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Experience high tea inside the beautiful Belmont County Victorian Mansion Museum at 11:30 a.m. June 28. In addition, there will be a style show of wedding attire featuring items from the textile collection. Reservations and advance payment are required and can be made at bit.ly/RoseTea25 or by calling 740-425-2926. For more information about the Belmont County Victorian Mansion Museum and upcoming events, visit belmontcountymuseum.com. Information can also be found on the museum’s Facebook page and Instagram. AN Indoor yard sale will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, June 27, ...

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GARDNERS, Pa. (AP) — Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian Trail when he sat down outside a little country store in Pennsylvania to take on its ice cream challenge. Nearly 40 minutes and 2,500 calories later, the dairy farmer from Chapel Hill, ...

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SUNDAY, June 15, Pastor Aaron Szloboda will be sharing from Acts 11 at the 8 a.m. Traditional and 9:45 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. contemporary services at Friends Church in East Richland, 67885 Friends Church Road, St. Clairsville. The public is invited and can join online at erfriends.com or on facebook.com/EastRichland. The Castle will host a Summer Solstice Concert at 7 p.m. June 19. The Castle is located at 418 Fourth St. in Marietta, Ohio. The summer solstice is a celestial event that has been important to cultures around the world for thousands of years. At Marietta, this event was ...

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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Knight and the Moth” by Rachel Gillig (Orbit) 2. “Nightshade” by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) 3. “Great Big Beautiful Life” by Emily Henry (Berkley) 4. “The Emperor of Gladness” by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press) 5. “Shield of Sparrows (deluxe ed.)” by Devney Perry (Red Tower) 6. “My Friends” by Fredrik Backman (Atria) 7. “The Love Haters” by Katherine Center (St. Martin’s) 8. “A Curse Carved in Bone” by Danielle L. Jensen (Del Rey) 9. “The Perfect Divorce” by Jeneva Rose (Blackstone) 10. “Tom ...

Ohio Valley Frontier Days will take place June 7-8 at the Historic Fort Steuben in Steubenville

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STEUBENVILLE — From tossing a tomahawk to making rag dolls, there will be two days of hands-on-history as Historic Fort Steuben presents its annual festival, Ohio Valley Frontier Days, June 7 and 8. Historic Fort Steuben, a reconstructed fort on its original site overlooking the Ohio River, invites visitors to meet the blacksmith, the candlemaker, the flintknapper and the re-enactors. They can tour the Officers’ Quarters, the Enlisted Men’s Quarters, the Commissary, the Quartermaster’s Store, and the Hospital as well as take in the panoramic view from the upper level of the ...

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BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” and its music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds. In four-part ...