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Update: MCS Cohort 1 students will be in buildings Monday

UPDATE: Marietta City Schools Superintendent Will Hampton said Cohort 1 students will be in buildings Monday, while Cohort 2 students will attend classes remotely next week. Additional cases confirmed with students and staff have necessitated the shift. Marietta City Schools COVID-19 Dashboardnull See Friday's edition of the Times for the full story. ___ Original story 2:55 p.m.: Marietta City Schools Superintendent Will Hampton has confirmed today the district will again separate students next week. The announcement comes on the heals of increased confirmed cases of ...

DeWine: Ohio ramping up mask rules

Warning shots were fired Wednesday evening from the pulpit of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. DeWine’s coronavirus briefing opened with hope for developments of a vaccine, but within a minute, his warning hinged on the third wave of infection plaguing Ohioans. “We’re now seeing a third spike, but this time things are much different,” said DeWine. “This surge is much more intense, widespread and dangerous.” He compared 86 Ohioan deaths in the first week of October due to the coronavirus with the 104 deaths of Ohioans in the first week in November. Then the governor tightened the ...

Ohio National Guard administers free COVID-19 test

Nearly 200 local residents were administered a free coronavirus test Wednesday in Marietta. Administered by the Ohio National Guard, this was the second public drive-thru and walk-up testing held at the corner of Third and Butler streets. Tom Perry, Marietta College’s vice president for ...

Mask order tightened; warning to restaurants, bars and gyms

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has issued a more strict mask order today, placing burden of enforcement on business owners for customers' compliance. Each business is now required to post signage at entrances requiring facial covering and is "responsible to ensure customers and employees are wearing masks" said the governor. Along with the order announcement, DeWine said a new Retail Compliance Unit within the Bureau of Workers' Compensation has been created to inspect compliance. A first violation will net a business a written warning. The second violation closes a business for up to 24 ...

Free COVID-19 testing sites scheduled around area

Free COVID-19 testing will be held in various places around the region as positive cases continue to rise. A pop-up testing clinic will be open to the public Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Marietta College. “The Ohio National Guard is having it, it’s just on our campus,” ...

Delegate-elect Conley contracts COVID-19

VIENNA — A Vienna City Councilman recently elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates confirmed on social media that he has been diagnosed with COVID-19. Roger Conley, who was elected to one of the three District 10 House seats last week, said in a Facebook post Sunday that he was home after being hospitalized with the novel coronavirus. “The care I received at Camden-Clark was phenomenal,” he said. “I am very thankful that I was able to receive the same experimental drugs given to President Trump, as well as a plasma infusion. The turnaround was amazing.” A WVU ...