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Investigation into sexual and alcohol-related allegations in an anonymous letter to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office will net the second appearance of a former Marietta Middle School basketball and track coach in front of Marietta Municipal Court next week.
Crystal Dawn Burke, 41, of 6625 State Route 60, Lowell, appeared in Marietta Municipal Court on Monday for a reading of the six charges against her, all third-degree felony counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.
“Today wasn’t even a preliminary hearing, it was just the reading of the charges and allowing her time to get an attorney,” explained Joe Derkin, an assistant prosecutor with the Washington County Prosecutor’s Office.
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Gillian Baker, 19, of Beverly, receives a single dose of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine against coronavirus by a Memorial Health System nurse while inside the Dyson Baudo Recreation Center on Marietta College’s campus Monday.
Just shy of 200 individuals affiliated with Marietta College have thus far not thrown away their shot.
Well, their opportunity to be vaccinated on campus, that is.
Dr. Richard Danford, vice president for student life and diversity, explained Monday as students filed into the Dyson Baudo Recreation Center that after the go-ahead from Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, at the beginning of this month, vaccination from the novel coronavirus en mass was kicked into gear.
jpatterson@mariettatimes.com Prospective gardening families are already flocking to the River City Farmers Market in Marietta to begin selecting plants for their home crops.
Prospective gardening families are already flocking to the River City Farmers Market in Marietta to begin selecting plants for their home crops.
What started as a pilot program in a few Ohio counties has expanded, with eyes on southeast Ohio once again.
Near the end of summer in 2020, five Ohio State University extension offices offered a pilot program with a nod to World War I history.
The program was a joint effort between the Ohio Department of Agriculture and The Ohio State University extension program to encourage the momentum and camaraderie first seen with Victory Gardens, placing the Buckeye spin on the old tradition.
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Patrick Snider delivers milk for the weekend GoPacks distribution to Marietta families on Friday.
According to national hunger-relief nonprofit Feeding America, this year 42 million people in the U.S. may experience food insecurity (the lack of consistent access to enough food to live a healthy life).
“This is the first school year that we’ve started the first bag to go home in the fall in triple digits,” said Heather Warner, executive director of the supplemental meal program GoPacks, which is administered to Marietta City Schools’ students and homeschool students living within the district. “Usually we don’t reach triple digits until Christmas.”
On Dec. 22, 2020, my grandfather drew his last raspy breath from a ventilator.
On April 3, I received the vaccine for the same virus which killed him and my editor’s father, plus put my colleague’s husband into emergency surgery last month from complications of COVID-19.
Thursday, I signed up an 85-year-old man who weeks ago was brought close to tears with confusion asking how he was supposed to sign up for the vaccine.
“I am sad that the Creator saw fit to destroy us to give you life,” I read over and over as I’ve grieved the death of my abuelo. “Maybe it is we who are the true sons and daughters of God, who had to die on the cross of your fears and greed, so that you could be saved from yourselves.”