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The memorial and funeral schedule includes limited in-person attendance and livestreaming as the priest’s family requests donations instead of flowers.
While responding to a friend’s Facebook post wondering what had happened to all the Canada geese at Strouds Run State Park near Athens, I recalled an article the newspaper I edited, The Athens News, ran years ago about the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ addressing the problem by ordering the euthanization of 46 “nuisance geese” at the popular state park beach. Hammers were used to execute that order, which prompted consternation among man…