Kudos to Marietta City Council and member, Harley Noland for taking the issue of brine disposal in Washington County seriously. A public meeting attended by 150 residents of Washington County was held by the Buckeye Environmental Network at Warren High School on July 17, 2025. The organizers ...

I recently attended a meeting hosted by the Buckeye Environmental Network at the Warren School in Vincent, Ohio. The topic of the meeting was wastewater injection wells. I live in downtown Marietta, on Washington Street, which is also State Route 7. Dozens of brine trucks drive past my house ...

In 2012, I was invited to a conference held by the Milton Friedman Institute in Indianapolis. The Institute invited 20 or so legislators from around the country to discuss school choice issues and how much progress had been made to that point. Like most conferences we heard from a variety of ...

As the City Council representative for Marietta’s 4th Ward, I’m writing to express my enthusiastic support for this year’s Harmar Days Festival, happening July 25–27 in Harmar Village. This festival is one of our community’s cherished summer traditions - full of live music, local ...

Sometimes it takes a village to help Marietta in Bloom continue to provide eight gardens to be enjoyed by others. This past April with the help of the City of Marietta, Oriana House and our members, we were able to mulch all gardens. And again in June with the help of Oriana House, Fred ...

The Warren Township trailer has been vandalized for a second time and is at risk for being removed once again. The first time was due to contamination from someone’s bathroom remodeling. Pieces of the bathtub, rotten flooring, and pieces of concrete were placed in the trailer, which ...