Skip to main content

Columbus Freepress Local News & Events

Image
A hand holding a pastry that seems to be filled with yellowish fruit

Socially Just Dining: Doughasis

Doughasis, much like a proverbial oasis, pops-up in warm months the Granville Farmer’s Market on Saturday mornings from 9:30 am to noon and indoors from December through February at the Granville Elementary School. It’s fare will quench the…

// Opinion
Image
Man in his 20s with a bald head looking at the camera wearing a gray, white and black striped shirt

Death by fentanyl overdose in the Franklin County Jail

How did fentanyl get into a Franklin County jail cell and kill Brent Gibney? His parents want an answer to this question after their son Brent Gibney, 29, died at Grant Hospital on October 4. He had been found unconscious “in his cell” at the…

// News
Image

Edith Espinal remains in sanctuary despite ‘wake-up calls’ from Geo Group

With family and community support, Edith Espinal is striving to keep her spirits up as she lives in sanctuary at the Columbus Mennonite Church to evade a deportation order. But immigration enforcement is doing what it can to make sanctuary feel…

// News
Image
Two men on a stage, one with a guitar, one with a plaque in his hand

Community activists honored at annual Free Press Awards ceremony

In between dancing and singing along with protest songs and psychedelic music, Free Press readers helped honor four community activists at the November 13 Free Press Protest Fest and Awards ceremony. The event was held at Woodlands Tavern and…

// Opinion
Sign up for the Columbus Free Press email updates

Subscribe

Support The Columbus Free Press and help to sustain local independent journalism

Support OUR WORK