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Picture This: A Fresh Coat of Paint

Artsbridge and the City of Belpre are collaborating with students of Belpre High School art teacher Chad Stevens to paint a mural on a wall along Campus Drive leading to the high school. Artsbridge Executive Director Lyndsay Dennis, who is also a member of Belpre City Council, said the mural ...

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Baked steak dinner VFW Post #5108 will hold a baked steak dinner from 5-7 p.m. today at the Post Home, 319 Pike St., Marietta. A meal is $15 per person and includes baked steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans and rolls. Call 740-374-9038 for more information or for carry-out. 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 ...

Local events

Meetings ¯ Washington County Family & Children First Council will meet at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 16, at the Washington County E.O.C. office, 204 Davis Avenue, Suite C. For more information, call 740-376-7081. ¯ The Washington State College of Ohio Board of Trustees will hold its monthly meeting at 4 p.m. Sept. 21, in room H108 of the Main Building. ¯ Palmer Township will hold meetings at 7 p.m. Oct. 5, Nov. 2 and Dec. 7, at the Palmer Community Building, 7153 State Route 676, in Palmer Square. ¯ The Belpre Township trustees will meet at 6 p.m. the first Monday of the month at 335 ...

Voices of Flight 93 still echo

SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa. — Turning off State Highway 30 near Shanksville, Pa., into the Flight 93 Memorial site does not prepare one for the solemnity of the place or the raw emotions that rise when walking through the visitor’s center. Within that building, visitors can listen to recorded ...

Adamses observe 25th anniversary of Sept. 11

Twenty-five years have passed since Parkersburg native Mary Lou Hague was killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack at the World Trade Center in New York City. Liza Adams, her mother, remembers everything about the day: speaking to her daughter as she tried to evacuate the building ...

Minnites remember witnessing 9/11 from LaGuardia

PARKERSBURG –– Kristin and Jason Minnite were seated aboard a U.S. Air commuter plane at LaGuardia Airport, waiting to return home from a trip to New York City, when they saw smoke rising from the World Trade Center. Their plane was fifth in line for takeoff on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, according to an account published the next day in The Parkersburg Sentinel. The Minnites had no way of knowing then that their flight would not leave or that the attack would reshape the nation. The couple had traveled to New York with Jason’s sister, Marlene Colombo, and attended a Michael ...