Matamoras News

The Lafayette Hotel, 2-4 p.m. Christmas Village Craft Show - Betsey Mills Club, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Merry Tuba Christmas - Hermann Fine Arts Center, Marietta College, 4 p.m. Downtown Holiday Loft Tour - 5-8 p.m. Sunday: Handel's Messiah Concert - St.

An elderly Waterford man died on Thanksgiving after being pulled from a burning storage building on his property, police and fire officials said.

Beverly/Waterford Food Pantry, P.O. Box 7, Beverly; 984-2807. New Matamoras Food Pantry, P.O. Box 205, New Matamoras; 865-2990. L.A.M.B. Food Pantry and Thrift Shop, 309 Walnut St., Lowell.

In the Marietta 1st Ward council race, incumbent David White leads Louise Gwinn by 19 votes.

It may have been the fire and explosions that most captured the attention of New Matamoras Elementary students Wednesday during a day devoted to science, but the suggestions of how to live "green and clean" also took hold.

Taking a nice drive on the back roads of West Virginia and Ohio is something many people like to do, and may not think they're in any immediate danger.

The Washington County Health Department is out of seasonal flu vaccine. The Marietta City Health Department only has vaccine for children ages 6 to 35 months.

A faulty furnace is suspected of touching off an early Tuesday morning fire near New Matamoras that killed a 50-year-old mentally handicapped man and left his elderly parents homeless, according to fire officials.

A fire early Tuesday morning in New Matamoras killed a handicapped man who couldn't escape his home, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Office.

As former POW Eugene Parker told of his hungry, cold and miserable days as a prisoner during World War II Friday, he paused mid-story to ask a group of New Matamoras Elementary students "Can you imagine?" There was no way for the fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders in attendance to put themselves in his shoes, but on Friday, at the school's 20th ...

Eighteen-year-old Darrell Hague of Marietta will be selling his fifth grand champion market lamb since 2002 at the Washington County Fair today.

Partly Cloudy Temp: 83.0 F Heat Index: 88 F UPDATE 8/20/09 at 6:00 a.m. Two people have been arrested after a fight involving a gun in Washington County.

Retired Marietta and Williamstown high school principal Jack Mental will be the new administrator at Frontier High School, pending a board vote tonight.

The community garden program provides garden plots, seeds, tools and training for folks who want to grow their own food and allows them to share extra produce with area food pantries and feeding agencies.

Family: Wife, Anne; and two grown children. Current residence: Bowling Green. Experience: 22 years in Ohio schools, including nine years in administration.

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday and Friday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Belpre Monday through Wednesday: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Beverly Monday through Wednesday: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday: 10 a.m. to 3 ...

Two murders and an attempted murder within a week last July may not have been out of the ordinary for some areas, but for a community that hadn't seen a homicide in nearly four years, it left most people in shock.

Education: Bachelor's degree in education from the University of Rhode Island; master's degree in educational administration from Bowling Green State University.

Thursday marked the final board of education meeting for Frontier Local Superintendent Troy Thacker and the search is under way for his replacement.

The fate of the Belpre Branch of the Washington County Public Library is in the balance if funding for Ohio's public libraries is in jeopardy, officials said.