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Nationwide, the industry is responsible for 5.6% of total U.S. employment and generates an enormous amount of economic benefits across the country. In Ohio, it provides 375,000 direct and 296,000 indirect jobs, supports over $24.7 billion in labor, and contributes $58.7 billion to our gross domestic product. However, our industry’s future is uncertain without the proper policies in place. Federal regulations continue to threaten our viability through ever-expanding, non-scientifically based EPA regulations. Foreign government-subsidized competition continues to tilt the playing ...

Dear Editor

Monday, September 26, intelligent NASA experts and scientists, engineers at Johns Hopkins University slammed a golf cart-sized object into an asteroid far from earth. It was a test to see if humans might change the direction of an asteroid. Might one be averted from slamming into earth in the future? It was an exercise of good intentions conducted by intelligent Americans. Can the planet be saved from total devastation - no matter when that threat comes? On the same day, Vladimir of Russia threatens the existence of the earth with nuclear war since his inept military cannot conquer ...

Federal regulations

The importance of the natural gas and oil industry has never been more evident. The war in Ukraine, inflation, and skyrocketing energy prices have demonstrated how essential the industry is to our daily lives. Nationwide, the industry is responsible for 5.6% of total U.S. employment and generates an enormous amount of economic benefits across the country. In Ohio, it provides 375,000 direct and 296,000 indirect jobs, supports over $24.7 billion in labor, and contributes $58.7 billion to our gross domestic product. However, our industry’s future is uncertain without the proper ...

The Beverly-Center Elementary’s 2nd annual Food Truck Fall Festival was a HUGE success!

We have grown in size from last year and it was absolutely amazing! We loved welcoming more vendors this year and we hope to continue to see this event grow. We appreciate everyone that came out to support this event and our school. This fundraiser would not have been possible without the support of our community, our school, and our PTO members. The Beverly-Center Elementary would like to thank the following people and organizations for their contributions: Our event sponsors: IBEW Local 972 and NECA OH-WV Valley Chapters, Washington Electric Cooperative Our entertainment: The ...

Gorbachev and his legacy

Mihail Gorbachev has been referred to as the Last Soviet Leader, who was responsible for tearing down The Berlin Wall. Mihail Gorbachev introduced Glaznost (looking outward) and Perestroika (rebuilding) to than Soviet Union. It seemed to have awaken people’s consciousness to the world outside of Soviet Union. He had stated that he wanted to make Russia a normal civilized society. Many of us Americans still remember our late President Reagan saying to the General Secretary of Soviet Union “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down the Wall.”(Google the speech) On November 6. When Berlin Wall ...

Sternwheel Festival laughs

There is always some fun to experience at Marietta’s biggest party, the Sternwheel Festival. It is always fun to spot friends one doesn’t see often, yet farther up Front Street is where the biggest laughs in my group happened. The MAGApublican political party is displaying a banner “Seeking Truth Defending Liberty.” What a joke. This is the group who claim to be law and order while their candidate for U.S. Senate from Ohio calls the traitors who tried to overthrow democracy “patriots.” The same guy defends his traitorous leader (whom he once vehemently opposed) for ...