I love homecoming at Ohio University. Sitting with my fiancee's family watching the parade, seeing the creative floats from the Greeks, listening to the 110 and alumni band, and seeing the joyous and uplifting Passion Works color explosion. Then I see a group of gloomy and menacing guys with guns. Enter the 2nd Amendment club.
The Athens county sheriff, Athens police and Ohio University police officers were surprised yesterday morning by two trays of cookies from My Sister's Place.
Every two years, the city code-enforcement office sends out four officers with the task of inspecting 4,600 addresses in 24 months. For those officers, city rentals become a pattern of violations, from ripped screens and faulty toilets to missing and broken smoke detectors and illegal extra tenants.
Music fans looking for a taste of good ol' fashioned pop punk, look no further than Love and Squalor. The band has a sense of vivacity and fervor in their performance that all too often eludes the seasoned punk groups.
The Ohio Valley Ice Cats have a lot of work ahead of them before the puck drops for their first game Dec. 6.
Before placing their campaign signs in residents' yards, Athens political candidates might want to make sure their signs comply with city code.
Intangibles put Schiering on top
Two football teams undefeated in the Mid-American Conference will hook up in Muncie, Ind. this Saturday as Miami travels to Ball State.
Eight candidates for Athens City Council spoke out at the Ohio University Student Senate meeting last night in an attempt to garner student support.
Landing in hair and on sweatshirts, congregating at windowsills and near light fixtures, the multicolored Asian lady beetles are back once again. A decade ago they began causing annoyances in Ohio, and they are not going away anytime soon.
Gary Van Meter and Kathy Hecht, candidates for Athens city auditor in the November election, predicted tough times ahead for the city of Athens at the candidate forum last night in the Athens Public Library.
Editors Note: This is the first story in a three-part series examining religion and health practices in Athens. Tomorrow's article will focus on chaplain programs at O'Bleness Memorial Hospital and Doctors Hospital in Nelsonville.
Solutions by The State News