Marietta News

The turnout was a bit light for Wednesday's report card to the community by the Marietta Development Advisory Board as more than 20 people heard a status report on the Marietta City Comprehensive Plan originally adopted in 2003.

The Right Path is excited to host our fourth annual all-you-can eat $10 fish fry/fundraiser Friday, May 31, VFW Post 5108, 319 Pike St., Marietta.

She was born on Oct. 20, 1941, in Marietta, to Walter and Lucille Neader. Judy was a 1959 graduate of St.

I would like to entitle this letter, "I am proud of my brother." Family is a funny thing sometimes.

Something unique is planned for tonight's 10th annual Strecker Cancer Center Fashion Show fundraiser-all 30 models and 15 volunteers assisting with the program are current or past patients at the Strecker facility.

The Marietta Police Department will offer the first portion of its civil service examination Saturday in hopes of filling three patrolman positions that have been vacant for around four months.

He was born Aug. 17, 1947, in Beverly, son of James H. and Doris Mae Alltop Burchett.

Veterans returning to school after leaving the military aren't like the typical 18-year-olds starting out at Marietta College.

Copper Leaf Interior Design Studio, a Marietta-based firm, has been awarded "Best Of Houzz" 2013 by Houzz, the leading online platform for residential remodeling and design.

Sunday dawned a bit cool for the month of May, but an abundance of sunshine lured many families out of the house to celebrate Mother's Day 2013.

Louis Roe Cavillis, 42, of Belpre, passed away on Thursday at 11 p.m. at his home.

Harold Everett Byer, 93, of Marietta, passed away on Friday at the Harmar Place.

All three are accused of selling heroin to confidential informants from the Major Crimes Task Force over the past several months, according to a press release from the Washington County Sheriff's Office.

The historic Wilcox-Mills House on Fifth and Putnam streets has been the home of Marietta College presidents for more than seven decades.

A Marietta man accused of hitting a teenager with a vehicle he was attempting to steal was sentenced Wednesday in Washington County Common Pleas Court.

Developers are ready to build a 2,900-square-foot restaurant and open an office rental business at the location of the former Movie Gallery near the Seventh, Pike and Greene streets intersection if Marietta officials will agree to vacate a portion of city right of way there.

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

The Marietta City Board of Education on Monday approved a nearly $600,000 contract to expand and renovate the high school so students won't have to leave the building to change classes.

She was born April 8, 1933, in Shadyside, W.Va., to Myron Rowsey and Edith Louise Lawson McCallister.

Two days of great weather resulted in a well-attended 27th annual Lowell Springfest this weekend as festival-goers traveled to Buell Island where around 50 vendors had a wide variety of wares on display.