The leading edge of flu season is nearing, and local clinics are stocking up on vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention each year tries to predict which strains of the influenza virus will strike Americans and orders vaccine supplies accordingly. This year's quadrivalent ...

LOWELL — Donors came from around the area Thursday afternoon to present assistance to the American Legion Post 750 in Lowell in efforts to rebuild its canteen. Cash contributions totaled more than $6,000, and the post is selling raffle tickets with a massive honor quilt as the prize. The ...

The hiring of Roger Coffman as the Washington County Health Department administrator was discussed during the Washington County Commission meeting Thursday morning. Bruce Kelbaugh, president of the Washington County Board of Health, met with commissioners and immediately wanted to go into ...

Local residents looking for something to do this weekend can take a self-guided tour to eight historic sites around Washington County. Sponsored by the Children's Toy and Doll Museum in Marietta, the Historical Driving Tour will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $10 per person, ...

The O'Neill Center will offer square dance lessons on Tuesdays beginning Sept. 24 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the basement. • For information: 740-373-3914. The St. Marys Community Concert Band will resume practices at the St. Marys Marina, St. Marys W.Va., on Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. Anyone is welcome ...

The fifth public meeting on the Marietta City Schools levy proposal attracted five people, at least four of whom were from the Colegate-Glendale neighborhood, who engaged Russ Garrison, the board of education vice president, and Frank Antill, the district treasurer, in a freewheeling discussion ...

Quietly huffing like small locomotives, with a bit of mechanical clank to go with it, steam-powered antique cars could be seen coming and going around Marietta this week. The Midwest Steam Car Tour is in town. The 18 vehicles on the tour, all Stanley Steamers, range in origin from 1904 to ...

Township trustees across Washington County are raising their eyebrows and discussing calendar adjustments as the recently-scrutinized county health leadership brings their liability into question. A meeting of the District Advisory Council, which is the county township trustee oversight of ...

Fiscal and directional oversight of the Washington County Health Department is set up by state law to allow those governed to have representation in how the funds are spent within state-mandated health services. Washington County townships and villages semi-annually contribute to the county ...

Friends of Lower Muskingum River will host a river clean-up for Make a Difference Day with Marietta College on Sept. 28 from 9 a.m. to noon. Attendees are asked to wear long pants and closed-toed shoes, and to carpool if possible as the parking lot on the west side of Devol's Dam is small. The ...

Using humor and art to shed light on a sensitive and often forgotten women's health issue, the local Zonta women's club is launching a new fundraiser. "It's very tongue in cheek, classy, but funny," said Desni Crock, current president of the Zonta Club of the Mid-Ohio Valley, as she explained ...

Competitive swim teams in Marietta have tried a number of arrangements for practice facilities since the Marietta Family YMCA pool closed in January, but the ad hoc situation for training has been hard on the teams. Ryan Zundell, coach of the Marietta Marlins, said his team has tried a ...

Growing pains have raised questions between county agencies on Davis Avenue as offices shift and renovations begin. Following a memo sent to the Washington County Board of Elections recently from Washington County Job and Family Services, the elections board met last week to not only conduct ...

Despite the warm weather, autumn is right around the corner and for some people, that means pumpkin spice drinks. For others, it means apple cider. Christa Hein, founder of "Bring the Farm to You," visited the Barlow Library Tuesday morning to demonstrate how to make apple cider. She brought ...

From staff reports A deceased woman was found early Tuesday morning at the Speedway on Seventh Street in Marietta. According to police reports, a Speedway employee found a person passed out behind a cooling unit beside the building around 6 a.m. Officers and the Marietta Fire Department ...

The Alzheimer's Association Walk to End Alzheimer's will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday at Tomlinson Park in Williamstown. The Williamstown Bridge will be closed from 10 a.m. to noon. Detours may be made across the interstate bridge. There may be delays along all intersections between Tomlinson ...

The 2019 Citywide Paving Project kicked off Monday in Marietta with the milling of several streets around the city. The first part of the project is to mill the streets, which removes layers of asphalt to level the paved surface. Local construction company Shelly & Sands was contracted ...

High school and middle school students from around the area visited Marietta College’s Dyson Baudo Recreation Center Monday evening for their annual Mid-Ohio Valley College Night. The college night gives area students the opportunity to talk to representatives from schools of which they ...

Two Washington County school districts advanced one grade, two fell one grade and two remained the same in the 2018-19 state report cards issued by the Ohio Department of Education last week. Belpre City and Warren Local districts went from a D to a C overall, Frontier Local Schools went from ...

VINCENT — With the concrete block structure of its new elementary school rising less than a mile away, the board of education for Warren Local Schools received an update Monday night on the district’s construction project. “We’re fully under way with the elementary building, and the ...