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50th Sternwheel Fest in the books

MARIETTA – The 50th Ohio River Sternwheel Festival this weekend in Marietta is in the history books. About 30 sternwheel boats docked at the Ohio River Levee where residents gathered and enjoyed food and live music from performers, vendors, artisans on Front and Second streets and ...

Fort Frye awarded grants for STEM, hygiene needs

BEVERLY — Fort Frye Local Schools has received $12,000 in grants from the AEP Ohio Foundation to support career-technical education and student health needs. Fort Frye High School received a $10,000 STEM grant to purchase a programmable logic controller for its career-technical ...

Two suspects in NC murder dead in Ohio

ATHENS – Two suspects in a North Carolina homicide were found dead Friday after a pursuit in Athens and Jackson counties, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. An automated license plate reader shortly before 8:20 a.m. Friday identified a black Mercedes-Benz registered to an owner wanted in a ...

Marietta College hosts AmeriCorps 9/11 day event

MARIETTA – Marietta College hosted an AmeriCops Vista event where students, faculty and community members could sign cards thanking veterans, first responders, and active military members for their service on Friday afternoon. This was in conjunction with creating “care packages” full of ...

Lawsuit filed over alleged contamination from Chemours landfill

CHARLESTON – A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Washington, W.Va., residents who say their property was contaminated by hazardous materials – including forever chemicals – from a landfill used by Chemours. Filed Sept. 4 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, the complaint alleges that hazardous chemicals including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS, were released from the landfill and migrated through surrounding soil, groundwater and other pathways, according to a release from R. Booth Goodwin II, one ...