MARIETTA — Marietta City Council brought back and approved a revocable license agreement involving Knox Park on Thursday before adopting a separate easement measure for adjoining property. Both passed by 4-3 votes. Councilman Jon Grimm moved to reconsider Resolution 19, which authorizes ...
BELPRE — The Belpre City Schools Board of Education advanced plans for a new school for grades 6-12 on Thursday, authorizing the project’s design team to begin preparing construction documents. The unanimous vote approved design development submissions to the state and authorized the ...
BELPRE – Belpre High School senior Sara Richmond has a dream of practicing disability law and being a front ensemble director for a band. Richmond, who is a straight A student, is the daughter of Gabriel and Carrie Richmond. At Belpre High School, she is involved in the handbell choir as ...
Washington County Harvest of Hope Washington County Harvest of Hope will celebrate its 20th anniversary from 1-4 p.m. Sunday at Masonic Park in Devola, featuring live music with Track 9, pulled pork BBQ from The Boathouse, games, OSU themed outdoor grill and a lottery board raffle and a 50/50 drawing. Advance tickets are $20 for adults, $12 for children ages 6-12 and free for children under 5. Adult tickets are $25 on the day of the event. Advance tickets are available at the Marietta Community Foundation and you may pay with cash, check or online at www.wchoh.org. For more ...
MORGANTOWN – Matthew L. Harvey didn’t parse words during his remarks Thursday. “The people are not misguided,” he said. “They are not ‘accidental’ criminals. They are predators.” Harvey, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia, was speaking generally on Thursday about a conduit of one-way commerce lethally linking the Motor City of Detroit to the Mountain State of West Virginia. Specifically, though, he was at the Erickson Alumni Center of the state’s flagship university on the rainy morning to announce the takedown of an extensive drug ...
In his book, Don’t Let the Jerks Get the Best of You, Dr. Paul Meier defines a jerk as “someone who selfishly uses or abuses other human beings, animals, or the environment.” Dr. Meier calculates that approximately 40% of the population qualify as 1st Degree Jerks. They’re good people who do unto others as they would have others do to them but, on occasion, selfish behaviors creep through despite their best intentions. Another 40% of the population ranks as 2nd Degree Jerks, people who are sometimes intentionally selfish. These folks manipulate and control others to their own ...
