-
·
City officials, community members form group to provide trans resources
Athens County residents and city officials have formed Take Action Athens, a small, informal group intended to provide support, education, advocacy and awareness regarding transgender people.
-
·
Athens rejects municipal waste contract proposals, will reopen bidding
Athens City Council rejected both bids that it received for its 2023 municipal waste and recycling contract on Monday, after a contentious, months-long bidding process.
-
·
Committee: Here’s how to fix Athens sidewalks
After a year of research, the committee proposed 50 suggestions including establishing standards to assess sidewalk conditions, working with neighborhoods to make sidewalk plans and ensuring all repairs are made in compliance with the ADA.
-
·
Local activists urge Athens City Council to support abortion rights
Read time: About 4.5 minutes Updated to reflect the resolution passing. Athens City Council discussed a proposal from a local activist group to protect abortion rights at a Nov. 14 committee meeting. Athenians for Bodily Autonomy modeled its proposal on an ordinance Columbus City Council passed on July 25. If adopted as originally drafted, it…
