An ordinance authorizing $145,000 to be spent on a project that would create safer walking routes for Athens City School students was discussed at yesterday's Athens City Council meeting.
Sunday, I couldn't make any more excuses. After five years of trying to deny it, I started to believe the opinion of so many others: Carson Palmer is overrated.
Two weeks ago, there were 11 tornadoes in Ohio, and one touched down in Athens County. Athens High School's football field was destroyed, about 300 homes were damaged and the event was declared a local emergency. Because a good portion of the residencies hit by the storm were mobile homes, they were ruined completely.
In an attempt to avoid the intimidating, 2-foot-high pile of homework on my desk, I looked up my name on UrbanDictionary.com yesterday. For those who are unaware, UrbanDictionary.com is a website where users vote on definitions for a word, moving the most popular definition to the top of the page. Because anyone can write a definition, they range from the bland, Webster Dictionary definition to just plain bizarre.
Women on campuses nationwide are taught to walk home in groups at night and learn self-defense to prevent sexual assault and violence. However, men, with whom much of the violence is actually starting, receive little of the same education about sexual violence.
Although Hocking Correctional Facility in Nelsonville is experiencing inmate overcrowding, a new state goal to reduce prison populations could mean an increase in inmates.
The best place to look for Rachael Goulding is on a soccer field. The problem is, one can never tell where on the field she might be.
The renovation of 15 Park Place will cost Ohio University more than $1 million, about one third of the project's total budget, a university official said Friday.
Last weekend, one of the gods of the Mid-American Conference was knocked off Olympus when Central Michigan fell to Ball State.
While Ohio University's Reserve Officers' Training Corps program manages to recruit and produce some of the top-ranked cadets in the nation, the number of government scholarships available for cadets this school year has decreased.
One family has taken a unique approach to food security issues in Athens County by educating the community on self-sustainability and donating almost all foods produced on its farm to local charities.
The head of the Athens County Narcotics Task Force was found with two women in an Athens Super 8 motel when police arrested him on sexual battery charges in early September, according to Franklin County Municipal Court documents.
I shouldn't be admitting this - as an impartial viewer - but I was determined to detest the Facebook movie. Hate is a strong word, but I hate Facebook. And I didn't want to watch a two-hour movie about it.
Ohio University Police Department issued its annual compilation of crime statistics Friday, indicating a spike in burglaries on campus.
I have a confession to make. I have fallen completely in love with a reality TV show. This might not seem like a big deal to the 91 trillion of you who watch Survivor or insert-random-VH1-show-here on a regular basis, but it is to me.
A quick look at the score line of Ohio's series against the Goderich Sailors could easily be mistaken for a pair of football games.
Delivery truck drivers have hit a roadblock on Ohio University's campus as officials look to curb traffic on residential greens.
Two local artists were chosen to display their work at the Richland Avenue roundabout because of an Athens City Council ordinance requiring artwork be part of major city projects.
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