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Serving those who serve us

The Legacy of Honor, a 501c3 organization whose mission is to serve our active military, veterans, first responders and their families in whatever way is needed is pleased to provide information onveterans and their families who were assisted over this Memorial Day weekend. Marty and Heather Briggs and among their daughters is Chelsea are being assisted this week by volunteers of Legacy of Honor and some very special local businesses who came alongside to assist in the project. Chelsea was born with medical issues that caused her to struggle most of her life but even ...

Was it an accident or a lesson?

I would like to share with you an opportunity that awakened consciousness. Once again, my older sister, Vera, her husband Olgerts and I traveled to Latvia. Latvia is the country of our birth. America is the country that has adopted us and among other things, America is the country that has given me among many other blessing an opportunity to share with you a small slice of our trip to Latvia. There are a number of things that we much enjoyed, experienced and survived. To me one of the highlights of the trip was perhaps awakening consciousness of Elina as well as my own. (Elina is a ...

Thank you!

The Knights of Columbus Council 4617 in Churchtown, Ohio, would like to thank everyone who came out to our 2nd A Night at the Races event held on Saturday, May 7, 2022! We hope that everyone had a great time and look forward to having this again, next year, on Saturday, May 6, 2023 (1st Saturday of May). We especially want to thank our 2022 event sponsors. They include: Washington Electric Cooperative, Inc., Hayes Insurance Agency, Next Level Masonry LLC – Thad Tucker, Bosner Plumbing Electric and Refrigeration LLC, Spencer Agency — KofC Insurance, Megabea Communications Inc., ...

Right could be reversed

Thanks to Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell, 50 years of reproductive rights for women are about to be reversed. It looks like our right-wing Supreme Court will now dictate to women, especially disadvantaged women with limited resources, all things concerning pregnancy — even when a pregnancy is forced upon them. Mitch McConnell stopped Barack Obama from appointing a Supreme Court justice when he had almost a year left in office. Donald Trump then appointed the next two justices and when he only had days left in office, Mitch McConnell hurried through his third Supreme Court ...

Thank You

Marietta’s Earth Day Celebration events began April 9 with the return of the Hard to Recycle Materials Event that collected appliances and TVs, textiles, rechargeable batteries, mattresses, hardbound books and medical equipment and supplies to be either repurposed or recycled. We collected over 180 TVs, 34 mattresses, a truckful of electronics and appliances and over 1,000 lbs. of batteries that were all recycled instead of landfilled along with re-use of textiles and medical equipment. This took a team to organize and special thanks to Ed Newman with Rural Action, Athens-Hocking ...

O’Conner did the right thing

Likely it is because the county commissioner is unopposed in both the primary and general elections that he made such misleading, complaining statements to Marietta Times reporter Michele Newbanks. That commissioner, named Ritter, incorrectly named Chief Justice of Ohio Supreme Court, Maureen O’Conner for the need of two primaries this year. That claim is absolutely false. The entire Republican party of Ohio has been having a temper tantrum shrieking about their fellow Republican, O’Conner for upholding the state constitution. We Ohioans, with 71% of votes, in 2015 put into our ...