Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! This week I want to talk about a new pest that has been found in West Virginia, the spotted lanternfly (ycorma delicatula). It officially has been found in Wood County and will certainly spread to other areas. Native to Asia, this pest was first ...
As Marietta grew, so did the risk of fire. By 1900, downtown Marietta was a dense collection of buildings that shared walls with their neighbors. The arrangement was perfect for the shoppers that mainly used the sidewalks, not the roads, to go from merchant to merchant. The problem with a ...
The spread of misinformation (inaccurate information spread by mistake) and disinformation (false information spread deliberately) is nothing new in the history of humanity, but it sure seems like it's been getting worse lately. While my colleagues in local news media work to confirm ...
WINDSTORM The windstorm which passed over this region of country on last Sunday afternoon, was accompanied with considerable damage. Fences and trees were swept down before it, and the shingles from the roofs of houses flew in all directions. If the fire which broke out at Odbert’s ...
The News and Sentinel Half Marathon is a little less than a month away. Everybody ready? If you’re in good shape and won’t be trying to cram a season’s worth of training into 28 days, but you haven’t signed up yet, there’s still time. Meanwhile, let me tell you all about my yearly ...
I recently did a presentation at the Dover Public Library about the environmental issues associated with data centers. These issues include: noise, water usage, hundreds of acres of land transformed into industrial developments, exposure to air pollution from power generation, light ...
