Washington County News

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.

Authorities say a man who drove a lawn tractor on the sidewalk, street and into a Walgreen's parking lot in Washington County is facing his fourth drunken driving charge.

Post traumatic stress disorder was virtually unheard of in the 19th Century, but it could explain why the remains of at least 85 Civil War-era veterans, including a Washington County soldier, are buried in cemeteries on the Ridges near the former Athens Lunatic Asylum.

Marietta honored those fallen veterans and all those before. "It's a day to remember all that's given their lives for our country and for each one of us it's to be able to stand here today in freedom and visit and we respect each one," explains a ceremony participant, Shirley Cox.

A record crowd of family, friends and well-wishers attended Marietta High School's 160th annual commencement exercises in the Dyson-Baudo Recreation Center at Marietta College Sunday evening.

Editor's note: This is the next in a series of articles about the member agencies of the United Way Alliance of the Mid-Ohio Valley.

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.

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.

A Barlow man was transported to Marietta Memorial Hospital after suffering burns in a fire at a well house on Blue Knob Road Wednesday afternoon.

A proposal to require third-graders who don't score proficient or higher in reading on state tests to repeat the grade is being touted by the governor as a way to ensure students are reading well at a critical age but is being met with resistance by some local educators.

Seven more times in his life he has also been charged and convicted with DUI, an older term for OVI, prompting Washington County Common Pleas Judge Ed Lane to order the maximum possible sentence to Quimby Wednesday morning.

In a recent case involving a Vincent man sentenced to serve six years in prison for trafficking in heroin, two prior criminal convictions were omitted from the case's Pre-Sentence Investigation report.

A number of the more than 200 students recognized at the Washington County Career Center's annual senior awards assembly Tuesday were appreciative of their time at the school but eager to move on to the next chapter in their lives.

Campus Martius Museum reflects one of the most significant time periods in the history of the expansion of the United States.

As has been reported earlier in several letters to the editor you know what tricks the commissioners have pulled to install an unwanted sewer, by some residents, here is one that beats all.

A February leadership conference at an Ohio state park lodge cost the state's taxpayers about $23,000, Watchdog10's Paul Aker reported on Monday.

Shawn Fullerton and his son Dalton set up their chairs at the Washington County Fish and Game Association's lake about six hours before the organization's fishing derby started Sunday just so they could get a good spot.

The tops of lettuce and green peppers are peeking out through soil in the community gardens throughout Washington County, just waiting for the right combination of time, sunshine and water to grow to their full potential and be ready for eating.

The Belpre Congregational Church will celebrate its 185th anniversary at 10:30 a.m. Sunday during its regular worship services.