City weighs options for former Columbus Road fire station  – Athens County Independent

City weighs options for former Columbus Road fire station  – Athens County Independent

ATHENS, Ohio — With the opening of the new Athens Fire Department headquarters on Stimson Avenue last fall, the former AFD station on Columbus Road hasn’t been used in months. A temporary exception to the building’s disuse came during the winter, when The Gathering Place, a peer support program, established a facility-use agreement with the city to open the building as an emergency warming shelter. That agreement ended in March, and the building…