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Brew Week preparations include sudsy training for beer judges
May 12, 2008
Preparations for the host of events on tap at this summer’s third annual Ohio Brew Week, the only week-long craft-beer brewing festival in the country, are underway in Athens, and some local beer aficionados are in training to become certified beer judges for next time around.>>
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Organ donors bravely save lives of family, friends
May 12, 2008
Everyone should have a friend like Shelly Lutz or a sister like Marcia Guess.>>
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Athens soon to add another dog park
May 12, 2008
Athens Mayor Paul Wiehl and Rich Campitelli, director of arts, parks and recreation for the city, announced at Wiehl’s Wednesday press conference that the baseball field near the Athens Community Center and the city pool will be turned into the city's second dog park in June.>>
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Murder defendant testifies about events surrounding stabbing
May 12, 2008
Murder defendant Ronald Hendrickson II testified in Athens Friday that he only remembers bits and pieces of an incident in which he stabbed his ex-girlfriend, Jodi Blankenship, to death in April 2007.>>
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Area residents in line to benefit after expected Holzer settlement
May 12, 2008
A nearly finalized settlement in a federal class-action lawsuit could mean that nearly 200 area residents, including around 40 from Athens County, will have their outstanding medical debts to the Holzer Clinic forgiven. Each member of the lawsuit class is also slated to receive $100 once the settlement goes into effect.>>
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Area produce auction to open this week
May 12, 2008
Chesterhill Produce Auction (CPA) this Thursday (May 15) is holding its season-opening festivities.>>
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Beacon School gets grant from Goody’s
May 12, 2008
Beacon School has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Goody’s Family Clothing Good Deeds for Schools program for new playground equipment.>>
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Red Cross commits to helping Burma
May 12, 2008
The American Red Cross has made a commitment of at least $1.25 million to help the people of Myanmar, or Burma, following a devastating hurricane that hit the nation. The Red Cross will receive a contribution of $1 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to assist the people affected by Cyclone Nargis.>>
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Cab company confident it will get its license back
May 12, 2008
An Athens taxi service will attempt to get its license back in a hearing today over what the owner says was just a misunderstanding.>>
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JFS coupons good at Farmers Market
May 12, 2008
Athens County Job and Family Services is giving coupons for produce at the Athens Farmers Market through a program funded in part by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Ohio Department of Aging and the Area Agencies on Aging.>>
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Lang says developer needs city permit before it begins blasting
May 12, 2008
Athens Law Director Pat Lang has responded to a letter from a Columbus developer hoping to blast into the earth in Athens as part of a construction project, saying that the company needs to receive a permit from the city before it begins any blasting.>>
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Liberian official, OU grad Dahn to give International Week keynote speech
May 12, 2008
Liberian government official and Ohio University alumnus Marcus Dahn will serve as the 2008 International Week keynote speaker at 7 p.m. today in Baker Center Ballroom.>>
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Major heroin bust has local angle
May 12, 2008
The smashing by authorities of an alleged heroin-peddling ring based in Columbus has led to 27 arrests, including six Nelsonville residents.>>
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Media reform conference on tap at OU
May 8, 2008
The E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Campus Progress and the Athens Free Press are hosting the second annual Media Reform Conference this weekend at Ohio University. >>
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Murder trial focuses on what police, EMTs saw at stabbing scene
May 8, 2008
According to a police officer who responded to the scene of a fatal stabbing in Nelsonville, murder defendant Ronald Hendrickson II told him at the April 2007 crime scene that after Hendrickson’s ex-girlfriend wounded him with a pocket knife, Hendrickson took the weapon from her and stabbed her repeatedly.>>
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As poverty worsens, support programs face cuts
May 8, 2008
Poverty in Athens County just keeps getting worse.>>
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Dairy Barn to host big ritzy affair
May 8, 2008
The Dairy Barn Arts Center is hosting its 16th biennial Art & Leisure Auction, “An Evening in Moonet’s Garden,” this Saturday, May 10. There will be both a live and a silent auction.>>
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Obama/Clinton split shows in county
May 8, 2008
While Democratic presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama continue to battle it out in the race for delegates, Dem voters across the country are split on whom they support.>>
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City officials leaning toward roundabout plan for Richland
May 8, 2008
Athens does not yet have an official “preferred alternative” for the proposed Richland Avenue/Ohio Rt. 682 improvement project, but city officials are leaning toward turning the intersection into a roundabout.>>
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Testimony starts in stabbing murder trial
May 7, 2008
Ronald Hendrickson II “definitely had a plan” to kill his ex-girlfriend Jodi Blankenship, after she told him she was having her new boyfriend stay the weekend at the Nelsonville student-rental house where she and Hendrickson lived. That's what Athens County Prosecutor C. David Warren told a jury Wednesday in opening arguments in Hendrickson's aggravated murder trial, which started with jury selection Monday in county Common Pleas Court. >>
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