Members of Marietta City Council prepare for their regular meeting Thursday night. The group discussed Trick or Treat times, an ordinance to allow minors to play billiards and disturbing the peace ordinances. Read more from Thursday's meeting online and in the weekend edition of the Times. (Photo by Douglass Huxley)

Marietta City Council voted to adopt an ordinance that would remove the provision that makes it illegal for anyone over the age of 12 to wear a face mask during Halloween. They also voted to remove restrictions on pinball machines and minors playing billiards.

The Streets and Transportation Committee will hold a meeting to discuss traffic issues at Academy and Colgate Drives on Sept. 8 at 5:30 p.m. at the Armory on Front Street.

Council President Susan Vessels announced there will be a public meeting hosted by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency on Sept. 9 in the Marietta High School auditorium for DeepRock Disposal Solutions requesting a permit for a new Class I injection well in Marietta along the Ohio River.

“The present well is underscored not as a hazardous waste disposal well. It is not a municipal wastewater disposable well, and it is not a radioactive waste disposal well. Instead, it is a non-hazardous industrial waste disposal well,” Vessels said.

She said according to the permit, the well is intended for the commercial disposal of waste including, but not limited to: oil and gas exploration and production wastes, landfill leachate, industrial process wastewater, municipal wastewater treatment plant residuals, food and beverage manufacturing waste, groundwater and soil remediation fluids.

Read the full story from Thursday’s meeting in the weekend addition of the Times.