Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! This week I want to talk about Tree-of-Heaven (Ailanthus altissima), an invasive species from Asia. It has been in the news lately because it is a major host plant of the spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula). First detected in Pennsylvania in ...
With love and joy, Stephanie Elizabeth Rector and Joey Dean Thomas announce their engagement and upcoming marriage. The bride to be is the daughter of the late Christopher Lowe. She was born and raised in Marietta and is a 2003 graduate of Marietta Senior High School. The prospective ...
The Lafayette Hotel has served as a hotel, meeting spot and a place to hold celebrations for more than a century. It’s been through many floods and has served for nearly a half of a century as the host location of the Ohio River Sternwheel Festival. The location made a great deal of ...
VINCENT — Samantha Blaney, 17, a senior at Warren High School, is not only devoted to her academics, with a 4.0 GPA, but also a leader. Blaney is the President of the National Honor Society and the Vice President of the Spanish Honor Society at Warren. She maintains membership with the ...
Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners. Cool, fall temperatures will prevail this week as Halloween is next Thursday and we say goodbye to October. Did you know October is National Apple Month? No matter if you use apples for baking pies, fresh eating or processing into apple butter or cider, there are dozens of commercial varieties to choose from with a wide range of flavors and colors. Over 7,500 apple varieties are grown worldwide and easily over 100 cultivars are grown commercially here in the United States. There definitely is an apple for every taste and use. My favorite ...
If you think Washington County is big now, you should have been around in 1788; it was huge. One of the first orders of business after the establishment of the Northwest Territory was to set up counties within the new lands. As the first county in the Northwest Territory and future state of Ohio, Washington County filled nearly the entire eastern part of the land that would become the state. The borders were outlined in a proclamation by Arthur St. Clair in July 1788. “Beginning on the bank of the Ohio River where the western boundary line of Pennsylvania crosses it, and running ...
