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Recycling, forever chemicals among bills before council on Tuesday

PARKERSBURG – Members of Parkersburg City Council are scheduled to vote Tuesday on the final reading of an ordinance making changes to the municipal recycling program to comply with a July court ruling. The first reading passed on a 6-3 vote at the Aug. 25 council meeting after amendments were made to reflect requests by the plaintiff in the lawsuit that prompted the ruling. The ruling stated, in part, that the city’s subscription-based recycling program implemented in May did not comply with state code because it charged individuals more to participate. If the ordinance goes into ...

Picture This: Fair parade brings crowds to Front Street

MARIETTA – Local organizations, businesses and youth participants traveled through Marietta on Saturday during the annual Washington County Fair Parade. Spectators lined the route as parade entries made their way through the city to the Washington County Fairgrounds during the fair’s ...

Tourist bureau chief retiring, interim named

PARKERSBURG - Leadership at the Greater Parkersburg Convention and Visitors Bureau is changing. Mark Lewis, president and CEO of the tourism bureau for the past 14 years, is retiring on Nov. 1. Autumn Henthorn, who has been with the bureau for nine years, will become interim ...

Marietta mayor vetoes two Knox Park measures

MARIETTA — Mayor Josh Schlicher has vetoed two pieces of legislation involving the use of city-owned property near Knox Park, telling Marietta City Council on Thursday that officials still need to reach an agreement with adjoining property owners. Schlicher returned unsigned Ordinance 80 ...

Submissions open for annual cookbook contest

PARKERSBURG — As autumn approaches, so does the annual tradition of the Parkersburg News and Sentinel and Marietta Times holiday cookbook. The 72nd cookbook contest is calling cooks to explore the flavors of fall and the holidays with the theme Fall Foodies. Participants have from now ...

Views differ on water-field risks

MARIETTA - The City of Marietta has placed a proposal for groundwater monitoring wells on the back burner after determining they would provide little early warning of contamination from injection wells and could create another potential pathway into the city’s aquifer. Marietta Water Superintendent Steve Eddy said he discussed the monitoring wells with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency because one would have been close to an existing oil or natural gas production well. It was determined that contamination would likely be detected in the production well first. The monitoring ...