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“Come to me you who are weary and burdened”

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In this election season every community is worried because the old ways do not work anymore. And in their anxiety, communities are tempted to all kinds of controlling regulations and figure out ways to be exclusive in order to keep out the “others.” Fear is all around us, a fear that keeps being fed by the fearful. Fear of the weather, of terrorism, of losing our nation as we know it. We fear for our kids’ futures, our health. All kinds of manipulating fears turn us into a worried, even paranoid society. But the Christian church speaks another word in such an environment. It is ...

Engagement

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Thomas Bean and Amy Bean, and Nina Butcher, are proud to announce the engagement of their daughter, Miranda Bean to Hunter Lyons. Miranda is a 2016 graduate of Marietta High School and a graduate of Ohio State where she is currently working as a clinical research coordinator at the Ohio ...

Shipbuilding in Marietta

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They built ocean-going vessels here, 600 miles away from any ocean. How could that be? It’s what I call a Marietta-ism: a combination of amazing skills, creativity, entrepreneurial spirit and river access. Ships were built here, floated down to the Gulf of Mexico and sailed out into the ...

Drought Stress and Trees

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Hello Mid-Ohio Valley gardeners and farmers! Dry conditions continue as we get a short, yet sweet taste of cool fall weather. After a record low temperature of 46 degrees F Wednesday night, we are looking at seven days in a row of 90 degree heat. Since 1900, West Virginia has experienced several noteworthy droughts, including 1904, 1930–31, 1941, 1954, 1966, and 1988. During the drought of 1930–31, nearly 100% of the Mountain State experienced what currently would be referred to as D4, or “exceptional drought,” for eight months. More than 60% of West Virginia is currently in ...

Racers are already a step ahead of you

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If you are reading this late Saturday morning, your friends, family and neighbors may already be one step ahead of you. Many of them are as much as 30,000 steps ahead of you because they have already competed in and completed the News and Sentinel Half Marathon or Two-Mile race. The newspaper has been the lead sponsor of the race since 2002. We took a two-year break during COVID, which means that this was the 21st race that I have worked on. That’s more than 300 miles of racing. That’s a lot of miles, and a lot of people, running and walking thousands of miles. Hundreds of ...

So, what happens if I don’t vote?

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“It doesn’t matter anyway”, “What’s one Vote?”. These comments are often heard from people who choose not to vote. The idea that one vote can’t possibly have an effect is a common misconception. In fact, throughout our history, there have been very close votes that made the difference in the direction taken by America. In 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes lost the popular vote, but won the electoral college by a single vote. In 1960, JFK won the popular vote by less than 120,000 out of 68.8 million votes cast. In 2000, the Al Gore and George Bush race was determined an even race ...