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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.