Devola News

A little bit of rain was not enough to keep a sizable crowd from enjoying the first Merchants and Artist Walk of the 2013 season.

A Colorado-based company moving into the area for oil and natural gas drilling donated $5,000 to upgrade Waterford High School's baseball field.

The lifeguards have been trained. The slides have been buffed. The deck chairs have been cleaned.

A smoking frame and hunks of charred aluminum siding were all that was left of the former home of the River City Farmers Market Monday after an early morning fire ravaged the Washington County Fairgrounds' Rabbit and Poultry Building where the weekly market was held.

It's been 68 years, but Bob Pioli will never forget the morning of April 29, 1945 when, after more than a year of incarceration, he was one of 100,000 soldiers liberated from a Nazi prison of war camp at Moosburg, Germany.

Flames engulfed the structure where three departments from the Marietta Fire Department, the Warren Volunteer Fire Department and the Devola Volunteer Fire Department were dispatched.

The walks will be from 7 to 10 a.m. and participants should bring their own field guides and binoculars.

Though the smashed up cars, broken glass and bloodied students in the Marietta High School parking lot Friday were all part of a cautionary performance, the fear and sometimes tears in the eyes of the onlookers were very real.

We think we can all agree that the Muskingum River is a thing of beauty. The Indians knew that, the settlers knew, the boaters who enjoy the challenge of coming through the locks, the campers who line the river banks all summer know.

But a fund people used to support the playground was just removed this week from the Marietta Community Foundation's website, one of a few accounts that seem to exist although the original purpose for the account is gone.