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MARC thanks community for support

The Marietta Area Recycling Center is thankful to the community for all of its support in 2021. Your help guided us to a full re-opening in June to our 24 hour/7 day a week schedule! Although the first quarter of the year our activity was throttled back to being open part time, our activities started to pick up in April, when we kicked off the Marietta Earth Day Celebration with two new recycling events, one for Hard to Recycle Materials and the other, Recycling Day for Children. The Hard to Recycle Materials Event was a joint event sponsored by the Marietta Area Recycling Center, ...

Recent Tornadoes bring climate change to the forefront

While our immediate attention should be directed at relief efforts for the thousands of people who have lost loved ones, are injured, homeless, and without jobs and their personal possessions, we should still reflect upon the significance of these powerful storms that devastated parts of Arkansas, Illinois, and Kentucky in this month of December. These storms bring to vivid relief the reality that the effects of climate change are already upon us. On the day before these tornados, as they formed in the Great Plains, temperatures in Arkansas and Kansas reached the 80s. Warm air ...

Thanksgiving thank you

Norwood United Methodist Church would like to express appreciation and much thanks to our very generous community. The multitude of volunteers who so mysteriously just appear each year when needed and the very generous monetary donations certainly exemplify the love and caring of our town. Special thanks to Mike and Amy Williams and their family for leadership and organization. Surely, the Love of Christ was shown on this day of thanks. Barb Handschumacher, on behalf of Norwood UMC

Letter of thanks

There are so many thanks that need to be expressed. I don’t know where to begin. The holidays are here and there is so much to be said to all of you. You are so generous with your contributions to the Beverly Waterford Food Pantry. Your recent donations are appreciated. To the schools, churches, businesses, organizations, and individuals, you have made it possible to help feed those in our communities. The food pantry is a service that provides much need help in Waterford and Watertown Townships. We have been in operation over 30 years. We are so grateful to St Bernard Catholic Church ...

Save the city’s water supply

Historic Marietta has always been a community with wonderful gifts and untapped potential. As we forge into the third year of COVID-19, 2022 offers a number of opportunities to improve everyone’s quality of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Marietta is blessed by Mother Nature with a high-quality fresh water aquifer near the Muskingum River in Indian Acres Park. Unfortunately, we are failing to protect it even though most are aware of what happens to communities—such as Flint, Michigan, Jackson, Mississippi and Washington DC when we fail to protect these critical ...

Assistance program is going too far

One of the most important responsibilities of elected officials is to spend public money responsibly. Reasonable people may disagree about what constitutes a legitimate use of public funds, but sometimes there is an example of such fiscal irresponsibility it requires special mention. I encountered one such an example recently. In a meeting earlier this month, I listened as a dedicated and responsible employee of a local agency described a new federal program designed to provide mortgage relief to the “needy.” Using federal Covid relief funds, the Ohio Housing Finance Agency has ...