has George Kellas not been selected for his proper enshrining into the Wheeling Hall of Fame?

From OVMC to Travel Gig

People
Interstate 70 to I-79, then I-68 after Morgantown, and from there a motorist navigates the split mountain and descends into what many refer to as, “The Swamp” that is Washington, D.C.

Is Contamination an Issue?

News
If there exists a cancer concern, forget it, according to Wheeling Fire Chief Larry Helms. If remediation can cleanse the three acres at the end of 19th...

Good Decisions Move Us Forward

Free Speech
Final decisions will need to be made during this new year in the city of Wheeling, and with everything Wheeling’s Council has resting on...

Biggest Blaze of Career

News
Larry Helms joined the Wheeling Fire Department in October 1986 and was named chief in September 2007, and this one blaze that destroyed the former Island Exposition Hall involved the largest structure of his 34-year tenure.

What Remains of the Island Expo Hall

News
Only the Ladder 1 crew remained on Wheeling Island today at the site of a massive fire that destroyed the former Exposition Hall. The building,...

Our Valley’s Decade

Community
It was reported during the 1990s that the people of the Upper Ohio Valley would have to experience a change from being an industrial region to a service industry, but no one told anyone it would mean the additional of a second job to survive.

Expo Hall a Total Loss

News
According to scanner communication between Ohio County 911 dispatchers and first responders, crews were first released before 8:30 p.m. last night from the scene of the massive fire, but the Ladder 1 and Ladder 6 companies remained to continue efforts to completely extinguished the blaze. Once maintained, a skeleton crew remained on scene.

Tops of 2019 – Recovery Is Possible

News
Those are most of the drugs that have killed in this Upper Ohio Valley, according to law enforcement officials in Ohio, Marshall, and Belmont counties. The last decade, though, has been dominated by overdoses involving opioids, including heroin because snorting or injecting the Schedule 1 narcotic is much cheaper than prescription pills.

Tops of 2019 – Reports Shock the Valley

News
People pass away every day here in the Upper Ohio Valley, and 99.99 percent of those deaths only are mentioned on a newspaper’s Obituary Page, but in 2019 the public was shocked by a pair of reports out of Marshall and Ohio counties.

Tops of 2019 – Sites Never Seen

News
We know what patching a pothole looks like, and we’ve witnessed new bridge construction, but never before have residents of the Upper Ohio Valley seen our roadways in such a rotted condition.

The Best Part

Free Speech
No worries … this isn’t going to be long, and that’s because I have been blessed with family and friends here at the house...
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