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Strickland discusses education in Marietta
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Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland outlines a list of education principles during a televised conference on education in the state of Ohio Monday at Marietta College.
August 19, 2008
MARIETTA — Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland began a discussion on education Monday in Marietta with about 200 area educators, parents, students and business leaders by saying he didn’t want any elephants in the room.
“There’s nothing that can’t be discussed,” Strickland told the crowd at Marietta College’s McDonough Auditorium, invited to be part of the governor’s ninth regional Conversation on Education, but the one issue those participating were asked not to discuss was the issue on the forefront of many of their minds.
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Homecoming deemed a success
August 19, 2008
PARKERSBURG — The 2008 Parkersburg Homecoming appears to be a rousing success.
Festival officials are taking in the results of this year’s 26th annual event.
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Service held in Belpre for teen
August 19, 2008
BELPRE — Roughly 1,200 members of the community turned out to remember the life of Alex Joy on Monday at Belpre Elementary School.
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Mountwood Park security discussed
August 19, 2008
PARKERSBURG — A recent incident is placing more emphasis on the need for security upgrades at Mountwood Park.
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Theatre anyone?
Thu, August 7, 2008 @ 9:01AM
I'm going to step away from the annoyance I feel about the endless movie remakes and CD re-releases going on at present. Instead, I'm going to share my excitement and show my inner geek. According to the Agence France-Presse, archaeologists in England have discovered remains of a 16th century playhouse known as The Theatre. Now, I know that finding an old building in Europe isn't a surprise, but the significance of this find is that The Theatre was the first professional home of William Shakespeare. The now famous play write acted on the stage and that particular building was the first home of such plays as "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream." I have been to England I was able to visit the new Globe Theatre, which is a replica of Shakespeare's second stage home, but to actually visit the remains of the original site would be more inspiring.
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Can't run 13.1 miles?? Try 2 instead
Thu, July 10, 2008 @ 9:04AM
Want to be a part of race weekend and running 13.1 miles is absolutely out of question for you? Want to try something a little bit more practical for your fitness level? Consider running or walking in the Parkersburg News and Sentinel Two-Mile Race. This race is great if you are trying to set a personal record, testing your summer training, or a high school or college team looking to get some race experience before the season starts. Most participants are a part of a team from work, or a group of friends who work all summer long to better their health.
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Olympics
Tue, August 12, 2008 @ 12:29PM
I've been watching the summer Olympics on television - I always forget how much fun the sports are until I start watching them. Several times, the Beijing sky, in all it's smoggy glory has been shown. I have heard that many people are wearing masks to limit their exposure. It seems to me that it would be a great location to make some money -"Finest medical masks available. Allows you to take a deep breath and not worry! Guaranteed to stop everything but oxygen!" Hopefully, no one is being scammed because they did not take a mask over with them but I would expect several vendors to have masks for sale at incredibly high prices. May be I should have purchased stock in a medical mask making company before the Olympics started. Oh well. Too late now.
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West Virginia tops in UFO activity
Sat, August 16, 2008 @ 4:03PM
Associated Press is reporting Frank Feschino, a UFO researcher and writer, believes West Virginia has more extraterrestrial activity than any other state in the nation. A study he did showed alien ships crashed 10 times here on the night of Sept. 12, 1952, when the ``Flatwoods Monster' was born. The vehicles escaped, but were damaged while the flew low in the West Virginia hills to avoid detection by radar, he said. On the 56th anniversary on Sept. 12, Feschino and Stanton Friedman, a noted UFO researcher and former physicist, will be the keynote speakers at a two-day convention in St. Albans.
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Author Book Signing
Mon, August 18, 2008 @ 9:25AM
A native West Virginia author, Mary Lou Warstler, will be signing her two mystery novels, "Cats in the Belfrey" and "Pushing Up Geraniums" from 1-4 p.m. Saturday at the local Borders store. Warstler is a retired ordained elder in the East Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church. She has received several awards for her writing and published several short stories and poems, as well as worship resources, plays and sermons. She has been married to Rodney Warstler, a retired United Methodist minister, for 51 years. They have four children, nine grandchildren and one great-grandson. Warstler's first Biblical fiction, "Before the Dawn: A Night of Memories" was published in 2002 from PublishAmerica. "Cats in the Belfrey" was published in 2007 from PublishAmerica, and "Pushing Up Geraniums" was published in January 2008. The third in the series will be available January 2009.
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Big star in New Martinsville
Tue, August 19, 2008 @ 10:57AM
Checking out the West Virginia History website, I noticed that Aug. 20 is a red-letter day in New Martinsville social history. In 1925 Hollywood star Gloria Swanson spent some time in town to film portions of the picture "Stage Struck." The movie was a light comedy, parts of which were shot on location in New Martinsville. Swanson was a major silent film star and her arrvial and stay in Wetzel county was big news. Gov. Howard Gore even drove in to meet and dine with Swanson. Swanson was a HUGE star in the 19-teens and 20s. By 1934, however, her career had fanned. She made only one one film between 1934 and 1950, before her career was revived by "Sunset Blvd." In "Sunset Blvd." Swanson - starring opposite William Holden - plays Norma Desmond, a caricuture of herself. The film - one my favorites from the genre - contains a number of memorable movie lines that are oft-quoted in other movies and cartoons (Bugs Bunny).
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World's greatest sniper never used a scope
Wed, August 13, 2008 @ 2:48PM
After Joseph Stalin signed the non-agression pact with Germany, Germany felt free to invade Poland without Russian interference as Russia invaded its half of Poland as agreed in the secret pact. But the pact also left Russia free to invade and impose its will on its smaller neighbors without German interference. With the rest of the world occupied with Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union was free to gobble up its weaker neighbors, who fell one by one. One small neighbor, however, didn't share that fate. It drew a line in the snow and said "no more." Although we remember the courage of Britain as it stood alone against Hitler, few think of when Finland stood alone against the Soviet Union. For the Soviet Union, conquering Finland should have been as easy as plucking a spring flower. Its army outnumbered Finland's four to one in soldiers, 200 to one in tanks and 30 to one in aircraft. Russia's population at the time was more than 170 million.
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TitleTown voting pushes online polls into spotlight
Fri, July 25, 2008 @ 3:09PM
ESPN’s TitleTown project has generated a lot of talk about polls this week. The Disney-owned broadcast giant is trying to determine what community in the nation deserves to be called TitleTown. They are using an online poll to pick the community. Parkersburg is among the cities in the running. Most online polls use a variety of ways to keep from voting more than once. There are two popular methods. A lot of sites use a what’s called a cookie to determine if you have voted on a poll. A cookie is a small file that is stored on your computer. It is what tells a web page to display the “thank you for voting” message, or in some cases the current results of the poll. Other sites watch to see what IP address a user is coming from. An IP address is your location on the web.
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Cockfighting's last holdout ends
Mon, August 18, 2008 @ 2:58PM
Louisiana finally has joined the rest of the nation in recognizing the intense cruelty of cockfighting. After years of allowing the fighting of gamecocks under the thin guise of "Cajun culture," the state has enacted a ban of the vicious activity, meaning Louisiana there finally sees no difference between putting two dogs in a ring to fight to the death and putting two roosters in that same ring. Cockfighting finally is illegal, but it came only after the Humane Society of the United States lobbied for it and placed intense pressure on former Gov. Kathleen Blanco to ramrod the ban through the state Legislature last year. The ban was long overdue.
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