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If you’ve ever wondered what it feels like to be truly celebrated by your community, the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce has an answer. All you have to do is show up on August 5th. This year’s Athens Community Appreciation Party is happening at Eclipse Company Store in The Plains from 5:00 pm to …

The Love Grows Festival is a two-day event built around a simple but serious idea: love as action, not just sentiment. Love for people. Love for the planet. Love is the kind of radical, practiced, deliberate force that writers like bell hooks and thinkers like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spent their lives articulating. …

Juneteenth, June 19th, marks the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state were free, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect. The date has been observed in African American communities ever since, and was …

Athens, Ohio Roller Derby (AORD) is celebrating its Sweet 16th season, which kicked off last month. With a mix of home double headers, travel bouts, and a tournament appearance, there are still plenty of chances to catch a lot of the action this season. Home bouts are held at the Athens Community Center. Tickets …

If you’ve been paying attention to what’s been happening with Ohio’s public lands lately, you already know there’s a lot to be concerned about. Fracking on state parks, oil and gas deals made behind closed doors, communities bearing the brunt of decisions they had no say in — it’s a lot. The Great Ohio …

Gardening in Athens comes with a specific kind of frustration that anyone who has tried it knows well. You plant something, you tend to it, and then a deer finds it before you get to enjoy it. A lot of what gets sold as “deer resistant” at big box stores turns out not to …

Did you know that the pawpaw is one of America’s largest fruit trees? Pawpaw trees grow all throughout Ohio, and they’re also found in most of the eastern United States as well, bar only a few exceptions. The fruit produced by the pawpaw trees is ovular with mottled green skin covering it, but once …

When thinking about music festivals, the perennial ones tend to come to mind first. Coachella, Bonnaroo, Pitchfork, and Lollapalooza are only some of the popular festivals in the United States. But, did you know that a music festival with some bigger names attached comes once a year to southern Ohio? The Nelsonville Music Festival …

Once you get far enough into southeastern Ohio, it’s hard to ignore that you’re getting into Appalachia with the verdant, lush forests and fields and the rolling foothills that surround the region. The history is seeped into the land, and the influences are many, even when you’re living in a larger area like Athens, …

Running and sprinting about on an early spring morning in southeast Ohio is one of the best ways to start off your weekend, especially when it’s all for a good cause. OhioHealth’s Race for a Reason is coming back to the Athens area for its 11th year, and there are tons of ways to …