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Battle of the sexes Statistics have shown that women earning more than their partners are more likely to be victims of “domestic violence”. What is it in our male culture that offends men who feel frustrated and jealous enough to hurt and destroy a relationship with partners who outperform them? Many females today are career women who have achieved their status in their own right. Men seem to be more competitive than women, but is this a male-only attribute? Most males see themselves as th...

jpatterson@mariettatimes.com Planning was at the center of three discussions amidst three hours of Marietta City Council committees Thursday. Pedestrian Safety Planning Streets Committee Chairwoman Susan Boyer focused her questions on grant administration of the Ohio Department of Health’s Creating Healthy Communities’ programmatic funding Thursday following the citizen-driven outline of pedestrian safety needs along the Franklin Street Corridor in the lower west side (Harmar). “We wer...

jpatterson@mariettatimes.com Marietta City Council authorized the creation of a part-time clerk in the fight against blight Thursday, with the caveat that the adoption was a “baby step.” “I am not willing to commit the city to spending money on another city employee without knowing if any of the issues that we are experiencing in the department would be solved by adding this position. And that justification has not occurred,” said the chairwoman of the Employee Relations Committee, Coun...

jpatterson@mariettatimes.com Marietta City Council will consider one item of old business and 10 of new business today in its second regular business meeting of the month. The position of a part-time clerk in the Department of Property Maintenance solely for the year 2021 (a trial-year, per past council committee discussions) is up for a vote today to serve alongside the city’s code enforcement official. The pay scale and expected duties for such a new position have been a topic of frequent d...

jpatterson@mariettatimes.com Photos by Janelle Patterson From left, Marietta City Councilman Geoff Schenkel listens to the observations of Tanner Huffman and Adam Murphy concerning the securing of the blighted property at 115 Gilman Ave. on Tuesday. Instead of generations of physicians’ history dating back to Marietta’s 1788 settlers, the city’s labor crews were greeted Tuesday with drug paraphernalia elevated within arm’s reach of a city sidewalk in view of Harmar Elementary School on ...