The last print edition of The Athens News, a paper which has been published in print for just shy of 50 years, took place on ...

This week’s column is something of an experiment. Until now, my restaurant reviews have been of locations throughout Athens ...

Once those coal companies left the area, though, small communities in Athens and other southeast Ohio counties have been left to languish through no fault of their own, struggling with increasingly ...

As I said in my review of the Union Street Diner back in October, the diner holds a special place in America’s collective culinary consciousness. The modern diner initially began in New England with ...

UPDATE 2/18/2020: Bennett vowed on Twitter Monday night to return to Ohio University's campus with "an army of gun owners for an open carry walk through campus." While OU has a ban on concealed-carry ...

Following is the definitive history of Halloween in Athens — that is, modern Halloween in Athens. We really can’t say what those Ohio Company colonists back in the late 1700s were doing on Halloween ...

For this week’s column, I would like to begin by wishing all my regular readers a Happy New Year. I know 2025 was a difficult year for many people, me included, so I’m hoping this year will be less ...

A popular thing in fantasy football is to “buy low and sell high,” and it’s something that we’ve talked about before in this very same column. While those are both great options in how to assess ...

One thing I’ve learned about being a journalist is ideas for stories can often come from the most unlikely places. Sometimes, you’ve just got to be at the right place at the right time. While I was ...

Ohio University generated national headlines after moving to suspend the organizational activities of all 15 OU fraternity chapters in the Interfraternity Council (IFC) last Thursday in response to ...

As a child, one of my favorite things about the holidays was that I got to be creative and express my Christmas spirit through arts and crafts. There’s nothing quite like taking everyday household ...

When news broke in 2000 about the impending closure of Southern Ohio Coal Company’s Meigs County mine complex, worries abounded about the devastating impact that the loss of hundreds of local jobs ...