Hello August! I’m sure all the parents are excited to see their kids going back to school. At the same time, the children are not ready to go and face the hot classrooms. August is a month of new beginnings and preparing all the students to go to the next grade and learn as much that they ...
Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners! We are experiencing one of the wettest Augusts in recent memory as rain totals this month are more than 8 inches in many areas of the valley. As the harvest of tomatoes, peppers, green beans, sweet corn and other vegetables continues, please contact ...
Generations of young journalists got their start working in the newsroom of The Marietta Times, including me. For 46 years Jim Bartholow helped to gently guide them along. He knew what was going on in their heads because he had been in their exact same spot. Jim started at The Times directly ...
When is Spider-Man at his best? When he is teaming up with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes to take on alien threats in “Avengers: Infinity War” (2018) and “Avengers: Endgame” (2019)? When he meets other Spider-Men through some multiversal malarkey in “Spider-Man: No Way Home” (2021)? Or ...
I have covered many legislative committee meetings in my time under the golden dome, but I have never seen a worse outing for a new cabinet secretary than I did last week for Carl Ayers, the new secretary of the Department of Human Services. Ayers is only 23 days in, with his first day the ...
In the 1980s, when Dave Owen was editor of the Parkersburg Sentinel I approached him with the idea of reprinting items from early newspapers. He liked the idea and titled the column “Attic Clippings.” Perhaps some readers will recall the column. It appeared in the Sentinel for three or ...
