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Located on Chapline Street in Wheeling's Centre Market is a small 10 foot by 20 foot photography studio. It is the “home...
08/07/2026

Located on Chapline Street in Wheeling's Centre Market is a small 10 foot by 20 foot photography studio. It is the “home base” of Melody Rae Petras’ artistic passion – specifically analog photography. Melody works with film, VHS, and tintypes.

Read more on our website or pick up a copy from one of our vendors today!

https://www.msmpaperwv.com/news/melsalternativeimages

Hey you! Did you know that you can get 50% off your produce and grocery items when you pay with SNAP at the Public Marke...
08/07/2026

Hey you! Did you know that you can get 50% off your produce and grocery items when you pay with SNAP at the Public Market, Wheeling’s premier nonprofit grocery store downtown?

The Public Market, a project of Grow Ohio Valley, partners with local and regional farmers to bring fresh produce, eggs, meat, and dairy products to Wheeling. The Market receives funding through the WV Food and Farm Coalition as well as a private donor for their SNAP Stretch program, which allows them to offer extensive discounts for SNAP/EBT customers on a wide variety of grocery items and produce.

https://www.msmpaperwv.com/news/publicmarketsnap-stretch

For our Street Sticky section this issue, we asked the community what freedom means to them - this is what they said
08/06/2026

For our Street Sticky section this issue, we asked the community what freedom means to them - this is what they said

Wheeling natives Mike and Devin are lifelong best friends who can often be spotted around Wheeling “horseplaying around,...
08/06/2026

Wheeling natives Mike and Devin are lifelong best friends who can often be spotted around Wheeling “horseplaying around,” as Devin likes to say. They are also two of Mustard Seed Mountain’s hardworking vendors, who sell the paper on the street and at several locations around town.

Mike and Devin’s moms were childhood best friends, so the pair met when they were in diapers and spent much of their time growing up together. Now, both in the latter half of their thirties, Mike and Devin say they’re still more like brothers than friends.

👇Read more👇

https://www.msmpaperwv.com/news/vendorspotlightmikeanddevin

08/05/2026

📣 CALLING ALL ARTISTS, POETS AND WRITERS 📣

As we continue to publish summer MSM content, we are also looking ahead to our fall issue of the street paper. If you, or someone you know, is interested in contributing a piece of art, a poem, or writing for MSM in any capacity, please reach out!

Email us at [email protected] or stop by the MoJo on Thursdays to chat!

They called it ‘The Social Question.’ “What to do about all these poor people!? Especially in the face of a new age of A...
08/05/2026

They called it ‘The Social Question.’

“What to do about all these poor people!? Especially in the face of a new age of American innovation, prosperity, and wealth?” We are asking it today, in Wheeling and across the country, too often fraught with overwhelm at the unsurmountable complexity of the seemingly unprecedented situation.

But we asked these questions before, under the amazingly similar conditions of the late 1800’s and turn of the 20th century.

They called it ‘The Social Question.’ What to do about the modern, urban-rural, fast-changing, technology-driven situation of unprecedented wealth juxtaposed with unprecedented poverty?

What to make of the haves and the have-nots? The rich and the poor? Workers and owners? Especially in a constantly changing world…

https://www.msmpaperwv.com/news/thesocialquestion

When I first moved to Warwood, no one knocked on my door.That's not an indictment of Warwood. I've lived in many places ...
08/05/2026

When I first moved to Warwood, no one knocked on my door.

That's not an indictment of Warwood. I've lived in many places in my adult life, and there's rarely been more than a wave from our porches, a smile in passing, and a quick retreat to our own private lives. But I moved to Wheeling for a sense of community, so I’d be damned if I didn’t cultivate that in my own little piece of the city.

👇Read on!👇

https://www.msmpaperwv.com/news/hyperlocalorganizing

Some people make an impression the moment you meet them. They carry themselves with a quiet confidence, possess a seemin...
08/04/2026

Some people make an impression the moment you meet them. They carry themselves with a quiet confidence, possess a seemingly endless well of knowledge, and have an uncanny ability to solve problems that leave everyone else scratching their heads. More importantly, they use those gifts not for recognition, but to make life better for the people around them. Quenton “Q” Northcraft is one of those rare people.

I met Q in 2022 when I began facilitating a weekly youth art class at The Mother Jones Center for Resilient Community (The MoJo). One afternoon he stopped by, introduced himself, and asked what we were working on. After hearing about the class and the projects we had planned, he immediately began suggesting materials that would help the students. Before long, he returned with drawing pencils, canvas panels, sidewalk chalk, pencil cases, and other supplies. He simply saw a need and filled it.

👇Keep reading👇

https://www.msmpaperwv.com/news/thequietmountainmover

Last October, seeing a need in our community, a group of local friends decided to create a temporary space where people ...
08/04/2026

Last October, seeing a need in our community, a group of local friends decided to create a temporary space where people could access resources they needed without paying money or asking the state for help. By starting the Really Really Free Market (RRFM) in Wheeling, we were carrying on a modern-day anarchist tradition that many diverse communities have engaged in over the past twenty years.

The first Really Really Free Markets were held by anti-globalization activists in the early 2000s. They were a response to politicians and think tanks saying “free market” capitalism would be the solution to all our economic woes. Activists said, “we don’t need freer markets, we need freer people with the power to solve our own problems.” They organized the first Really Really Free Markets as spaces with practical, political, and social purpose.They put resources directly into the hands of people who needed them. At the same time, they encouraged conversations about why our society has both so much waste and so much poverty.

👇Keep reading👇
https://www.msmpaperwv.com/news/reallyreallyfreemarket

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