WHEELING – Members of Wheeling City Council heard backlash Tuesday night about the closure of the city’s homeless encampment, which earlier in the day was vacated and cleared of everything left behind.

After awakening to a heavy blanket of snow from an overnight winter storm, volunteers and representatives of local social service agencies on Tuesday morning continued to assist the last remaining individuals at the camp on city Operations Department property Industrial Drive near the Peninsula Cemetery that for nearly two years had served as a place where the homeless were permitted to stay in tents.

The city chose to close the site at 5 p.m. on Monday after giving six weeks notice, describing the location that had been exempted from the city’s new camping ban as a “failure.”

While no on

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