Marietta News

Wednesday was the last day of school for the Marietta and Warren school districts, meaning that now all Washington County students are out of school for the summer.

When Monroe Seigle was growing up, he always knew he wanted to be a Marine. In 2001 at the age of 21, Seigle realized his dream to be one of a few good men and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.

This year, he's got to go back and replace part of his corn crop, due to an unusual springtime nuisance - slugs.

The Frontier alumni association representing the classes of 1969 to 1985 will hold its second annual class reunion June 15 and 16 at the Comfort Inn, 701 Pike St., Marietta.

In January, I wrote to The Times to ask that Caring Connection in Marietta be added to your list of locations that could prepare free income tax returns.

A training session for the District 18 Ohio Public Works Commission State Capital Improvement Program will be held Wednesday, June 13, at the Holiday Inn in Marietta, Ohio.

At 8 o'clock Saturday morning, the race toward the 2012 Ohio River Sternwheel Festival began in more ways than one.

Tpr. Michael S. Seabolt was recently promoted to the rank of sergeant by Col. John Born, Ohio State Highway Patrol superintendent, during a ceremony at the patrol's academy.

Marietta residents Haylea Johnson, 9, and Joseph Goines and Kiara Hughes, both 8, have been waiting for the Marietta Aquatic Center to open since Christmas.

The Marietta High School newspaper, the Original, in 1941 was sold for five cents.

It's difficult enough to find dock space for smaller boats on the Muskingum River in Marietta, but parking along the riverbank can pose a much larger problem when you have a 300-passenger sternwheeler and plans to connect a barge with the capacity for 150 more riders.

It's official - Rutland has a new sister! Marietta, Ohio, officially became Rutland's baby sister by a vote of the board of selectmen in May.

Jason and Amanda Warner of Belpre, Ohio, welcomed their first child, Morgan Brianne Warner at 11:29 a.m. on February 14, 2012, at Marietta Memorial Hospital in Marietta, Ohio.

Joe Foster hoped that he carried even a fraction of the weight members of the U.S. military carry on their shoulders every day during the Ogden Newspapers Classic Half Marathon on Saturday.

For the ones that were in Marietta on Saturday, May 12, at around 1 p.m. you may have wondered what all the sirens and motorcycles were all about.

A city employee is working 20 feet underground when suddenly an alarm goes off indicating that his oxygen supply is low.

Ten indictments returned by a Washington County grand jury this week include charges against a Belpre woman accused of stealing food stamps and a Marietta woman who allegedly got welfare benefits she wasn't entitled to.

A former employee of First Bank of Ohio was sentenced Thursday to 45 days in the county jail and three years of community control for illegally withdrawing $8,580 from customers of the bank.

The city of Parkersburg's mayor and police chief say a lawsuit filed against them by a local Fraternal Order of Police lodge is politically motivated.

In preparing for the razing of Parsons Hall on Marietta College's campus, hundreds of pieces of furniture were recently pulled from the dormitory and placed in a charitable organization's storage facility, where it can be obtained by community members free of charge.