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Some insight on topic of osteoarthritis

Within Memorial Health System’s Department of Rheumatology, patients with a variety of diseases that are difficult to diagnose and treat and are taken care of by our expert team of rheumatologists. Specializing in the diagnosis and management of systemic autoimmune conditions and ...

The difference between an Art-A-Tack and an Art-I-Fact

One of the reasons people get into journalism is that they want to know a little about a lot. Along the way you become an eyewitness to the events that shape a community. Stick around long enough and your knowledge of current events becomes knowledge of recent history, and if you stick around a ...

Three Black pioneers who called Washington County home

Here are profiles of three remarkable Black men, who lived as free men in the Northwest Territory and State of Ohio where slavery was prohibited. Christopher Malbone, aka “Kitt Putnam,” panicked as the flatboat started to sink crossing the Ohio River in 1793. He was helping Aaron Waldo ...

Be empathetic of winter woes

Three days after Christmas I was chatting with an acquaintance who said rather huffily “I took all my Christmas decorations down yesterday. It’s all put away. I couldn’t stand it!” My jaw dropped. In a way, I understood. Looking around the living room … and the entire first floor, ...

Online readers are hard to predict

I’ve been online manager of The Times for more than 20 years. You would think in that amount of time I would have psychic knowledge of what people want to read online and why they want to read it. I don’t. I am pretty good at coming to conclusions as to what the typical reader does with ...

Classic American hit has Marietta ties

“MANY A TEAR HAS TO FALL, BUT IT’S ALL IN THE GAME…” Those bittersweet words set to music are probably familiar to those of us who are old enough to remember one of the biggest hits of the 1950s. But did you know that this classic American tune was written by one of Marietta’s ...