MANNINGTON – Chuck Knisell drew a crowd when he rolled into the Marion County Labor Day Picnic at Mannington’s Hough Park last year. He was behind the wheel of his late dad Larry’s 1955 Chevrolet 3100 pickup. Vintage rides always generate an audience. It’s not super-fancy, Knisell, ...
MORGANTOWN – If you take in a gig by Aristotle Jones and his band, be prepared to settle in and be there for a while – not just for the music, but for all the Mountain State history and tales that will arrive with it. “Hey, man, I’m just trying to advance the mission,” Jones ...
Tomorrow is Earth Day: a celebration of our planet and a call-to-action to help take care of it. This often involves community-wide clean-up efforts and education outreach. The former tends to include things like litter pick-ups or recycling events. The latter usually includes reiterating ...
UNIONTOWN — Miners and mining labor leaders gathered with U.S. Department of Labor Acting Secretary Julie Su on Tuesday to celebrate DOL's final rule to protect miners from silica dust. “Today we're making it clear that no job should be a death sentence, that every single worker should ...
BY MIKE NOLTING A large coal mining operation south of Waynesburg, Pa., is not closing despite reports it was. Iron Senergy said in a written statement that the reports of the closure of the Cumberland Mine are false. Company officials did acknowledge there was a recent extended ...
West Virginia University’s Transformation Initiative recommended the merger of the Department of Mining Engineering with the Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering. In a press release, Iron Senergy, an independent energy company, opposes the substance and timing of this ...