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Athens Farmers Market Extends Hours
By: Rachel Bailey
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Forget about "Throwback Thursday." The Athens Farmers Market is looking to the future with new evening hours starting this week. Farmers Market manager Kip Parker said the added hours are… Read More
Sex-Offender Status Upheld In Steubenville Rape Case
By: Associated Press
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An appeals court has upheld the sex offender classification given to an Ohio high school football player convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl. Ma'Lik Richmond was given the second-toughest sex… Read More
Freedom Summer Remembered At Miami University
By: Tana Weingartner | Ohio Public Radio • WVXU
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When Berea College in Kentucky turned away groups planning to train volunteers to do voter registration in Mississippi, Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio gladly stepped up. Some 800… Read More
We Can Be Heroes: Athens County CASA/GAL Hosting “Fun Run” June 28
On this edition of Conversations from Studio B, host Joan Butcher talks with Jenny Stotts, Tara Huffman, Judge Robert Stewart, Jennifer Kirksey Fialko and Erin Morgenstern about the importance of… Read More
Daniel Keyes, OU Professor and Author of “Flowers for Algernon,” Dies at 86
Daniel Keyes, Professor of Creative Writing at Ohio University from 1966-90, passed away on June 15. Keyes arrived at Ellis Hall a year after his first novel—Flowers for Algernon—was published…. Read More
Quick Look: U.S. Arrests Benghazi Attack Suspect
U.S. troops arrested Ahmed Abu Khattala this week. He is a suspected leader of the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. WOUB's Julia Rabe reports.
Family Of 4 To Receive Habitat Home
By: Susan Tebben | The Athens Messenger
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This Friday, a family will see the product of more than 600 hours of their own labor, and the labor of numerous volunteers within Athens County, when they walk into… Read More
Quick Look: Ending LGBT Workplace Discrimination
President Barack Obama is expected to sign an executive order against workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity for government contractors. WOUB's Julia Rabe reports.
Change In Leadership Coming To Athens City Schools In 2015
By: Sarah Hawley | Athens Messenger staff reporter
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Changes are coming to Athens City Schools, but not quite yet. In a move approved by the Athens City SchoolBoard during Thursday’s regular meeting, current Supt. Carl Martin and Associate… Read More