Area man guilty of sex with minor
By Kelly Fisher | Jan. 23, 2014A Nelsonville man was found guilty Wednesday of having sexual relations with a 15-year-old girl in 2012.
NEWS BLOGS
City signs on to zero-waste plan
By Emma Ockerman | Jan. 23, 2014Athens is home to passionate environmentalists, a university with the largest in-vessel composting system in the nation, and a growing organic food movement.
OU Students protest Board
Jan. 23, 2014About 50 students rallied around the Board of Trustees’ buses to protest its recent decisions, including the president’s salary increase and tuition hikes.
Use of surveillance towers nixed
By Allan Smith | Jan. 23, 2014While local and state law enforcement will have many officers and agents on the ground during fest season in Athens, festgoers can rest assured they will not be watched from above.
Voting laws up for change
By Emma Ockerman | Jan. 23, 2014A collection of bills aimed at stressing voter identification and the prevention of voter fraud may make the way Ohioans cast their ballots in the 2014 senate elections a little different.
Board approves resolutions at Friday meeting
By Danielle Keeton-Olsen | Jan. 23, 2014The Board of Trustees re-approved the base pay increase it originally granted illegally to President Roderick McDavis and his wife, Deborah, at its Friday meeting.
Report shows decline in arrests
By Allan Smith | Jan. 22, 2014Athens’ notorious party-related history aside, service calls for narcotics, alcohol-related arrests and reports of assaults and vandalism have been on the downswing over the past few years, according to the Athens Police Department’s Annual Report.
Board of Trustees meet to discuss future projects, plans
By Alex Felser | Jan. 22, 2014Resources Committee Meeting:
Accusations and denials: Where is the truth?
By Maria DeVito | Jan. 22, 2014Ohio University’s first-year student trustee released the names of Student Senate colleagues and claimed that they stole nearly 1,000 issues of The Post — without proof of the students’ involvement and without first talking to police.
OU reunites with Botswana, talk on educational friendship
By Taylor Maple | Jan. 22, 2014A delegation from Botswana was in Athens this week to meet with multiple Ohio University college representatives in an effort to better establish the school’s partnership with the country.
County deals with consistently higher gas prices
By Suhyeon Park | Jan. 22, 2014As much as the weather has had a hard time figuring out what to do with itself, the gas prices in Ohio are doing pretty much the same thing.
Kasich, McDavis on the same page for $400 million proposal
By Hannah Yang | Jan. 22, 2014Check tomorrow’s issue of The Post and follow @ThePostCampus for more information.
Fieldhouse completion pushed back
By JIM RYAN | Jan. 22, 2014A barrage of setbacks have marred the long-awaited opening of the Walter Fieldhouse for months, and this time inhospitable weather, delays in heating the facility and deliberation about drop-down netting will ultimately keep most students from setting foot on the facility’s artificial turf or track until Fall Semester.
Local man pleads guilty to theft, may enter service program
By Kelly Fisher | Jan. 22, 2014After changing his plea from not guilty to guilty Tuesday, a man will enter the Athens County Prosecuting Attorney’s Diversion Program for taking more than $5,000 from a woman without providing his promised service.
Mother pleads guilty to theft
By Kelly Fisher | Jan. 22, 2014A 21-year-old mother pleaded guilty Tuesday to one charge of theft after stealing more than $1,000 worth of merchandise from Athens Wal-Mart.
Changes, updates on agenda for Trustees
By Danielle Keeton-Olsen | Jan. 22, 2014Ohio University’s first Board of Trustees meeting of the year will include discussion of disputed decisions from the end of last year.
SENATE IN SHAMBLES
By Caroline Bartels | Jan. 22, 2014The first senate member to resign was Kelsey Higgins, the director of interns, who put on her coat in the middle of the meeting and walked out after bursting into tears.
Bobcat Burglaries: Number of break-ins, thefts spiked over winter break
By Allan Smith | Jan. 21, 2014Winter break-ins occurred at a high rate while students were celebrating the holiday season away from Athens, officials said, and police reports from the first week of Spring Semester show that Apple MacBooks, TVs and jewelry were stolen.
County officials saw higher numbers of residents carrying guns in 2013
By Emma Ockerman | Jan. 21, 2014More than double the number of people flocked to Athens County Sheriff Pat Kelly’s office last year to apply for concealed carry licenses than had done so in 2012, according to local officials and data from the state.
McDavis, Lombardi invite 'Cats to chat in effort to become more available to students
By Maria DeVito | Jan. 21, 2014Two top Ohio University administrators will begin to schedule some time to engage students each month.
