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Right Path has busy season

On Sunday, March 20 The Right Path for Washington County hosted our first post-COVID fundraiser for 2022. It felt amazing and we were blessed to be back at Spagna’s for our 10th annual spaghetti dinner. The crowd and the crew, Spagna’s staff, TRP board, WC Behavioral Health Board, Boy Scout Troop #207, friends of The Right Path, Robert Farley and Kevin Whitby added to the success of our incredible event. Thank you to all our supporters, we couldn’t do it without you. I can’t thank our community enough for your continued support of our prevention efforts to promote healthy ...

Ownership equals life well lived

When one invests one’s money, effort, creativity or any other attributes of oneself he feels ownership of it. It becomes important to an individual to take care of it. Unfortunately, we are in the midst of disposable society where everything is considered temporary and disposable. In the not too distant past, we drank water from glasses. These glasses and cups were washed and reused. In today’s world, water comes in plastic bottles. Often our dishes and utensils are made of plastic. Baby diapers lined with plastic wind up in our waterways along with other disposable items. Of ...

Thank you for help

On behalf of the Salem Township Volunteer Fire Department, we, the members, would like to recognize the following for their gracious and generous donations and their continued support in helping our department purchase a Power Load System for the cot in-loading/unloading patients. The following are: The Marietta Community Foundation; General Unrestricted Donations; Karl D. and Anna Schiltheis Marsch Fund; J. Frances and Lillian Strecter Smith Fund; Broughton-Sugden Fund; F. Buchanon,J.H. McCoy, H. Switzer and Mildred Fund; Betty Markell Hallock Memorial Fund; Ida P. Zimmer Memorial ...

Free speech worth the fight

The richest man in the world just fired a shot for one of the bedrock principals of the United States, free speech. We have witnessed the massive censorship of big tech in the last few years. We can look from the lab leak theory on covid to the Hunter Biden laptop. We also see that Putin still has an account, but Trump is banned. Twitter has even banned the New York Post. What we are watching is big tech actively involved in propaganda. This is the United States, not a repressive, authoritative country. We cherish freedom. What companies like Twitter are doing is not only repressing ...

Thank you

Washington County Fair Board would like to thank everyone that donated, worked and attended our annual dinner on Feb. 26, 2022 at the fairgrounds. The dinner and auction was successfuland we would especially like to thank the following people who helped, planned and worked our event: Lisa, Brady and Alex Barth; Mary and Jason Schultheisz; Erica Offenberger; Karen McCoy; Tom Hoff; Mike and Martha McCoy; Jay Handschumacher; Chris and Tammy Wells. We appreciate the help from our Junior Fair kids: Stephen Anderson, Brady Barth, Melina Matics and Travis Morris. We really appreciate the ...

Consequences

There is a lot of noise on media about killing, destruction of property and looting. Perhaps a lot of mayhem in “Summer of Love” in 2020 and forward would not have happened if perpetrators were held accountable for their actions, after tragic events in Baltimore. Than we had an excellent opportunity to “take the temperature down” at that time. The major problem with Baltimore riots was that there were no consequences for the actions of young people against the Police. Young people attacked the Law Enforcers with rock and variety of propellants. Police were called inappropriate ...