City Council Candidates Iris Virjee, left, and Damon Krane, right, look at preliminary election results at the Skull in Athens, Ohio, on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. While neither candidate won the seat on City Council, they both had hope for their independent campaigns.
Sarah Haney pours homemade kettle corn into a bag to be sold at the Pawpaw Festival in Albany, Ohio, on Friday, Sept. 13 2019. Haney is raising money for a Hocking College student trip by selling kettle corn.
Jesse Brown, left, Dylan Erdmann, middle left, Ryan Doyle, middle right, and Clair Schmidt, right, begin their attack around a corner on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. Humans versus Zombies, a group that does role play attacks around Athens, prepares for a large game that can take up to 24 hours.
Lauren Dearth, left, joins Orion Hower in hugging Zion Foster, middle, after Foster struggled to get through an empowered speech about gun control in schools in Columbus, Ohio, in February, 2018.
Junior Ohio University player Emma Spinetto runs to hit the ball away from Ohio State senior Genevieve Penzone at Pruitt Field in Athens, Ohio, on Sunday, Oct. 6 2019. Ohio State beat Ohio University 6-1 despite their best efforts.
A Buddhist monk from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in India grabs colored sand to add to a mandala in Dublin, Ohio, on October 11, 2018.
Abby Miller, known by her artist name as Liv Abeelya, takes in the art of Courtney Kessel and Erin Pfahler during the opening of One in/and Seven art Exhibit at Majestic Galleries in Nelsonville, Ohio on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021. The exhibit featured various works by adjunct professors in the FIne Arts department at Ohio University.
Owsley Eggen, 6, begs his brother, Forest Eggen to stay and play with him at their house in Newark, Ohio, on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019. Owsley is into playing with robots and likes to show off his toys to his brother.
The Ridges, formerly known as the Athens Lunatic Asylum, is now owned by Ohio University and home to the Kennedy Museum of Art.
David Smart trims Ethan Perry’s hair on Tuesday, Jan. 21 2020, at Smart Barber Shop in Athens Ohio. All of the tools that Smart uses are from a barber shop in The Berry hotel that was demolished in the 1970s after being bought by Ohio University for dorm use in 1961.
Junior Joe Terry, from Ohio University, goes head to head with Nate Newberry of Bloomburg at the Convocation Center in Athens, Ohio, on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020. Terry has been wrestling for Ohio University for 3 years and won his match in the 174 pound weight class.
People in Lancaster, Ohio, gather in April, 2019, for the funeral of a beloved soldier native to Lancaster that died in battle.
Chuck Woodrum speaks to an attendant of Halloween in the Hills at Camp Wyandot in Rockbridge, Ohio, on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2020. Woodrum is the caretaker of Camp Wyandot and helps out at all of their events as well as takes care of the camp when it is not in season.
Marie Boozer spreads mulch around flowers and vegetables in her yard in Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday, March 25, 2020. In her spare time as a fifth grade teacher, Boozer finds joy in the world from getting her hands dirty while she works in her garden.
A worker welds together pieces for the large display called Dragon Lights in Columbus, Ohio, in November 2018. These lights are produced by a Chinese group that travels the country to put on this light display and share their culture with people in the United States.
