Athens News Local and Other News

  • Athens soon to add another dog park

    May 8, 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.>>

  • 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. >>

  • 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.>>

  • As poverty worsens, support programs face cuts

    May 8, 2008

    Poverty in Athens County just keeps getting worse.>>

  • 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.>>

  • 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.>>

  • 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.>>

  • 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. >>

  • Police issue alert after student attacked on Franklin

    May 6, 2008

    The Athens Police Department issued a “public-safety alert” early Tuesday after a female OU student reported an attempted sexual assault as she was walking home from a party on Franklin Avenue.>>

  • 911 tape: Male victim’s mother found bodies underwater in bath

    May 5, 2008

    The tape of a call to Athens County 911 indicates that the mother of a Hocking College student, in town for Ohio University Mom’s Weekend, found her son and his OU student girlfriend dead in the bathtub of an apartment at Riverpark Towers early Saturday morning.>>

  • Murder trial of former HC student set to start today

    May 5, 2008

    The trial of a former Hocking College student accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death is scheduled to start today.>>

  • United Appeal raises nearly $190,000 locally through annual campaign

    May 5, 2008

    A celebration luncheon was held at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital to recognize contributions totaling $189,730 that have been pledged for United Appeal’s 13 partner agencies this year, announced Pam Harvey, United Appeal’s local executive director.>>

  • Event highlights depth and breadth of health-insurance crisis

    May 5, 2008

    In Athens County, 8,900 adults and 800 children have no health insurance, and thousands more are underinsured.>>

  • City to learn plan for Richland/682 intersection today

    May 5, 2008

    Athens officials will learn today what the recommended plan for the Richland Avenue/Ohio Rt. 682 intersection will be.>>

  • Police ID students found dead in Athens apartment

    May 4, 2008

    After nearly 36 hours, the Athens Police last night finally identified the two college students who were found dead early Saturday in an Athens apartment. However, police sources still declined to speculate what happened to the two, pending an autopsy.>>

  • Greek goddess still in tug-of-war

    May 1, 2008

    The fight over the statue of Hebe, the goddess of eternal youth, took another turn at Monday evening’s Athens City Council meeting, and now will be discussed by two other city committees.>>

  • Defecting GOP voters probably affected local races

    May 1, 2008

    Republicans who switched over to the Democratic Party for the March primary probably changed the outcome of the county commissioners’ race.>>

  • Athens hires new director for Arts, Parks & Rec Department

    May 1, 2008

    Rich Campitelli has been hired as the new Arts, Parks and Recreation director for the city of Athens.>>

  • Local woman expands meaning of ‘homemaker’

    May 1, 2008

    The second half of one of Darlene Wasserman’s titles is about to change, but the first half has always been the same.>>

  • Shelter official goes (back) to the dogs

    May 1, 2008

    Athens County has a manager for its dog shelter once again, while the city of Athens is looking at what it can do legally to force the county dog warden to respond to calls about dogs in the city.>>

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