Having never farmed or tended a garden in his life, Weston Lombard decided to turn his life upside down by leaving his job filled with neckties and conference calls for a life of torn denim and digging holes.
Toothpicks, metal slugs, buttons and flattened bottle caps are the souvenirs of almost two decades of failed attempts to fool parking meters.
In the era of social media, Uptown shops are joining the flocks of businesses seeking new ways to spread the word to customers — in 140 characters or less.
As the possibility of hydraulic fracturing coming to Athens County looms nearer, local officials have said emergency services are well prepared for a “fracking” accident, but residents are not as comfortable.
Two Democratic candidates vying for the seat as Athens County Engineer constructed defenses and demolished accusations during the first candidate forum Thursday night.
Eyes sunk-in with scraggly blond hair, 29-year-old Jessica Willison stood up for her boyfriend, Buchtel Chief of Police Kelsie Lanning, Jr., in Athens County Municipal Court Thursday.
Dustin Wheatley scrambles to find parts and admit customers to his junkyard to scavenge what they can from the corpses of cars that line the path up the twisting hill.
The Buchtel chief of police was arrested Wednesday afternoon after Athens County deputies allegedly sold him prescription pills in a controlled sale.
Local residents and students won’t have to travel about 1,000 miles to New Orleans to find the beads and cuisine of Mardi Gras this weekend.
Stress balls, nail-biting and meditation might be stress relievers of the past after a study showed blogging is a form of therapy for college-age students.
Vancant since 2008, the building that once housed The Blue Gator, 63 N. Court St., may have a new owner as soon as March.
A summer sliced eight days shorter thanks to Ohio University’s transition to semesters has Ohio Brew Week organizers starting to feel the heat.
When Jim Bruning retired after 35 years of working, he decided to give his wife a gift — anything she asked for.
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth and final story in a five-part philanthropic series profiling nonprofit organizations in Athens County.
Five days after Cunningham Energy filed a lawsuit against its research company in West Virginia, the company filed a suit of its own against Cunningham in the Athens County Court of Common Pleas.
COLUMBUS — Flamingos, penguins and Vice President Joe Biden took to the stage at Thursday’s Ohio Newspaper Association convention.
The special prosecutor for Athens County Commissioner Mark Sullivan's case is calling for his probation to be revoked.
Speaking from the auditorium of Wells Academy in Steubenville, Ohio, Gov. John Kasich first praised the elementary school’s high performance and then challenged education throughout the state to follow suit in his State of the State address Tuesday.
About 100 Athens County residents gathered at the Athens Community Center Tuesday evening to petition local officials to take action on topics ranging from hydraulic fracturing to homelessness in the area.
Breast cancer screenings for poor women in Southeast Ohio are no longer in question thanks to a major donor’s reversing a controversial decision.
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