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Fort Frye awarded grants for STEM, hygiene needs

BEVERLY — Fort Frye Local Schools has received $12,000 in grants from the AEP Ohio Foundation to support career-technical education and student health needs. Fort Frye High School received a $10,000 STEM grant to purchase a programmable logic controller for its career-technical ...

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Annual Chili Cook-Off Beverly American Legion Post 389 will hold its 16th Annual Chili Cook-Off on Saturday during the American Legion Auxiliary Poker Run. The first bike out will be at 11 a.m. Last bike out will be at 1 p.m. The event is $10 per person. Food serving begins at 1 p.m. The Chili Cook-Off will be at 4 p.m. Live music on stage will be performed by Up To No Good from 3:30-6:30 p.m. The Ohio State v.s. Texas Longhorns game will be at 7:30 p.m. on the big screen TV. Smoked pulled pork dinner Graysville and Community Volunteer Fire Department will hold a smoked pulled pork ...

50th Ohio River Sternwheel Festival opens

The Ohio River Sternwheel Festival opened for its 50th year celebration on Friday evening. The festival continues this weekend, the schedule is: Saturday, Sept. 12 * 12 p.m. Marietta High School Wall of Sound * 1 p.m. Marietta High School Choir - Vocal Point * 2 p.m. The ...

Eastern Panhandle woman among many remembered at 9/11 Pentagon Memorial

ARLINGTON, Va. — Out of the 184 lives lost on 9/11, when American Airlines Flight 77 was hijacked by five members of the terrorist organization, al-Qaeda, and crashed into the Pentagon, at least one was an Eastern Panhandle resident. Shepherdstown resident Shelley Marshall was working in her office, on the southwest side of the Pentagon, when the Boeing 757-200 aircraft, flying from Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport, came crashing out of the sky. The day was to be her next-to-last as a budget analyst in the comptroller's office of the Defense ...

Two Fort Frye class of '26 graduates become United States Marines

Two local students, Wyatt Duskey and Aiden Offenberger, graduated from United States Marine Corps recruit training at Parris Island, S.C., on Aug. 21. Duskey and Offenberger graduated from Fort Frye High School as members of the Class of 2026. Just two days after their graduation on ...