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Picture This: Fair parade brings crowds to Front Street

MARIETTA – Local organizations, businesses and youth participants marched through Marietta on Saturday during the annual Washington County Fair Parade. Spectators lined the route as parade entries made their way through the city to the Washington County Fairgrounds during the fair’s opening day.

Tourist bureau chief retiring, interim named

PARKERSBURG - Leadership at the Greater Parkersburg Convention and Visitors Bureau is changing. Mark Lewis, president and CEO of the tourism bureau for the past 14 years, is retiring on Nov. 1. Autumn Henthorn, who has been with the bureau for nine years, will become interim ...

Man arrested during Acton appearance at Canfield Fair

CANFIELD — A man was arrested Sunday afternoon by Mahoning County Sheriff’s deputies at the Mahoning County Democratic Party tent at the Canfield Fair. Patrick Havas, 38, of Canfield, is at the Mahoning County jail on charges of felony assault and disorderly conduct, according to jail records. No bond was set, and he likely will appear in Mahoning County Court in Canfield on Tuesday because the court is closed for Labor Day. The Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office said Havas entered the tent around 2:30 p.m. Sunday and was using his cell phone to record a visit to the Canfield Fair ...

Last minute preparations before fair opens Saturday

MARIETTA – As the Washington County Fair opens Saturday morning, 4-H participants were getting their their animals and themselves ready Friday for the events ahead. 4-H member Regan Whitten has been showing livestock at the fair for five years, and shows steers and breeding heifers. She ...

Submissions open for annual cookbook contest

PARKERSBURG — As autumn approaches, so does the annual tradition of the Parkersburg News and Sentinel and Marietta Times holiday cookbook. The 72nd cookbook contest is calling cooks to explore the flavors of fall and the holidays with the theme Fall Foodies. Participants have from now ...

Views differ on water-field risks

MARIETTA - The City of Marietta has placed a proposal for groundwater monitoring wells on the back burner after determining they would provide little early warning of contamination from injection wells and could create another potential pathway into the city’s aquifer. Marietta Water Superintendent Steve Eddy said he discussed the monitoring wells with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency because one would have been close to an existing oil or natural gas production well. It was determined that contamination would likely be detected in the production well first. The monitoring ...