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Protect yourself from utility scams

Editorials

Nearly all of us have been on the receiving end of an attempt to scam us out of our hard-earned money — particularly in the digital age. Utility scams are fairly common, and many of us probably think we know how to sniff them out. Still, according to AEP Ohio, more than 2,000 scam attempts have been reported to that company alone so far this year. That’s 2,000 the company knows about. Who knows how many have gone unreported, or who might have fallen victim? “We care about our customers and want to help keep them safe from bad actors. Scammers are getting more sophisticated, and ...

Hard times and tough choices

Editorials

Perhaps you’ve heard the expression that being poor is expensive. But either you are or have been in that position and understand exactly what that means, or it is very difficult for you to understand. Those who organized the Cost of Poverty Experience in Marietta earlier this week did their best to shed some light on what low-income families experience every day. Participants assigned real family profiles tried to navigate four 15-minute sessions, each representing a week in poverty. Decisions about housing, employment, child care and transportation under tight financial ...

Success is the key to everything

Local Columns

Here are some powerful words for your children!!! Mindset is everything. Teamwork Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is a success. It’s very important that the children can work well with others. Success is never an accident ...

The right recipe to eliminate food deserts

Editorials

Ohio is riddled with food deserts. Affordable, accessible fresh foods and healthy options for grocery shopping are not available to as many as 2 million residents. A report this year by the Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies found 67 counties with at least one food desert, though in some counties, there are several. And it’s not just rural populations suffering. Nearly 60% of Cleveland residents are in food deserts. WTOL reports the U.S. Department of Agriculture calls most of Toledo a food desert. “When I lived in the inner city of Toledo on the north end, ...

Zonta Club of MOV Fall Unique Boutique

Letters to the Editor

The Zonta Club of the MOV would like to thank the community for their continued support of our gently used bi-annual clothing sale the Unique Boutique. This is our largest fundraiser, and all proceeds benefit our service projects, including our scholarships to Washington State College of Ohio. These scholarships benefit non-traditional female college students. We also work to bring awareness for the need of feminine hygiene products, undies, bras, and deodorant in the area with our Delicates for Dignity project. We would like to thank the Women’s Giving Circle through the Marietta ...

Presidential quotes I won’t forget

Letters to the Editor

Donald Trump said many things when he ran for president the first time. Two things that I never wanted to forget and wanted my descendants to always remember I engraved in my cabin wall. The first and I quote “don’t believe what you see and don’t believe what you hear believe what I tell you,” (In other words you aren’t smart enough to think for yourself.) The second and I quote “if you repeat something enough times even if it isn’t true eventually people will start believing it,” (such as the election was rigged and stolen from me. How many times have you heard ...