Athens County Independent

2 days ago | athensindependent.com | Dani Kington

ATHENS, Ohio — Athens City Council on Monday advanced the first reading of an ordinance to appropriate $932,000 to cover the final payment of the new fire station headquarters on Stimson Avenue. Ordinance 0-63-25 approves the final payment to Pepper Construction for its work on the new fire station headquarters. The final payment includes $530,000 moved from the capital improvement fund to the safety services fund — of which $30,000 is new spending.

3 days ago | athensindependent.com | Dani Kington

MARIETTA, Ohio — On May 19, a combination of environmental activists, oil and gas producers, township trustees, water association employees and a state representative crowded into the same room at the Warren Water and Sewer Association in Marietta. The group came together over shared concerns with twin bills moving through the Ohio statehouse, Senate Bill 136 and House Bill 170.

1 week ago | athensindependent.com | Rebecca Onion

This recipe is, apparently, something French people find out about simply from reading the back of their chocolate bars, but I was deep in Dorie Greenspan’s Around My French Table when I acquired the knowledge that you can make a nice—even fancy!—mousse dessert with only four very standard kitchen-staple ingredients.

1 week ago | athensindependent.com | Dani Kington

ATHENS, Ohio — The Athens Conservancy and Ohio Department of Natural Resources are working together to protect a plant once deemed extinct, which grows in large numbers at the conservancy’s Baker Preserve. Athens Conservancy co-founder Phil Cantino first found the running buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum) at Baker Preserve in 2015. “Finding a federally endangered [plant] at an Athens Conservancy preserve – it was just great,” Cantino said.

1 week ago | athensindependent.com | Dani Kington

NELSONVILLE, Ohio — A civil case against former Hocking College police officer Cecil Morrison, who shot and killed Nelsonville resident Michael Whitmer in 2021, was terminated Wednesday, May 28, after both parties agreed upon its dismissal, pointing to a likely settlement agreement. The case was dismissed with prejudice. That means the plaintiff, Michael Whitmer’s estate, can never refile the same claim against Morrison. The attorney for Whitmer’s estate declined to give comment for this story.