As a member of the bipartisan Congressional Families Cancer Prevention Program of the Prevent Cancer Foundation, I want to share the following information as we observe National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. More than 145,000 Americans will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer and an ...
When most of us think of the dangers faced by law enforcement officers in the line of duty, we are imagining the kind of violence that comes from them being first responders. Most of us do not think of writing traffic tickets or directing traffic as times of extreme danger for ...
Two horses in the area are now back in good health and eating regularly thanks to the attention of someone who noticed they were neglected and did something about it. Connie Abbott—a long-time horse rescuer—sounded the alarm when she saw three underfed horses. The third, sadly, didn’t ...
If slow and steady wins the race, the folks at the Washington County Common Pleas Drug Court are working toward victory for the participants who have chosen the program. It appears as though great care has gone into avoiding a push to simply fill the program quickly, which might have made for ...
Local residents may remember that while serving as Ohio’s attorney general, Mike DeWine said of the drug abuse epidemic: “We can’t arrest our way out of this.” Now, DeWine is governor and he wants to put the state’s money where his mouth is — with a well thought-out, comprehensive ...
Monday, April 15 is the deadline for filing and paying 2018 Marietta City Income Tax and first quarter of your 2019 Declaration of Estimated Tax. The 2018 rate of 1.7 percent on all earned income applies to all individuals 18 years of age and older who live and/or work in the City of ...
Give Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine credit for recognizing something that all too many officials in state capitals throughout the nation do not. In his words, spoken last week in St. Clairsville: “All wisdom does not reside in Columbus, Ohio.” DeWine was in Belmont County to talk with local ...
Frontier High School graduate Travis Flores has been an inspiration to many here in the Mid-Ohio Valley; and his own message may serve him well during a new challenge for him: “Never give up on your dreams.” Cystic fibrosis has shaped Flores’ life to a great degree, but not taken away ...
Monroe County commissioners have been spending beyond their means for three years, according to county Treasurer Taylor Abbott earlier this week. He advised big-ticket expenditures should be reconsidered. Abbott’s report was sobering. During the three years from 2016-18, the county spent ...
The Outreach Board, on behalf of the Marietta Community Food Pantry, would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to The Marietta Times and WMOA for their support of the “Send Help” program this past holiday season. Both media outlets made it possible for the Marietta Community Food Pantry to ...
Price estimates to renovate two potential sites for a newly-merged Washington County agency came in last week and there were a lot of zeros. Pickering Associates, an architecture and engineering firm, determined that the cost for the renovation of the Gilman Avenue site currently housing Job ...
The writer of the editorial on March 12 concerning Sherrod Brown, seems to believe that the majority of Americans support Republicans. While it’s true they do in southeastern Ohio, most voters in this country are leaning to the left, and if it weren’t for extreme gerrymandering, most ...
When Wally Kandel was honored Monday as the Gabe Zide Citizen of the Year by the Marietta Area Chamber of Commerce, he had a message that should reach well beyond those who were in attendance. Every Mid-Ohio Valley resident should take it to heart. Kandel is senior vice president and Marietta ...
Commissioners, please reconsider your refusal to apply for funding for green space in our county. Passing up the opportunity to apply for Clean Ohio Funds to fund a large track of land in western Washington County is selling our citizens short. Seventy-five percent of the money needed would ...
I would like to thank the following businesses, vendors and volunteers for the success of the Pleasants County 2019 Critter Bash. We couldn’t have done it without you. ¯ American Legion Post 159 (dance hall) ¯ Carl Reynolds (door prize giveaways) ¯ St. Marys Tire (oil change) ¯ ...
Democrats across the country should be worried about 2020, if U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, is not considered liberal enough to be a viable candidate for the presidency, by the party’s current powers that be. At one point, Brown had what most would consider well-established credentials as ...
Good news seems rare enough these days that when “an absolute miracle” occurs, it ought to be noticed. That is how Humboldt County, Calif. Sheriff William Honsal summed up the conclusion of a frantic search a couple of weekends ago. It seems that on a Friday afternoon, Leia Carrico, 8, ...
His heart felt as if it would pound out of his chest, the 15-year-old boy told a resource officer at Edison Local High School in Jefferson County last week. The deputy called for an ambulance to take the student to a hospital. Two other boys, one 14 and the other 15, experienced similar ...
Students at Putnam Elementary School are learning a lesson about which we could all use a reminder: Usually when you help someone else, you get more back for yourself. In this case, the second-graders in Melissa Levelle’s and Donna Kubisik’s classrooms were raising money for the Memorial ...
It’s no easy task to care for hundreds of animals each day, many of whom may be scared to be in a shelter and away from the home they’ve had for many years. It’s a job many of us might not be able to handle. But it’s something the staff and the board at the Humane Society of the Ohio ...