COLUMN: Affinity programs make sense for chamber members

Marietta Times

The Marietta Area Chamber of Commerce continually looks for new programs and services that it can offer its business members.

With a diverse membership, ranging from the county's largest employer, Memorial Health Systems, to the home-based independent distributor, the chamber's menu of offerings is quite lengthy.

In evaluating what the chamber can do to best achieve our mission statement, some of the offerings are dropped while new ones are added to the list.

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Marietta businessman remains undeterred after rebuff on broadband tower

Marietta Times

The local owner of a company that wants to provide wireless high-speed broadband Internet services to the Marietta area plans to continue his efforts in spite of a recent setback from the Marietta Planning Commission.

Marietta resident "Peter" Wei Chung Sheng, with American Broadband Communications LLC, was denied a variance that would allow the company to erect a 150-foot-high tower on property Sheng owns along Grandview Avenue in the Norwood area.

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