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Marietta remembrance ceremony honors 25th anniversary of 9/11

MARIETTA – A morning ceremony for the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, organized by local veterans groups, took place Friday morning. The event featured keynote speaker David Brown, adjunct and treasurer of DAV Chapter 52, and a silent procession from Reno to Marietta. ...

Lawsuit filed over alleged contamination from Chemours landfill

CHARLESTON – A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Washington, W.Va., residents who say their property was contaminated by hazardous materials – including forever chemicals – from a landfill used by Chemours. Filed Sept. 4 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, the complaint alleges that hazardous chemicals including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS, were released from the landfill and migrated through surrounding soil, groundwater and other pathways, according to a release from R. Booth Goodwin II, one ...

Make God happy, don't be a jerk

Tehran’s daily newspaper, Mardomsalari, reported in September 2004 on the trial of a man accused of beating his wife. The court ordered the man to stop beating his wife, but the woman later claimed that she would have been happy with an order limiting the beatings to only one per week. “Beating is a part of his nature,” she said, “and he can’t help it.” The man said, “If I do not beat her, she will not be scared enough to obey me.” What a jerk! Chuck Colson told the story of Marleen, a Christian woman who sought help from her preacher because her husband was abusing her. ...

Cracking the code: Facts and truth are important

During my corporate life, the company I worked for was part of a crew doing a workover on a gas well. Suddenly we hit something hard, shallower than it should have. Whatever it was, we couldn’t get any deeper. Everything stopped while we all tried to determine what was going on. The first guess was our measurement was off or the pipe tally was wrong. Well records and history were reviewed. Phone calls were made to confirm, with well records at the corporate office. An entire morning was wasted trying to solve the problem. I was standing on the rig floor when one of the new rig hands ...

Marietta College hosts AmeriCorps 9/11 day event

MARIETTA – Marietta College hosted an AmeriCops Vista event where students, faculty and community members could sign cards thanking veterans, first responders, and active military members for their service on Friday afternoon. This was in conjunction with creating “care packages” full ...