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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…
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…
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…
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…