By SCOTT McCLOSKEY Staff Writer POWHATAN POINT — Murray Energy tow boat pilot Tyler Delong says navigating barges on the Ohio River is a way of life. While he has only been a boat pilot for nearly a year, he says moving and connecting mainly coal-filled barges between Powhatan Point ...
WHEELING — The Upper Ohio Valley Building and Construction Trades Council is a regional labor organization that is comprised of 16 local construction labor unions that supply skilled and well-trained tradespersons for work in the construction industry. The council would like you to know more about what the council is, what it does and how it benefits local economies in the Upper Ohio Valley. Each of the 16 local construction unions affiliated with the council maintains an extensive and rigorous apprenticeship training program. The purpose for these training programs is to ...
By JOSELYN KING Staff Writer TRIADELPHIA — Howard and Seth Posin say Interstate 70 has brought a lot more traffic from Pennsylvania to Howard’s Diamond Center since they moved their store from downtown Wheeling to The Highlands. They believe the abundance of restaurants there keeps ...
By JOSELYN KING Staff Writer WHEELING — An Ohio Valley trades group believes in “building efficiency by striving together.” Project BEST, established in 1971, seeks to facilitate cooperation between construction labor and management by helping both sides to work together to ...
By DYLAN McKENZIE Staff Writer WHEELING — When most people go to work, they just hope for the day to be over quickly so they can get home and relax after a hard day’s work. But the men and women who serve on police and fire departments wish for an uneventful day, yet every day they ...
By SHELLEY HANSON Staff Writer MARTINS FERRY — They dig muddy holes to reach broken sewer and waterlines, sling our nasty, stinky garbage into packers and rescue children and seniors from horrible living conditions. Those are just a few of the dirty jobs — sewage/street department ...
