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Athens City Roundup for April 5, 2012

Athens preschool programs being consolidated at Chauncey (The Athens Messenger, subscription required | The Post | WOUB)
Council opts to keep ban on drilling in wellhead protection plan — despite attorney’s warning (The Athens Messenger, subscription required | The Athens NEWS)
Fluoride opponents up in arms after being asked to keep comments to a minimum at Council meetings (The Athens Messenger, subscription required)

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Athens City Roundup for March 22, 2012

ABOVE: The road to closure at Chauncey Elementary (Ohio University School of Visual Communications via WOUB)
Law director still doubts city’s ability to regulate fracking (The Athens NEWS)
Athens planning commission mulls far east side re-zoning (WOUB)
Athens Town Hall meeting will address special needs housing (The Athens Messenger, free link)

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Athens City Roundup for February 27, 2012

ABOVE: District pain doesn’t end with Chauncey school closing (The Athens NEWS)
Athens City Schools only district in county to have retired administrators working in top-salary positions (The Athens Messenger, subscription required)
ICYMI, Athens mail processing center slated to close; impact on workers will be minimal (The Athens Messenger, subscription required | The Athens NEWS)

Photo credit: Ian Bates, The Athens NEWS.

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Athens City Roundup for February 24, 2012

ABOVE: No last chance: Unanimous decision calls for elementary’s closing (The Post | The Athens NEWS | The Athens Messenger, subscription required | WOUB | The New Political)
Athens postal processing facility to close (The Athens Messenger, free link | WOUB | The Columbus Dispatch | CBS News)

Photo credit: Gwen Titley, The Post.

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Athens City Roundup for February 23, 2012

ABOVE: Chauncey school’s fate to be decided at meeting (The Post)
Strip club wants not one, but four zoning permits (The Athens NEWS)
Wine shop sale goes through; case probably closed (The Athens NEWS)
Motion challenges group’s standing to sue over eastside project (The Athens NEWS)

Photo credit: Matt Hatcher, The Post.

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Athens City Roundup for February 16, 2012

Lang says strip club’s court motion “ridiculous” (WOUB)
ICYMI, Zoning board dissents from notion that parking is a business (The Athens NEWS)
A decade ago, OU, city had high hopes for controversial avenue (The Athens NEWS)
Fate of Chauncey Elementary School still up in the air (WOUB)

Photo credit: Dustin Franz, The Athens NEWS.

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Athens City Roundup for February 8, 2012

Residents voice various worries, particularly related to fracking, at town hall meeting (The Post | WOUB)
ICYMI, Athens water fluoridation controversy stays afloat (WOUB); RELATED: Lang: City can’t remove fluoride from water without breaking law (The Athens Messenger, subscription required)
Group seeks to preserve all of Athens City’s schools (The Athens Messenger, subscription required)
ICYMI, Council votes in support of abolishing corporate personhood (The Athens Messenger, subscription required)

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Despite deficit, levy not an option for Chauncey

Chauncey Elementary parents and faculty are scrambling for any alternative to the proposed school closure as the school board’s decision date looms.

But the Athens City School District needs about $7 million in to keep the school open — a sum that removes tax levees from the shrinking list of options.

The school’s fate will be decided at the Feb. 24 school board meeting and, though tax increases may seem to be a logical solution, Matt Bunting, Athens City Schools treasurer, said they are not a plausible answer to the budget deficit.