In the small northwest Ohio city of Wapakoneta, one house stands apart. While it looks like those that surround it, its construction is different. Instead of being built brick by brick, it was 3D printed.
When Centrus Energy flipped three switches at its new plant last fall, it was a new beginning for an industry that had been dormant for more than a decade in the United States: uranium enrichment.
A billboard near the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant announces in bold letters: “The future is now for PORTS.”
The U.S. Department of Energy has spent more than a decade cleaning up this site, decontaminating and decommissioning facilities that were once used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons during the Cold War.
In a boutique off Lancaster’s main street, colorful cocktail glasses sparkle in the light of a chandelier. But, shop owner David Annecy’s favorite part of the store is much less flashy.
He often ushers customers past the shelves of bright glimmering glassware, toward a wall of black and white photos. They show women – with hair perfectly coiffed – painting on a factory floor.
A person's driver's license can be suspended for a whole host of reasons in Ohio and Sen. Catherine Ingram (D-Cincinnati) knows the headache that can result.
On the surface, there is nothing special about the dirt field Sarah Marshall is standing next to, just outside of Defiance. It sits off a country back road, empty and unmoving, like any other soybean field in northwest Ohio awaiting planting.
But, Marshall, adult services associate at the Defiance Public Library, knows better.
When Jennifer Harris found out she could get married during the eclipse, she knew that’s where she’d be saying ‘I do.’
“We were trying to find something more unique,” she said. “And when this came up, we just immediately were excited about it.”
On a spring day in the Wayne National Forest, a crew of hard-hat clad volunteers pulls weeds, trims trees and clears branches from a winding dirt trail.
Rob Call is among them.
In the summer, he’ll make the hour-long drive from Lancaster to mountain bike here nearly every weekend.
The last time Ohio experienced a total solar eclipse was June 16, 1806. The so-called Tecumseh Eclipse played a significant role in the legendary Shawnee leader’s fight against western settlement of native lands.
But a deeper look at the early years of Ohio history suggests the eclipse may be misnamed.
Fifty years ago, a tornado touched down in Greene County, killing more than 30 people.
In the years since, lots of attention has been paid to the impact on the City of Xenia and to the changes the disaster prompted in Ohio's emergency management system.
