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Letter to the editor: Community deserves answers on injection wells

Letters to the Editor

Injection wells are one of the issues I have been asked about most this election season. While the concern may be new to some, I have worked on it for more than six years. The last time the Ohio Department of Natural Resources — the licensing and monitoring authority for Class II injection wells — held a public meeting in Washington County, it did so at my urging as president of the Board of County Commissioners. When the Ohio EPA held a public meeting here last year, it again came at my urging, this time as a newly elected legislator. To my knowledge, I am the only elected ...

Traveler impressions of early Marietta

Local Columns

Visualize what Marietta looked like in the 1790s and early 1800s. Actually, visualizing is all you can do because period images are rare and incomplete. But we have the fascinating observations of several travelers. JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN UNSETTLED PARTS OF NORTH AMERICA, FRANCIS BAILY. He ...

The show goes on: The Smoot marks 100 years in Parkersburg

Editorials

PARKERSBURG — For much of its hundred-year history, the Smoot Theatre operated alongside other local theaters to bring first vaudeville and later movies to residents of the community. The Smoot, on Fifth Street between Juliana and Market streets, opened Oct. 18, 1926. The theater was ...

The Way I See It: Getting here was half the battle

Local Columns

Getting around today is as easy as getting in your car and hitting a button that says start. With a nationwide network of roads and a robust series of airports you can get to every corner of our nation in under a day. Remarkable when you consider we have around 3.8 million square miles in ...

Cracking the Code: Everyone listens to WIII-FM

Local Columns

I was 10 years old when I got my first sales job. It was selling candy in a Pittsburgh Pirates glass to raise money for our Little League. Our coach took us to each neighborhood. We went door to door. The candy and special glass sold for $1, a significant sum back then in a working-class neighborhood. I sold a lot of candy-filled glasses. Our team sold its allotment. It wasn’t my sales skills. Who wouldn’t buy from a smiling 10-year-old baseball player in uniform? Our team and the league raised the money needed for balls, wooden bats and uniforms. People in our area were ...

Living Democracy: Are you ready?

Local Columns

Election Day is Nov. 3, but you do not have to wait in Ohio. Early voting started Oct. 6 and will continue at the Washington County Board of Election, 204 Davis Ave. in Marietta, until Sunday, Nov. 1. The hours are on the website at boe.ohio.gov/Washington. Have you made a voting plan? Will you vote early? Will you vote by mail? If so, time is short. Will you vote on Election Day, Nov. 3? Find your polling place at boe.ohio.gov/Washington. You cannot vote at the Board of Elections on Election Day, Nov. 3. What do you need to vote? You must be registered to vote in Ohio. The last day to ...