Celebrating summer season enjoyable | Information, Sports activities, Jobs

Summer is right here, and it’s a season of celebration in Eastern Ohio and the Upper Ohio Valley space.

Already this 12 months, quite a lot of festivities have taken place in communities all throughout the area. From chili cook-offs to the Ogden Newspapers Wellness Weekend and, simply this previous week, the Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival, quite a few occasions have already occurred.

Don’t fear that the summer season enjoyable is ending anytime quickly, although.

Starting Wednesday, the Martins Ferry Volunteer Fire Department, with help from Unified Bank, takes over the City Park in Martins Ferry. It will host its annual Betty Zane Days Festival, which honors native Revolutionary War heroine Elizabeth “Betty” Zane, who famously fetched gunpowder from a cabin outdoors of Fort Henry on the web site of modern-day Wheeling to produce the Americans who have been defending the outpost from British and Native American forces.

Betty Zane Days begins with a 5K race and options dwell music nightly, together with meals distributors, a cornhole event, a parade and rather more, together with leisure for kids on the park. The pageant continues via Saturday, Aug. 2.

As summer season slips into fall and faculty will get underway, among the largest occasions we welcome yearly will unfold, together with the Belmont County Fair in early September and the Barnesville Pumpkin Festival on the finish of that month. In Woodsfield, in the meantime, the Monroe County Fair will have fun its a hundred and seventy fifth anniversary from Aug. 18-23.

In the meantime, there are many different actions to maintain native residents younger and previous busy and entertained. Those embrace Barkcamp State Park’s Junior Anglers Fishing Day on Aug. 2, farmers markets, night live shows, automobile exhibits, karaoke contests and plenty of extra.

So, get out and revel in all that summer season has to supply proper right here in our personal yard.