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MARIETTA — The Washington County Right to Life and Marietta Knights of Columbus groups will be hosting a presentation on July 20 from 12- 2 p.m. entitled “Understanding End of Life Decisions.”. It will be held at the O’Neill Center, 333 Fourth St., Marietta. The guest speaker...
Candidate for Vienna Recorder files lawsuit to challenge opponent’s paperwork
VIENNA — A candidate for Vienna City Recorder is asking a court to throw out the Certificate of Announcement of an opponent. Alice Goodwin filed a Writ of Mandamus in Wood County Circuit Court to void and nullify the Certificate of Announcement of her opponent, Rodney Smith due to Smith’s wife, Teresa, being the notary who notarized the paperwork.
MOV Health Department building closed, still aims to help community
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) - The Wood Co. Office of the Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department has been closed due to a water pipe break over the Memorial Day weekend. Even though the building itself is closed to the public due to the damages caused by the pipe break, Amy Phelps, Public Information Officer with the MOV Health Department, says that they are working on alternate ways of delivering services to the community until clean up and repairs are finished. She says that the Wood County WIC appointments were being done in the Wirt County Office for today only, and that from now until they are back in their normal office, they will be providing WIC visits in the Jackson Community Building in Vienna.
Mayor candidate to host town hall on June 6th
Vienna, W.Va. (WTAP) -Mayor candidate Chad Emrick is set to host a town hall on June 6th to address issues in the city of Vienna. Some of the issues include the potential site location of a new amphitheater in Spencer’s Landing, reviewing of the opioid use settlement money, and discussion about the renovations at the Jackson Park Pool.
Organization of Clean Energy and Climate receives Marietta Community Foundation grant
MARIETTA — The Organization of Clean Energy and Climate in Washington County has received a grant of $7,582 from the Marietta Community Foundation. The funds will be used to support development of curricular materials to create hands-on, on-site learning on the topic of an advanced computing center ecosystem. By leveraging the 5,000 square foot greenhouse and SAI.TECH’s data center south of Marietta on Gravel Bank Road off Ohio 7, high school students in the area will learn about computing data center systems, why they generate so much heat and how this recycled heat can be used for a variety of applications.
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