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Events ¯ St. Mary Catholic School Lenten Fish Fry begins from 5-7 p.m. every Friday through March 22. Dine in, carry out and drive thru options available. ¯ Salem Township Volunteer Fire Department will hold a fish fry from 4-7 p.m. today at the Salem Fire Station, State Route 821, Lower ...

Local author Ron Johnston writing second book

A retired sports writer encouraged by the response to his first book is writing a second. Ron Johnston covered sports at The Marietta Times and The Parkersburg News and Sentinel, first as a stringer for The Times in 1988, then fulltime with The Sentinel in 1992 before fully retiring in 2020. ...

Marietta College plans shows

Two performances through Marietta College are scheduled Thursday and Friday. “Medea,” a play by the ancient Greek writer Euripedes, opens at 8 p.m. Friday at the Friedrich Theater. “Music to Love,” a performance by pianist Barbara Nissman, will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday at Peoples ...

Blues Weekend:Music comes to the River City

The 31st River City Blues Festival, presented by the Blues, Jazz & Folk Music Society of Marietta, will bring a variety of blues acts to the Lafayette Hotel on March 15-16. Formed in 1987, the BJFMS is an all-volunteer non-profit music society promoting blues, jazz and folk music in the ...

MOVP to present Death of A Salesman

An American classic comes to the stage at Mid-Ohio Valley Players Theatre this weekend and next as Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” is performed for a five-show run. The story revolves around Willy Loman, a failing salesman, who cannot understand how he failed to be happy and ...

Spring Sing set for Saturday at the Smoot

PARKERSBURG — The 10th annual Smoot Spring Sing will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Smoot Theatre on Fifth Street in Parkersburg. The free public show is sponsored by the Smoot Theatre Children’s Chorus that is composed of young singers from the area who have received invitations from ...