/tags/athens-county Athens county en-US Copyright Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:05:00 GMT /2025-03-18/from-coal-to-community-forest-how-one-ohio-organization-is-reclaiming-former-mine-land A team of locals in Athens County is trying to make former mine land economically productive again. Instead of harvesting coal, they’re creating a community forest. Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:05:00 GMT /2025-03-18/from-coal-to-community-forest-how-one-ohio-organization-is-reclaiming-former-mine-land Erin Gottsacker /politics-government/2024-11-05/close-to-100-nelsonville-voters-affected-by-paper-ballot-error Athens County Board of Elections is contacting voters affected by the error to return to vote on Issue 23, which would abolish the city charter. Tue, 05 Nov 2024 22:30:46 GMT /politics-government/2024-11-05/close-to-100-nelsonville-voters-affected-by-paper-ballot-error WOSU News Staff /2024-11-05/vote-for-pumpkin-this-board-of-elections-resident-feline-inspires-voters-in-southeast-ohio Pumpkin the cat has become a beloved local icon in Athens, where he lives at the County Board of Elections. Tue, 05 Nov 2024 11:34:21 GMT /2024-11-05/vote-for-pumpkin-this-board-of-elections-resident-feline-inspires-voters-in-southeast-ohio Abbey Marshall, Ideastream Public Media /2024-05-03/meet-ohios-master-mandolin-maker Don MacRostie has been hand crafting mandolins in southeast Ohio for nearly 50 years. Fri, 03 May 2024 09:58:00 GMT /2024-05-03/meet-ohios-master-mandolin-maker Erin Gottsacker /2023-11-17/how-athens-county-is-using-friendship-benches-to-address-a-growing-public-health-concern The county adopted the idea of friendship benches from Zimbabwe. It aims to address social isolation by bringing trained health workers into underserved parts of the community. Fri, 17 Nov 2023 09:40:00 GMT /2023-11-17/how-athens-county-is-using-friendship-benches-to-address-a-growing-public-health-concern Erin Gottsacker /wvxu-stories/2020-04-23/bengals-fans-meet-your-new-quarterback-joe-burrow Thursday night's NFL Draft gifted a long-awaited - and much anticipated - present to fans of the Cincinnati Bengals: the Queen City's long-suffering... Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:26:44 GMT /wvxu-stories/2020-04-23/bengals-fans-meet-your-new-quarterback-joe-burrow Jennifer Merritt /news-partners/2019-12-16/heisman-winner-spotlights-hunger-in-his-hometown-and-food-pantry-donations-pour-in "I'm up here for all those kids in Athens and in Athens County that go home to not a lot of food on the table, hungry after school," LSU quarterback Joe Burrow said when accepting the trophy. Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:52:00 GMT /news-partners/2019-12-16/heisman-winner-spotlights-hunger-in-his-hometown-and-food-pantry-donations-pour-in Laurel Wamsley /news/2019-11-21/after-hazing-indictments-collin-wiants-mother-says-there-are-no-winners-here Just over a year after the death of her son at Ohio University, Kathleen Wiant says the indictment of nine people is an important step toward finding… Thu, 21 Nov 2019 20:48:21 GMT /news/2019-11-21/after-hazing-indictments-collin-wiants-mother-says-there-are-no-winners-here Steve Brown /news/2019-11-19/nine-men-indicted-in-hazing-death-of-ohio-university-student An Athens County grand jury has indicted nine people in relation to the death of Ohio University student Collin Wiant.Wiant died at 45 Mill Street in… Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:49:27 GMT /news/2019-11-19/nine-men-indicted-in-hazing-death-of-ohio-university-student WOUB /news/2019-03-29/federal-shutdown-casts-long-shadow-over-southeast-ohio-food-programs Just off the main drag in Nelsonville sits the food pantry, and volunteers are loading up boxes with staples for a noon rush.“We have the cereal, and we… Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:00:00 GMT /news/2019-03-29/federal-shutdown-casts-long-shadow-over-southeast-ohio-food-programs Nick Evans