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This is the County in the Columbus, OH Metro Area With the Most COVID-19 Samuel Stebbins © Provided by 24/7 Wall St. Though vaccine distribution is well underway across the United States, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 33,741,500 reported cases of the virus nationwide -- and that number is growing every day. In the Columbus metropolitan area, located in Ohio, a total of 209,352 COVID-19 cases have been reported to dat...

Jul 14, 2021 A Hocking County man was sentenced to prison for the 2020 murder and dismemberment of a friend, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced Wednesday. Michael Thomas Dixon, 41, of Laurelville, was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for fatally shooting James T. Whitaker, 56, in July 2020. Officials say Dixon then faked a suicide note and dismembered and burned Whitaker’s body in an attempt to conceal the crime. “By murdering and then dismembering his victim in an attempt to ...

The Athens-Hocking County Solid Waste District is sponsoring a Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. this Saturday, July 17, 2021, at Hocking College Lot #3 in Nelsonville, Ohio. Residents of Athens and Hocking counties may drop off a variety of hazardous materials for disposal, at no charge. Proof of residence must be provided by showing a valid drivers license with your current address or a current public utility bill. Acceptable items include: Flammables: adhesive...

By Michelle Alfini Athens SHARE ATHENS, Ohio — In her home office, overlooking the rolling hills outside her home, Ohio’s poet laureate, Kari Gunter-Seymour, is never far from the people and places that inspire her.  Just feet away is a case, containing tokens of her family history, her grandparents’ marriage license, a faded photo of her mother surrounded by aunts and uncles, and on the floo...

Seth Britt’s dream might seem a bit unusual, as does the reality it became. The Box Hop, however, is a beautiful, comfortable and even elegant cabin, despite (or because of?) being constructed from three intermodal shipping containers, the familiar 40-foot-long steel boxes carried by semitractor-trailers or on ships. The Box Hop is a family getaway and rental cabin built by Britt and his wife, Emily. The structure is set on 18 verdant acres in the midst of the Hocking Hills. Although the fami...

Though vaccine distribution is well underway across the United States, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 33,056,400 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day. In the Columbus metropolitan area, located in Ohio, a total of 207,135 COVID-19 cases have been […]

As Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced the winners of the state's third Vax-a-Million lottery Thursday, he said more incentives are in the works.

By Ivory HarlowThe Hocking County Farm Bureau and Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) Center for Cooperatives partnered to create an innovative online experience for high school students to discover and explore careers in agricultural cooperatives. The virtual experience launched in May 2021. It is accessible through a website called Youth Cooperative Leadership Experience Online.

COVID-19: This is the Most Dangerous County in the Columbus, OH Metro Area Samuel Stebbins © Provided by 24/7 Wall St. Though vaccine distribution is well underway across the United States, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 32,706,300 reported cases of the virus nationwide -- and that number is growing every day. In the Columbus metropolitan area, located in Ohio, a total of 205,247 COVID-19 cases have been reported to d...

Central Ohio's unemployment rate fell to 4.5% in April, close to its pandemic low of 4.2% in November.