January 28, 2021
Two undergraduates in the College of Arts & Sciences and a recent graduate of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have been named Pickering Fellows by the U.S. Department of State. These are Cornell’s first Pickering Fellows since 2011.
The Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program, managed by Howard University, supports students who are interested in working in the U.S. Foreign Service. The program provides funding for a two-year graduate education, provides two summer internships, offers mentoring from a Foreign Service officer and provides other professional development activities. After completion of their master’s degrees, fellows are placed in Washington, D.C. or at a U.S. embassy, consulate or diplomatic mission around the globe and agree to serve at least five years in the Foreign Service.
jpatterson@mariettatimes.com
Marietta City Council met predominantly in executive session Wednesday to discuss active plans for litigation concerning the failure of the Marietta River Trail at Duck Creek.
The failure, a slip which has continued to grow since June 2020, necessitated additional appeals by the city administration for allocation authorization to permanently provide power to the sewer line bypass Wednesday.
Council is anticipated to vote upon that and other financial change order requests lobbed Wednesday, today during its regular business meeting if enough members support a suspension of the rules, dispense with second and third readings and pass the necessary ordinances.
mnewbanks@mariettatimes.com
Work continues on the Buckeye Fields senior housing project, which is being built near the Washington County Home.
The $9.1 million project will include 64 homes on 65 acres near the Washington County Home. Approximately 25 acres will be leased for the initial project and the other acres will be used for potential project expansion.
Washington County Job and Family Services Director Flite Freimann and Rick Hindman, assistant executive director at Buckeye Hills Regional Council, decided to create a non-profit organization called Buckeye Hills Support Services to handle the project, as JFS and Buckeye Hills were both government agencies. BHSS leased the land from the Washington County Commission.