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The Delta Queen is a visitor missed by many

Last weekend Marietta was treated to a wide-variety of sternwheelers that stopped by town to visit for a while and enjoy the Ohio River Sternwheel Festival. One sternwheeler that has not paid a visit to our levee in a long time is the Delta Queen. She can’t, she hasn’t visited anywhere since 2008. I have always had a special place in my heart for the old boat. A tiny photo of it was the first photo that I had published anywhere when it was featured on the front page of Marietta High School newspaper “The Original” in the mid 1970s. The Delta Queen started life not on ...

Do you ever feel like a kidney?

Consider your kidney. Most folks have two, each bean-shaped and about the size of a fist. The kidney’s lie near the spine, their top protected by the 11th and 12th rib and bottom extending a little below the rib cage. Each kidney contains about a million nephrons, microscopic fibers that filter blood. Human kidneys clean approximately 54 gallons of blood each day or, said another way, they process all the blood in the body about 40 times per day. Working with the endocrine system, the kidneys help regulate blood pressure and the concentration of electrolytes and pH (acid/base) balance ...

September of 1890 was a busy time in Marietta

Three stories dominated the front page of the The Marietta Times on Sept. 25, 1890. All three would have been big stories for Marietta regardless of what year they occurred. The lead story was one about a “BIG GAS WELL” being drilled near Marietta. A large oil boom was starting and the article described in detail the success of a new well being drilled near Indian Run. Indian Run Road is a continuation of Westview Avenue on the west side of the Muskingum. “Before The Times representative came within a half mile of the spot the roaring could be plainly heard. The sand was ...

Watching the clock: Frontier grad finds success with busy schedule

NEW MATAMORAS — Lessons in time management Ethan Snyder learned at Frontier High School will serve him well at Marietta College. Snyder ranked 16th in his class and completed the Ohio Academic Diploma with honors. At the same time, he was on the school football and basketball teams and ...

Marietta Times of 1870 was heavy on politics

“With this number we begin the Seventh Volume of The Marietta Times. The writer came here in September 1864, six years ago. “Friends!, who wish us well, bear one word in perfect seriousness. We want Five Hundred subscribers besides what we have already. Those can be obtained with a little judicious effort, at once. — Why not make the trial? Say that two hundred and fifty of our subscribers got two hundred additional names, for one year, with the money, — the thing is done. And this is the best way it can be accomplished. We are overweight now, and it is out of our power to go ...

Backyard Gardener: Drought management

WVU Extension is hosting a “Drought Management” educational workshop on the ongoing drought here in the Mid-Ohio Valley next Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 6 p.m. at the Jackson County Regional Livestock Market in Ripley. The market is located at 3907 Cedar Lakes Road. The meeting is a cooperative effort of WVU Extension, Farm Service Agency, WV Conservation Districts, The Natural Resource Conservation Service and Jackson County Regional Livestock Market. The Mid-Ohio Valley is struggling with drought conditions and feed shortages that are a result of prolonged dry weather. Due to the ...