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MOV Climate Corner: Ohio Valley has a radiation problem

During the 60s, I remember the government conducted Civil Defense drills in my school. We were told to climb under our school desks, duck down, and cover our heads. We might have survived a bomb blast but the radioactive fallout could not be stopped. The nuclear disasters at Three-Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima have taught us that the radiation emitted during an accident or bombing will travel across the planet via prevailing winds and the jet stream and distribute some radiation to all of us. Decades later, while pursuing my masters degree, I had the opportunity to visit Los ...

60th Wedding Anniversary

Neil and Connie Huck will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on Thursday, January 16. They were married on January 16, 1965 at St. Bernard Catholic Church, Beverly, OH by the Right Reverend Ambrose Schilling. They are the proud parents of six children. Tamara Haring (friend Darrell ...

Aiming for your goals and becoming the best version of yourself

Matt Emmons was leading the 3-position shooting competition in the 2014 Summer Olympic Games when he accidentally cross-fired, hitting the wrong target on his final shot. Although Emmons had nailed the bullseye, he scored a zero and finished 8th in the competition because he hit another shooter’s target. You should aim for your own goals. In the late 1960s, college football wasn’t very integrated. When Ernest Cook was offered a football scholarship to Florida State University, threats were made about what would happen if the Black man came to Tallahassee to play. Frightened, Cook ...

Winter floods must have been miserable

Flooding in Marietta is nothing new, Marietta has been going under water from time to time as long as people have lived here. When those from the Ohio Company first selected the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers as the place to build a new city it would have seemed they would have had to be aware that from time-to-time the whole town would be covered by several feet of churning brown muck that would certainly make everyone wish they had located on higher ground. They had gotten advice from Thomas Hutchins, geographer of the United States, that the river banks in the area ...

Wm H. Styer, Prescription Druggist

Mariettan Ross Thomas showed me an old apothecary bottle and said, “See what you can find out about it.” The quart-size glass bottle has a cork and a label: “Wm H. Styer, Prescription Druggist, 240 Front Street, Marietta, Ohio.” Collecting old bottles is popular. There is a ...

Birth

Dawson James Janus was born Nov. 12, 2024, to parents Brey and Zak Janus of Parkersburg, WV. He was born at 8:01 a.m. at Marietta Memorial Hospital weighing 6 pounds, 2 ounces, measuring 18.5 inches. Grandparents are Bryan and Linda Mays of Bloomingdale, OH and Jeff and Marcy Janus of Kent, ...