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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has appointed Nancy Drake Hammond to the Ohio University Board of Trustees.

The Galesburg Rescue Mission has new leadership but it comes from a familiar face. The Board of Directors chose Renee Galvin after having worked as the Women's Director at the Rescue Mission since 2016 and has worked as the morning office manager. Renee is a Galesburg resident along with her husband Erik and two daughters. The vacancy was open for the first time in over three decades after Dave Scholl retired this summer. Since then, Jimmy Bennett has been serving as acting director. Just weeks ago, the Galesburg Rescue Mission celebrated its 80th anniversary in Galesburg.

“In the June 2 installment of The Athens NEWS, a writer was concerned about the integrity of Robin Webb: you needn’t worry. It takes a cynicism-naiveté combo not to see, when an agency’s public information officer calls press back to clarify that something was THEIR fault, that person has made a sacrifice regardless of who’s to blame. When tragic, avoidable issues occur, it is all too easy to point our fingers at dedicated caseworkers, advocates, and other staff — predominantly women — while ignoring actual problems (low rates of prosecution for sexual violenc...

Ohio University President Duane Nellis announced Thursday that he’s stepping down from his post on June 30, two years before his term was scheduled to end.

As of Tuesday, 5,121 residents have contracted COVID-19. The county’s first COVID-19 case, a male in his 50s, was announced on March 27, 2020, amid a state shutdown. A year ago Wednesday, the Galesburg Rescue Mission confirmed the county’s first case had been living there and was hospitalized at that time. Dave Scholl, director of the Galesburg Rescue Mission, said the man fully recovered and, due to protocols in place, no other residents contracted the virus, though several employees later contracted it elsewhere. “We’ve not had other residents staying here that have had it,” Scho...