The City of Nelsonville announces that 5-Star Electric (Contracted by AEP) will be working on replacing utility poles along Adams Street starting today, Monday, January 5, 2026, and will continue through Thursday, January 8, 2026. During work Adams Street may be closed to vehicle traffic for small periods of time. Please avoid this area and use an alternative route.
The City of Nelsonville announces that the Public Square will be closed to traffic Saturday, December 6, 2025, at 12:00PM for The Nelsonville Area Chamber of Commerce, annual “North Pole Nelsonville” celebration and parade. There will be no parking allowed on the Public Square. Unauthorized vehicles will be towed away at the owner’s expense.
The North Pole Nelsonville parade will lineup at 5:00PM at the 1st Presbyterian Church on East Washington Street. The parade will start at 6:00PM and travel onto Jefferson Street, to East Columbus Street, then to the Public Square, traveling around the square and dispersing at the corner on Columbus Street.
Please avoid this area and use an alternate route.
The City of Nelsonville announces that there will be numerous paving projects over the next week which will result in NO ON STREET PARKING.
Please avoid these areas and use an alternate route.
The City of Nelsonville announces that the North end of the Public Square will be closed to traffic at the Washington Street intersections, from 8:00AM, Thursday, November 6, 2025, until 8:00AM, Friday, November 6, 2025. The street is being closed so that crews can repair the trench from the new waterline project.
Please avoid this area and use an alternate route.
The City of Nelsonville announces the following no parking and closure for West Washington Street.
The no parking and street closure is necessary due to sanitary sewer repair, concrete trench repair.
Please avoid this area and use an alternate route.
The City of Nelsonville announces that Columbia Gas of Ohio will be doing work around 532 Frederick Street starting today Thursday, October 23, 2025, until Wednesday, December 3, 2025. Their work may block the street to thru traffic. Please avoid this area and use an alternate route.
The City of Nelsonville announces that the Canal Street construction project is nearing completion. During the week of 10/20 to 10/24/2025 will be working on Burr Oak Boulevard, East end of Canal Street, and the West end of Canal Street. The work in these areas will cause street to become a single lane with flaggers directing traffic.
Please avoid these areas and use alternate routes. We understand the inconvenience this project has caused, and we appreciate your cooperation and understanding during this major construction project. For information call 740-568-3904.
The City of Nelsonville announces that West Washington Street will be closed immediately today Thursday, October 16, 2025, West of the entrance to Saving Hardware, until 5:00PM, Monday, October 20, 2025. The street closure is necessary for a sanitary sewer repair.
Please avoid this area and use an alternate route.
The City of Nelsonville announces that the Public Square will be closed to traffic Saturday, October 18, 2025, at 7:00AM until 6:00PM for a community yard sale. There will be no parking allowed on the Public Square starting at 6:30AM, Saturday, October 18, 2025. Unauthorized cars will be towed away at the owner’s expense. Please avoid this area and use an alternate route.
The Nelsonville Fire Department will be closing the Nelsonville Public Square on Thursday, September 11, 2025, from 7:30 AM until 11:30 AM for a 9-11 memorial service. Local first responders and the public are invited to attend. Watch a live streaming video without audio of the ceremony at http://nelsonvillechamber.com/index.php/live-stream. The memorial service will start at 8:46 AM, the time American Airlines Flight 11, flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Additional times will be commemorated at,
Local emergency responders, along with the citizens they protect, are encouraged to take time out of their workday to commemorate the terrorist attacks in New York City, and Washington, D.C., and the bravery of the passengers that went down with the plane in Shanksville, PA on September 11, 2001. The commemoration ceremonies will honor the 2,507 civilians, 72 law enforcement officers, 343 firefighters, 10 emergency medical workers, and 55 military service personnel who lost their lives, or gave their lives saving others. Many first responders are still fighting for their lives, and others are losing their lives, because of their response to Ground Zero. Each year we lose a few more.
Everyone is encouraged to take a few minutes and acknowledge the loss to the country and the victim’s families…mark the day, and remember…, so that WE WILL NEVER FORGET.
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