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Left to right: Second-grade students Ry DâEttore, Reagan Slaubaugh and Logan Husk kick a soccer ball at Harmar Elementary School in view of the blighted public nuisances at 115-117 Gilman Ave. in Marietta on Monday. (Photo by Janelle Patterson)
Two weeks to the day from the court declaration of blight and public nuisance, 115-117 Gilman Ave. still loomed in the overcast background of Harmar Elementary play Monday.
“We talk about that place being haunted and if there’s a bad guy there or something,” said Reagan Slaubaugh, 8, of Marietta, as she kicked a soccer ball with fellow second-grade students in the grass of the primary school.
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Photos by Janelle Patterson
From left, Marietta City Councilman Geoff Schenkel listens to the observations of Tanner Huffman and Adam Murphy concerning the securing of the blighted property at 115 Gilman Ave. on Tuesday.
Instead of generations of physicians’ history dating back to Marietta’s 1788 settlers, the city’s labor crews were greeted Tuesday with drug paraphernalia elevated within arm’s reach of a city sidewalk in view of Harmar Elementary School on Gilman Avenue.
With gloves on and a crumpled, emptied water bottle in his left hand, Adam Murphy collected first the hypodermic needle to the left of the front stoop, at hip height.