Wind-Ridge News

A Consol Energy spokeswoman said on Thursday that no employees at a Greene County mine are sick after a miner died of a rare form of meningitis that's transmitted through saliva.

It didn't really matter that it was hot and humid; what was most important to organizers of the annual Jacktown Fair was that no rain fell on their parade.

A brief shower fell in the Wind Ridge area Tuesday evening, but ended just in time for the start of this year's edition of the Jacktown Fair.

Small community fairs were relatively commonplace when the Jacktown Fair got its start in 1866.

State agents say they have arrested a Greene County man for allegedly falsifying safety inspection reports at a coal mine in southwestern Pennsylvania.