WATERFORD — Waterford High School junior Taylor Starkey enjoys uplifting others and expressing her creativity. This past fall, Starkey joined the school’s FFA Parliamentary Procedure team. It’s a career event through FFA that teaches students how to run business meetings based on the ...
WATERFORD — In all of her endeavors, Waterford High School junior Allison Huck is helping lead the way. Huck is vice president of Waterford’s FFA club. One activity, soil judging, has taken her across the country. Two different teams from Waterford, rural and urban soil, qualified to ...
WATERFORD — Waterford High School senior Chip Adams is honing his skills in the Spanish language and on the basketball court. Adams started studying Spanish in eighth grade in order to communicate better with friends. “We used to live in Texas and a lot of my friends spoke Spanish, ...
MARIETTA – A 17-year-old Boy Scout from Troop 207 has finished a sign he hopes will last 100 years. To obtain the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank in Scouts, one of the requirements is to complete a comprehensive service project by their 18th birthday. “I didn’t want to do just ...
Today marks the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, an iconic moment in American history. Not surprisingly, Marietta has connections to it. American colonists’ incessant complaints of “taxation without representation” against their British rulers came to a boiling point on Dec 16, 1773. Three years earlier, British parliament had repealed most of the despised Townshend Act taxes, but those imposed on their favorite beverage, tea, remained. Seeing no additional resolution, Americans resorted to a boycott that caused the East India Company warehouses in London to overflow with ...
The front lawn of the Armory at 241 Front St. has provided a convenient spot for Mariettans to gather since the building was constructed. It was true in 1914, and it is true today. If you look at enough old photos of Marietta, and I have looked at a few million, you will repeatedly run across photos of different people posing on the steps of the armory for a picture. The oldest photo of the steps that I have found was a picture shot during construction of the armory in 1914. A pair of workers were taking a break on what would become the top step while a parade for the Ringling ...
