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The recording of Athens Mayor Steve Patterson’s lunch with county GOP leaders last week — a meeting the mayor requested — sounds more like an episode of “Fox and Friends”

Several people, including independent progressive candidate Damon Krane, expressed their displeasure Monday during City Council at recent reports about leaked audio of a conversation between Athens Mayor Steve Patterson and

Leaked audio from a private Republican luncheon on Tuesday reveals Athens Mayor Steve Patterson disparaging independent Athens City Council candidates — calling them “revolutionary socialists” — and failing to defend

The three Democratic candidates for the Athens at-large City Council race all missed last week’s Ohio University Student Senate student town hall meeting.

Five candidates are battling for three open at-large positions for the Athens City Council in the upcoming November election. The Athens County League of Women Voters hosted a forum Tuesday,

The Athens city Democratic Central Committee voted unanimously Thursday to appoint Ohio University LGBT Center Director Micah McCarey to an at-large seat on Athens City Council, replacing former Councilmember Beth

Iris Virjee, an Independent running at-large for Athens City Council, is in it for the everyman. Virjee, a bartender at the West Side’s Smiling Skull Saloon who grew up in Mount Sterling, Ohio, graduated from Ohio University with a degree in urban planning and a certificate in wealth and poverty in spring 2020, just as the pandemic hit. Amid the nationwide volatility of a health crisis that came to define the year, and a slew of personal hurdles, Virjee opted to forgo a professional career...