Potatoes, salt, and oil. That's all it takes to make the perfect potato chip, according to Paul LaGuardia, owner of Hartville Potato Chips. That, he said, and an acceptance of a certain occupational hazard.
For decades, a massive Cold War-era plant created weapons next to the small northwest Ohio village of Luckey. Residents of the rural community have long wondered how the former toxic plant might still impact them today.
Earlier this month, Bowling Green State University announced the creation of a new major: AI + X.
Stacks and stacks of plastic storage bins fill the closets, cupboards and corners of Casey Daulbaugh's home in Bowling Green. She keeps them neat and orderly, tucked away out of sight, but their presence on her mind is heavy.
Beside shelves of nonfiction and mystery novels, Chloe Gauthier tapped on the screen of a smartphone. She wasn't just scrolling – she was coaching.
In 1929, just months before the Great Depression, Harry and Alta Carle opened a neighborhood grocery store in the north central Ohio city of Bucyrus. Generations later, the store — and the city — has developed a reputation.
Ohio's Latino population has more than doubled since 2000. Much of that growth has concentrated in and around the state's big cities — but it's reached southern Ohio too.
A new bilingual podcast aims to share "the richness and diversity of cultural traditions of Latine communities in Appalachia".
In recent years, Ohio has made career and technical education a priority funding item.
During his 2023 State of the State Address, Gov. Mike DeWine talked about the benefits of young people learning trades like welding, carpentry and construction. The state invested $300 million in the expansion of these career technical education programs in Ohio high schools in its biennial budget.
When Chuck Klein gets his mail, he doesn't walk. He drives down a long gravel driveway onto a narrow one-lane drive, which eventually widens into a rural road surrounded by rolling farm fields.
"The property is 130 acres, of which 100 is woods," he said. "It's at the end of a dead-end road, very, very private. The only man-made lights visible at night are ours."
At Painesville's Cinco de Mayo festival in northeast Ohio, a troupe of folkloric dancers prepared to take the floor.
They held up full, brightly colored skirts decorated with ribbons of red, green, blue and purple and waited for the music to start. Then, they spun and swooshed their skirts, creating swirls of color through the air.
