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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 Sideâs 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 using her degree for what she described as the relative stability of work in a small town bar, desp...