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¯ The Reno Area Water and Sewer District Board will hold their regularly scheduled meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, at the Reno Water Office, 170 Mount Tom Road. The public is welcome. ¯ The Learning, Instruction and Assessment Committee of the Warren Local Board of Education will meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, at Warren High School, Rooms 1710/1711, 130 Warrior Drive, Vincent. ¯ The Operations Committee of the Warren Local Board of Education will meet at 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, at Warren High School, Rooms 1710/1711, 130 Warrior Drive, Vincent. ¯ The regular monthly ...

Relay for Life teams raising money in many ways

From staff reports BELPRE — Team members have been raising money for the 2024 Relay for Life of Washington County since last fall, but those efforts will continue during Saturday’s event. In addition to the Sips Coffee, Rhododendron Ice Cream and Chick-fil-A food trucks that will be set up in Civitan Park for the event, some teams will have edible items for attendees to enjoy. The Cancer Crush Team will be selling brats, Slawsa and hot dogs, while the Sorelle di Lotta team will have tacos in a bag and fruit and Marietta Memorial Hospital will offer watermelons. Folks can get ...

Songwriter Series to feature ‘Two Wharffs and a Moon’

From staff reports The Songwriter Series,with host and songwriter Moon Mullen, will welcome father and son songwriters Joe Wharff and Jack Wharff to the Lafayette Hotel at 8 p.m. Friday to benefit the Humane Society of the Ohio Valley. The “Two Wharffs & a Moon” session is the sixth in the Songwriter Series held in the Gun Room at the hotel, 101 Front St. in Marietta. “The Songwriter-in-the-Round is my favorite way of highlighting the craft of songwriting,” Mullen said. With each artist sharing a song and the story behind it, the audience gets to understand the ...

Revolutionary War Patriots of the Northwest Territory memorial service to be May 23

Marietta Chapter’s Revolutionary War Patriots of the Northwest Territory Memorial Service will be held at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, May 23, at Mound Cemetery, Fifth and Scammel streets, Marietta, Marietta Chapter Historian Scott Britton’s Keynote Address will discuss Rufus Putnam and his cousin Israel Putnam’s trip to Florida in 1773. There, Putnam surveyed and chartered lands along the Mississippi River, which the Crown was going to grant to veterans of the French and Indian War in lieu of payment for their service. The memorial service, wreath presentations and musket salute will ...

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Meetings ¯ The Learning, Instruction and Assessment Committee of the Warren Local Board of Education will meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, at Warren High School, Rooms 1710/1711, 130 Warrior Drive, Vincent. ¯ The Operations Committee of the Warren Local Board of Education will meet at 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, at Warren High School, Rooms 1710/1711, 130 Warrior Drive, Vincent. ¯ The regular monthly meeting of the Warren Local Board of Education will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, at Warren High School, Rooms 1710/1711,130 Warrior Drive, Vincent. ¯ The Barlow Township ...