On Saturday, April 20th, the 25th Anniversary of the Marietta Earth Day Celebration kicked off with blue skies and sunshine at Armory Square. We had a record
Meetings
⤠The April regular meeting for the Frontier Local School Board will be held at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Frontier High/Middle School media center.
⤠The Washington County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society will meet at 1 p.m. April 17 at Norwood UMC, 23 Colegate Drive, in the lower level meeting room. Parking is available beside the church in the alley. Covid precautions will be observed and masks are required. Visitors welcome.
⤠Washington County Relay for Life will hold its first monthly meeting at 5:30 p.m. April 19 at the Marietta VFW picnic area on Pike Street to discuss ideas for the upcoming season. The relay event will be held Aug. 14. For more information, call Tim Bonnette at 740-350-3777 or Michele Hendershot at 740-336-9199.
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Photo by Tyler Bennett
Marietta College volunteer Lexi Jobe hands a computer monitor to Christopher Imm of Athens-Hocking Recycling Center to be recycled on Saturday morning.
MARIETTA Washington County residents had the opportunity to safely recycle unwanted items during a recycling drop-off event as part of the Marietta Earth Day Celebration on Saturday.
Calling it the “Hard to Recycle Materials Event,” residents were allowed to donate items that are not normally allowed to be recycled due to unsafe chemicals in the materials or for those just wanting their items to go to the right place, according to Kathy Ortt, Marietta Earth Day Celebration committee member.