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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 were recently contacted as a neighborhood, from the county health department’s Creating Healthy Commu...

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 susp...