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Corporations drive gouging

Look folks, the president has no say in gasoline price at the pumps. Crude oil imports from Russia amount to 1.3% of total. The Keystone Pipeline is not shut down and does nothing for the U.S. The price of gasoline is up because oil conglomerates decided to screw you, blame others and think you are misinformed or ill-informed enough to accept their lies. There are over 9,000 drilling permits ignored and unused by these corrupt corporations. While the pro-Russian wing of the Republican party, led by their incoherent boss, rants and whimpers about gasoline prices and tries to blame the ...

Right Path Fundraiser

We are so excited to be back with our Spagna’s Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser this Sunday, March 20, 5-7:30 p.m., with doors opening at 4:30 p.m. This is the first of three fundraisers coming your way and we are asking for your support. Judge Williams will be celebrating his birthday with us as he shares 200 Village Cakery cupcakes with our patrons. You don’t want to miss out on Kevin Witby’s family recipe for sauce and meatballs, salad, garlic bread and all the fixings! All you can eat for just $13!!! I might also mention that you will be waited on by The Right Path and Boys Scouts ...

Standing with Ukraine

Stand with Ukraine! The brave courageous citizens of Ukraine are fighting for their country, their freedom and democracy. Ukranians, a free people, are not giving up their land or their liberty to Putin, a Goliath bully. As President Zelenskyy said, “We will not give up. We will fight in the forests, in the fields, on the shores and in the streets.” These words were an echo of words used by Winston Churchill as England entered WWII to stop Hitler. Thank goodness, Churchill said, “We will never surrender.” Our world could have been very different. The free countries of the world ...

Vintage View memories

I am always interested in the “Vintage View” pictures and columns that Art Smith frequently has in The Marietta Times. I particularly enjoy the scenes of years past in and around Marietta. One picture and story recently in the newspaper that struck a memory cord was Franklin Roosevelt’s visit in 1938. Certainly a presidential appearance and speech peaks the interest under any circumstances. But President Roosevelt carried his own mystique in filling the office during the time of the country’s two monumental crises of the twentieth century - the Great Depression and World War ...

Biden’s Afghanistan genocide

According to the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, America’s ruthless, twenty year war in Afghanistan killed approximately 212,191 people, 45,000 or more of them civilians. In other words, our retribution for 9/11 was to commit at LEAST fifteen 9/11’s against the people of Afghanistan. Yet this number pales in comparison to the estimated ONE MILLION CHILDREN at risk of dying from acute malnutrition over the course of this winter, which can be directly attributed to the genocidal actions of the Biden administration. I was and remain utterly convinced that our withdrawal from ...

Thanks to fellow growers for Marietta In Bloom support

Since 2015, Mr. Jay Huck, Hucks Farm & Greenhouse in Devola, and his staff, including Peggy Douglas, have supported Marietta in Bloom. We have relied on this local firm toplant seeds and plugs for the hundreds of flowers (zinnias, coleus, Russian Sage, lantana, etc) needed for the eight gardens we maintain throughout Marietta. Marietta in Bloom has also enjoyed support from John Neff of Bob’s Market in Belpre as well as from Mr. Al Lang and Nick Mahl of Greenleaf in Marietta. Mr. Jack Haessly of Haessly Hardwoods has generously donated numerous loads of mulch over these past ...