The Week’s Top Articles on LEDE – October 12-18

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Along with a plethora of community information, LEDEnews.com published a number of features about local sports, opinion, our people, and our traditions here in Wheeling and throughout the Upper Ohio Valley.

Thank you for reading and sharing our links so others who live locally, or have moved away but still keep track, can stay updated on their hometowns.

Hello, Good Day, and Good Luck

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Fatal Mistakes

Haunt and Hunt

Distracted, Then Dead

Long Live the Legends

Devil in the Details

Freedom of Speech

He Sings the Songs

Dream Catchin

Steve Novotney
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.

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