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An Amesville area woman drowned late Friday night after she and her husband left their stalled vehicle to escape rising flood waters, according to the Athens County Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff Pat Kelly reported that Barbara Cantrell, 74, of 16110 Linscott Run Road, was declared dead at 6:45 a.m. Saturday shortly after her body was recovered downstream from where her and her husband William’s car stalled out on or near Linscott Run Road.
The sheriff’s office had received a call from a Linscott Run Road resident at 11:52 p.m. Friday, reporting a vehicle stopped in high water on or near the road. William Cantrell had advised the resident that his car was stuck in high water, as a result of heavy rain, and that his wife had been swept away by the current.
Read more from The Athens NEWS or from The Athens Messenger (subscription required), The Post, WOUB, WOWK, or WHIO.
RELATED: ODOT looking into Friday night flooding in Nelsonville, allegedly from bypass runoff (The Athens Messenger, subscription required).
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New church to double as music/community center; Venue to kick off its opening with concert
This Friday, a new performing arts and community events venue will open in the uptown area, though this one will have a bit of a twist. In addition to providing seating for 300 audience members for concerts and other community events, Central Venue will serve as a church.
The grand opening event will feature vendors and a concert bill topped by national indie-rock darlings Southeast Engine of Athens.
The outreach of Central Avenue Church on Athens’ west side aims to connect the church and the local community at this new venue. Central Venue is located at 29 E. Carpenter St., in a building that for many years housed Auto Parts Warehouse.
Read more from The Athens NEWS. | Photo credit: Dustin Franz, The Athens NEWS.
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Although top Ohio Athletics officials vowed to finance the new multipurpose center completely by donations, two months after the initial deadline, fundraising remains short and student-fee dollars might be used to bridge the gap.
Despite fundraising difficulties thus far, Ohio Athletics officials say they are confident the remaining $1.1 million needed for the project can be raised in the next two to three weeks by targeting a handful of big-ticket donors.
Resorting to student-fee money to finance the facility’s construction, they say, remains highly unlikely.
Read more from The Post.
How often would the average (non-varsity athlete) student have access to this building? If it’s going to be a sort of alternative to Ping, it seems like it could be worth using general fees for, but if its use is going to be limited to Ohio Athletics, then there’s more reason for concern.
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ATHENS — Ohio University’s sports administration program has been named the world’s best postgraduate course by SportBusiness International’s postgraduate sports course ranking 2012.
“This ranking is a testament of our continued success in understanding the business of sports,” said Dr. Ming Li, head of the OU department of sports administration. “Our curriculum helps students get an academic grounding in the business of sport while ensuring they have the leadership skills and personality to succeed professionally.”
According to the SportBusiness, the department of sports administration was not only the sole course provider to get 100 percent of its 2009 graduates full-time jobs within the sports industry just 12 weeks after graduating, but it also achieved the highest total satisfaction percentage from the student responses to the criteria of quality of teaching, provision of job support and provision of extra-curricular support.
Read more from The Athens Messenger (free link) or from Ohio University College of Business or SportBusiness International.
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 Court rules university to repay former department director for missing relics
Ohio University will have to pay the former director of the Latin American Studies department more than $700 after the court ruled in his favor for his lawsuit about missing artifacts.
The relics were put on display Oct. 3 and were returned to Bruce Ergood on Oct. 25. When he was unpacking them he discovered a hand-woven red tablecloth, ceramic ashtray and two pairs of juarachis, or sandals, were missing.
Ergood decided to put the items on display after a suggestion from graduate student Erica Harding, who took the items to the center Oct. 3 and returned them to Ergood’s house Oct. 25, according to court documents.
Read more from The Post or from The Athens Messenger (subscription required). | Photo credit: Dustin Lennert, The Post.
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![Glouster cleanup campaign makes national news
A grassroots campaign to spruce up the appearance of the village of Glouster is drawing the attention of media at both the state and national level.
The work of a group calling itself the Glouster Volunteers, whose members have recently been putting fresh coats of paint and making other improvements on homes and businesses in the north Athens County village, has already been written up in The Columbus Dispatch. And on Friday, CBS correspondent Steve Hartman is reportedly scheduled to run a piece on the project in his weekly “On the Road” segment, which airs during “CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley.”
“CBS was here [Wednesday],” confirmed Glouster resident Terry Dugan Tuesday morning as he brushed pastel green paint onto the front siding of a house on the village’s main thoroughfare, Ohio Rt. 13. “They were here all day.”
Read more from The Athens NEWS or from The Athens Messenger (subscription required). | Photo credit: Dustin Franz, The Athens NEWS.
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A grassroots campaign to spruce up the appearance of the village of Glouster is drawing the attention of media at both the state and national level.
The work of a group calling itself the Glouster Volunteers, whose members have recently been putting fresh coats of paint and making other improvements on homes and businesses in the north Athens County village, has already been written up in The Columbus Dispatch. And on Friday, CBS correspondent Steve Hartman is reportedly scheduled to run a piece on the project in his weekly “On the Road” segment, which airs during “CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley.”
“CBS was here [Wednesday],” confirmed Glouster resident Terry Dugan Tuesday morning as he brushed pastel green paint onto the front siding of a house on the village’s main thoroughfare, Ohio Rt. 13. “They were here all day.”
Read more from The Athens NEWS or from The Athens Messenger (subscription required). | Photo credit: Dustin Franz, The Athens NEWS.
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Athens student one of top 50 in Google logo contest
Fifteen-year-old Athens High School sophomore Emma McLaughlin was the center of attention at the school on Wednesday as representatives from Google announced that her artwork is among 50 U.S. finalists in the Doodle 4 Google homepage design competition.
Emma created a Google homepage design as part of the Doodle 4 Google annual competition and has been named the Ohio finalist in the competition. Each state has a finalist.
“I’m excited,” Emma said following Wednesday’s announcement, adding that having all the attention on her was “weird.”
Read more from The Athens Messenger (subscription required) or read for free from The Athens NEWS, The Post, or WOUB. | Photo credit: John Halley, The Athens Messenger.
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 City wants to control fests, not stop them; In wake of arson fire, pressure’s turning up on city, OU
After an alleged arson at 11 Palmer St. effectively ended Palmer Fest for the third time in four years Saturday night, critics in letters and online message boards have been urging the city to ban the annual spring student block parties entirely.
But an outright ban on unsanctioned street festivals doesn’t appear to be where the city is headed. And Athens Mayor Paul Wiehl said at his weekly press conference Wednesday that he doesn’t see how the city could ban constitutionally protected rights of assembly anyway. Instead, city officials are opting for a renewed community dialogue and perhaps some administrative changes to the law enforcement approach to these events.
Shortly after 7 p.m. on Saturday, a fire broke out in the basement at 11 Palmer. A half hour later, Athens Mayor Paul Wiehl declared Palmer Street a “riot area” due to some partygoers throwing bottles at firefighters and impeding access to the fire. Law enforcement cleared the street and went house-to-house shutting down individual parties by 8 p.m.
Read more from The Athens NEWSor from The Post, The Athens Messenger (subscription required), WOUB, or The New Political. | Photo via The Athens NEWS.
EARLIER: City allows Mill Fest, others in limbo (The Post).
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A Buchtel man lies close to death in a Columbus hospital after an alleged assault, and the Athens County sheriff fears the man might succumb to his injuries.
Athens County sheriff’s deputies responded to 61 Main St. in Chauncey on Wednesday at 6:03 p.m. and found Harley Aaron Pruitt, 20, whose last known address is Buchtel, unconscious and not breathing. Athens County Emergency Medical Services transported Pruitt to O’Bleness Memorial Hospital and he was later flown to Columbus by a medical helicopter.
Sheriff Patrick Kelly told The Messenger this morning that Pruitt is in critical condition and he’s been told that Pruitt may die as a result of Wednesday night’s incident.
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