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Back to school safety is a community responsibility

As we enter the new school year, it is crucial for everyone in our community – students, parents and all who travel during peak traffic hours – to remember the importance of obeying speed limits, especially in areas heavily traveled by students. At a recent Police and Fire Committee meeting, I presented data, courtesy of the Marietta Police Department, that highlights ongoing concerns with speeding in our city, particularly in areas like Davis Avenue, where many students drive and walk. Traffic enforcement data from January 2023 to the present shows that officers logged 596 screens ...

Thank you to sponsors

Little Muskingum Grange #2621 wishes to thank the sponsors of their fourth annual catfish tournament and other events of the grange. We are also very appreciative for all those who showed up to fish and support us. We also wish to thank Bob Echart for allowing our organization to use his dock area for sign up and weigh-ins. We will have the fifth annual tournament the Saturday after Memorial Weekend so put this date in your 2025 calendar! The grange, founded in 1867, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, fraternal organization that advocates for rural America and agriculture. The grange has a ...

A Great Race Thank You!

The news that Marietta was chosen as the best overnight stop during this year’s Great Race makes me proud, but not surprised. The first Year Team Pioneer competed in the Great Race was 2012, that year the race went around the Great Lakes. It was a wonderful experience. Other years were different routes such as: Route 66 from Missouri to California and The Lincoln Highway from The Golden Gate Bridge to Iowa. Perhaps you remember the daily updates that aired on WMOA. Every Great Race focused on what I will call Traditional Americana. We stayed off the interstates and away from the big ...

Special thanks to Marietta Mobility

Sometimes a person can be overwhelmed by the negative news and events on the local and national scene. I wanted to take to take a moment to publicly thank a local business for their generosity. I work for the Driver Rehabilitation Program at Marietta Memorial Hospital as a Certified Driver Rehabilitation Program. We serve individuals in our region whose ability to drive is complicated by a congenital or acquired disability. Our program was recently gifted next level adaptive driving controls for our training vehicle. These controls were donated by Canadian owned Howell ...

Who is in the wrong?

I was shocked, but also saddened to read the Letter to the Editor in Monday’s paper from a fellow retired educator. He complained that the statistics of the segregated Negro Leagues were blended in with those of Major League Baseball when it was all white. He claims that this was an attempt to “erase the past and cancel what was done.” We cannot erase the horrible stain of slavery nor of segregation, but when possible, we can do what we can to correct it and educate people about our past. Is it not fair to at least now integrate what was once segregated, as we try to do as a ...

Scrutinize Project 2025

For the past few days, I have listened to the speakers at the Republican National Convention. They claim they want to unify our country. While this sounds good, my concern with this proposal is what does it mean to “unite” a country? Does Unity mean to control individuals to the point where there is no diversity of ideas, value or lifestyles. Choices in such as “united” country would resemble other authoritarian dictatorships such as Communist China, Russia or North Korea. If you were to read what is proposed with Project 2025, a nine hundred plus document written by the ...