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Embracing change

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Belpre officials found out earlier this month that another piece of the puzzle has fallen into place as they look to the future. The city received $85,000 as part of the state Housing Technical Assistance Program, to be used to help develop a comprehensive plan to update its business and housing infrastructure. “It was critical for us. We know that right now, Belpre is in a very big growth mode,” said Mayor Susan Abdella. “We need to work on making sure that we are a community that is open and embracing change.” To that end, potential employers and developers will have no ...

50 years or 50 miles, it’s the dream

Local Columns

Lynnda and I enjoyed a second honeymoon this week in Florida at Disney World. We had a special dinner and viewed the Magic Kingdom fireworks from the top of the Contemporary Resort Hotel. Time flies. It doesn’t seem like we have been married 50 years this month. I asked Lynnda if she expected to make it to 50 years. Her answer was the same as mine. The only question was, would we still be alive. We both had bouts with cancer. Lynnda was in a serious car accident and broke her neck. From the beginning both of us intended to keep our vows, “Until death do we part.” We weren’t going ...

MOV Climate Corner: Don’t fall for it

Local Columns

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., had an op-ed published in the June 5 edition of the Parkersburg News and Sentinel titled “Pulling the plug on the EV mandate” that was absolutely farcical. The first comically absurd aspect of the piece was when Sen. Capito referred to “Congress’s constitutional and statutory oversight authority over federal agencies and unelected bureaucratic overreach.” When since Jan. 20 of this year have Republicans shown the slightest care or interest in “Congress’s constitutional and statutory oversight authority?” Capito herself has applauded ...

Post war saw a boom in area job opportunities

Local Columns

When World War II ended 80 years ago, the nation, and the Mid-Ohio Valley, quickly began converting to the peacetime production of goods needed both domestically and in war-ravaged countries abroad. Old factories would be converted back to their pre-war uses, and new facilities would be ...

‘We’re just getting started’

Editorials

Grassroots efforts do not always accomplish their goal quickly, but it is certainly true that a small group of dedicated, hard-working, persistent people can make big things happen for their communities. That is happening before our eyes in Marietta, as the Historic Harmar Bridge Company earlier this month got good news from the state. The Ohio Department of Transportation’s Transportation Alternatives Program has awarded it a grant of $950,000 for initial engineering and design work for the bridge’s swing span, as part of what the group hopes will be a full restoration of the ...

The Constitution, The First Amendment

Local Columns

The framers of the Constitution added ten amendments, called the Bill of Rights, to protect individuals’ rights from being infringed by the government. A democratic government is one in which the people hold political power and, in this country, exercise that power through elected representatives, also referred to as a representative democracy or republic. The First Amendment is arguably the most important to maintaining a democratic government. It states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging ...