WHEELING – Less than 24 hours after a majority of Wheeling City Council members voted to recommend the closure of the city’s exempted homeless encampment, an official notice was posted at the camp alerting residents that the camp will be closed effective Dec. 1.

Wednesday’s notice, signed by Wheeling City Manager Robert Herron and dated Oct. 22, cited the city’s ordinance prohibiting camping on public property, which was approved by city council in 2023.

The remote site south of the entrance of the Peninsula Cemetery near Wheeling Creek – formerly the site of a city dog pound – had been exempted from the ban by the city manager and has been used as a centralized homeless refuge since last winter. The exempted camp had been relocated to the dog pound property from a previous location furt

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