MARIETTA - Washington County Sheriff Mark Warden, alongside sheriffs from Morgan, Athens, Meigs, Monroe, and Noble counties, announced access to congressionally directed spending funds totaling $454,000 for southeast Ohio. Warden said with help from the county commissioners and various ...
The Marietta High School choir program earned top honors at both the Ohio Music Education Association State Large Group event and a Chicago Heritage Festival in Chicago. On April 16, the choirs traveled to Chicago, where the Cantabile, Bass and Treble Choirs each earned Gold First Place honors at a national-level choral competition. In addition, both Cantabile and Bass Choirs received the Adjudicator’s Award for exceptional performance and quality. The Cantabile Choir was further recognized as the Overall Best Choir, the highest honor awarded at the event. Honors awarded to the ...
COLUMBUS – A group of three veterans from Washington County and one from Noble County were recently inducted into the Ohio Military Hall of Fame for valiant service to their country and their fellow soldiers. U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Meredith L. Barnett, U.S. Army Technical Sgt. Harley E. ...
Hello Mid-Ohio Valley gardeners and farmers! A blessed happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there in the valley. West Virginia has a special connection with Mother’s Day, as the first official celebration was held May 10, 1908, at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton. Anna Jarvis sent 500 white carnations in honor of her mother to the first formal Mother’s Day service. Over the next few years, Jarvis worked to make Mother’s Day a national holiday and President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day in 1914. Carnations became an integral ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A Parkersburg native is among eight recent graduates of West Virginia University to earn the Order of Augusta, the University’s most prestigious honor for academic excellence, leadership and service. The eight inductees were selected from the 52 WVU Foundation ...
PARKERSBURG - The Parkersburg Homecoming is proud to announce the "Queen of Bluegrass" Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, will be headlining the 24th Annual Johnny Staats Bluegrass Festival on Saturday, Aug. 15. Vincent is a multi-award winning bluegrass artist with a 2017 Grammy for Best ...
