The heart of Mansfield, in north-central Ohio, isn’t a city hall or a sculpture or a fountain. It’s a carousel. Made locally in the '90s, it’s long been a cherished part of the community.
The stained glass windows that adorn the Mount Zion Baptist Church in Athens are covered in paper thin cracks.
They’re so fragile, one shattered earlier this year, when March rushed in like a lion.
If you walk through Worthington’s Olentangy Park at dawn or dusk, you’ll almost certainly find bucks and does moving from the edge of the park into residential yards.
Henry Lara, who walks there with his dog, said he loves seeing them.
“But also, they're staying here on the roads. They do walk around the neighborhood. They're not really afraid of people,” he said.
If you’re in the Midwest and someone asks if you’re any good at cornhole, chances are they’re out for blood.
Farmers across Ohio and neighboring states gathered this week to talk about the latest in agriculture innovations at the annual Farm Science Review in London, a town in Central Ohio. This year, automation was top of mind.
The U.S. Forest Service is proposing renaming the Wayne National Forest to Buckeye National Forest.
The move comes at the request of nearly a dozen indigenous nations, including Delaware Nation, the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, Osage Nation and the Shawnee Tribe.
A Supreme Court ruling in June struck down the use of race-based affirmative action in college admissions. In Ohio, most Black students at majority-white schools don't believe those institutions value them.
Sidaway Bridge is Cleveland’s only suspension bridge, built nearly a century ago for pedestrians walking between the city’s Kinsman and Slavic Village neighborhoods. But since a period of racial unrest in the 1960s, the bridge has been quietly frozen in time.
The Ohio School Bus Safety Working Group met for the first time this week. The meeting follows a crash last month in Stark County where a minivan struck a school bus causing it to roll over. An 11-year-old boy died.
Mike McGraw’s greenhouse in southwest Ohio looks different from the farms around it. He doesn’t rely on plots of soil. But, rather, bright blue tanks, filled with energetic fish that splash and dart at the sight of McGraw approaching.
“They're hungry, they're healthy, they're active,” McGraw said pointing at the fish. “That's what we want to see, all the time.”
