Day: May 23, 2023

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Pioneer Progress: The Story of Marietta Basketball’s Jon Vanderwal 

By Joe Collins, Photos by Carrie Legg With 16 years in the books for Marietta Pioneers Men’s Basketball coach, Jon VanderWal, and the rest of the team, the season ends with a​ ​17-11 finish and a loss in the Ohio Athletic Conference championship to Mount Union, a team who just lost the Division III NCAA National championship. […]

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The Scene

Ben’s Happy Trails Riding Stable and Campground: A Story of Horses and a Home

By Audrianna Wilde, Photo by Carrie Legg

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Features

The Women of Appalachia Project features art for the soul

by Kate Mauer, Photos by Jesse Jarrold-Grapes

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In Your Neighborhood

Stockport Mill Inn: Morgan County’s historic waterside getaway  

Written and photo by Liz Partsch
This historic inn offers a touch of nature and escape from reality alongside the Muskingum River

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Behind the Bite

Deep-Cut Tavern serves up burgers, french fries and friendship

Friends, family and, of course, deep-fried hamburgers are what keep Deep-Cut Tavern regulars coming back for more. The signature dish is made from fresh, local hamburger meat that is crusted with a secret spice and breading blend. It is then deep fried and perfectly dressed in locally grown tomatoes and finished with lettuce, onion, cheese […]

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In Your Neighborhood

A new DAWN for addiction recovery 

In Your Neighborhood / Summer 2023 Issue Addiction Recovery in Southeast Ohio  Ohio’s Project DAWN ensures that everyone has access to the opiate antagonist Naloxone, commonly known as NARCAN, and provides Ohioans with a new outlook on addiction, recovery and rehabilitation.  Coordinated by the Ohio Department of Health (ODH), Project DAWN is a program designed […]

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Features

Ohio Poet Laureate is rooted in poetic justice

Gunter-Seymour speaks of her career as a gift she attributes to her family, but her journey to embracing poetry wasn’t a straight shot.

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In Your Neighborhood

ABC Players offers a new sensory-friendly shift to theater 

“You had teenagers who were walking up and down the aisle making vocalizations. You had someone … groaning during all of the dialogue, and as soon as the music and dancing started, he was just excited and watching,” Korpi says. 

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Features

Cleaning Up Coal

By Joe Timmerman and Tre Spencer

The future of coal in a small village along the Ohio River looks bleak as the General James M. Gavin Power Plant contaminates groundwater with coal ash.

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Features

The Barn Artist

Having grown up drawing, Hagan took on painting during high school. At age 19, he decided he wanted more of a challenge.  

“I just was starting to figure out that I liked painting things that were on the bigger scale,” Hagan says. “The biggest thing I could find to challenge myself was the side of [my] dad’s barn there.”   

Now, he is known as “Barn Artist.”

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