Athens City Council allocated $460,000 to provide housing and rental rehabilitation for Athens residents in need, finalizing what city officials described as an effort to spruce up local homes and rentals for residents who lack the funds to do it themselves.
Athens city leaders plan to put some of the city’s oldest vehicles — such as street cleaners, police cruisers and pumper trucks — to rest this year and replace them with state-of-the art vehicles that are more efficient but pricey.
The streets of Athens and the Ohio University campus were peppered with more than 100 Athens residents, children and students of all races to march together to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.
An Athens man, accused of taking money from an Athens woman to clean out a culvert but never performed the service, changed his plea to guilty Wednesday and was sentenced to prison.
A Guysville man was killed and two others were hospitalized Thursday in a fatal two-vehicle collision on Old Route 33 near the Athens Boarding Kennel, authorities said.
Fifty years ago, former President Lyndon B. Johnson made a promise to the American people to end the nation’s poverty.
Where there are people, there is crime.
A safety blog recently named Athens as one of the 50 safest cities in Ohio, as well as the safest college town in the state.
Both Athens County and City officials entered 2014 with resolutions of their own: see improvements at the local wastewater treatment plant, renovate the city’s parking garage, implement electric aggregation county-wide and seek a new location for the county sherriff’s office. But budgets can be sparse, more pressing issues can arise and projects can be put on the backburner. That’s why officials are now planning for the likelihood (or unlikelihood) of some of the area’s largest projects coming to light.
The Athens County Commissioners could cough up as much as $20,000 over the next five years to replace an outdated X-ray machine in the county courthouse.
A North Carolina woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to two felony drug charges after she was pulled over in The Plains and found with 198 grams of cocaine.
Along with 1.3 million other Americans, 150 Athens County residents lost unemployment benefits when Congress allowed the benefits for many long-term unemployed people across the county to expire last month, a state official said.
A second former Ohio University employee was indicted in connection to the theft and sale of bones and preserved human remains from a university anatomy lab.
Three families The Post showcased in December spent their holidays with a few more gifts under their tree and in their wallets.
Once considered locally extinct but now boasting a resilient population growth since their recent resurgence, the bobcat is making a comeback in Ohio.
A third person affiliated with an October murder case was indicted Tuesday for allegedly receiving stolen property that belonged to the deceased.
Ohio University students might return in the fall to find several on- and near-campus streets connected, extended or rerouted, city officials said.
Many Ohio University students returning to their off-campus housing before the Spring Semester kicks off Monday might be shocked to see their TVs, DVD players or other belongings have gone missing.
Athens Police released an image, captured from video surveillance, of a suspect believed to be connected to an early morning fire at a local Walmart late last month.
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