Local
The Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine has added a mini mobile unit to its fleet, which includes two larger mobile health clinics. The college’s mobile units offer free medical services in the region. The mini clinic will be better able to travel on rural roads to access more isolated communities. (Ohio University)
Businesses on West Union Street such as Avalanche Pizza Slice House and the Habitat for Humanity ReStore continue to see declines in sales because of ongoing road work. The road is expected to remain one-way until November, but the city has contacted its contractor about expediting that timeline. (WOUB)
- Indy context: West Union Street construction was one controversial topic that drove attendance at the last Athens City Council meeting.
Applications are now open for low-income senior citizens who want coupons to purchase up to $50 in produce at farmers markets or roadside stands through the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program. (Buckeye Hills Regional Council)
The Hockhocking Adena Bikeway will be closed at Stimson Avenue beginning Thursday, April 18, for installation of an emergency and paddle-access boat ramp to the Hocking River. The path is expected to reopen in early July. (City of Athens)
Tickets are available for the Hocking College Foundation’s 6th Annual Spring Gala, which supports scholarships and financial aid to Hocking students. The event will be held Saturday, April 27, at The Lodge at Hocking College, 15770 SR 691, Nelsonville. (Hocking College)
Vibrancy is a student-led theater production company at OU which creates opportunities for Black and indigenous students of color to develop as leaders in the arts. The group’s current production, focused on the first genocide of the 20th century, will run until April 20 in Baker Theater. (Ohio University)
Regional
The Buckeye Hills Regional Council has opened pre-applications for Appalachian Regional Commission grants that support public and nonprofit projects promoting sustainable community and economic development in southeast Ohio. (Buckeye Hills Regional Council)
Former Gallia County wrestling coach and teacher Matthew Huck was arrested after his indictment on one count of rape of a former female student, as well as three counts of complicity related to his formerwife’s sexual abuse of students. Huck and his wife also face six related civil cases, in which the Gallia County Local School District and numerous school administrators are named as defendants as well. (Leeseberg Tuttle)
State
Sam Randazzo, the indicted former Ohio utility chair at the center of a corruption scandal related to the state bailout of an energy company, died by suicide. (Ohio Capital Journal)
An Ohio House bill to ban transgender people from using multi-person school bathrooms and locker rooms which correspond with their gender identity rapidly passed out of committee last week. The bill now heads to the full House for consideration. The bill also bans the institutions from offering multi-person gender neutral bathrooms. (Buckeye Flame)
Trumpeter swans were removed from Ohio’s threatened species list after a 28-year effort to reverse the species’ decline. The bird is the continent’s largest native waterfowl. (WVXU)
Recreational marijuana sales could begin in Ohio as early as June, sooner than initially projected. (Ohio Capital Journal)
