This article was originally published on Aug. 7, 2024.
Hal Jeter has been a family dentist in South Point, along the river where Kentucky and West Virginia meet Ohio, for nearly 30 years. He knows the dentist can be scary for kids, so he does his best to make tooth extractions and cavity fillings fun.
This article was originally published on Oct. 16, 2024.
When Maxx Richards was in sixth grade, they were having a really hard time at school.
“I went to my school counselor for doing self-harm,” they said.
If it weren’t for the colorful lights and holiday tunes marking Minford’s Christmas Cave as a seasonal destination, the entrance would be easy to miss.
This is the final story in a three-part series about the impact of solar tariffs on manufacturing overseas and in Ohio. The series was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
This is the second story in a three-part series about the impact of solar tariffs on manufacturing overseas and in Ohio. The series was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
Inside a factory owned by Ohio-founded First Solar, machine techs monitor screens as glass panels are sanded down, coated with a thin layer of cadmium telluride and tested. Automated machinery manipulates the panels in a maze of conveyor belts inside the massive warehouse.
The opioid crisis is personal for Brenda Ryan.
She started her nonprofit, Keys 2 Serenity, in Cuyahoga Falls after her own daughter, Sheena, passed away from an opioid overdose in 2016. Sheena was survived by her 5-year-old child.
Rob Eldridge collects scraps of his childhood. At his vintage toy shop in Xenia, the shelves are stocked with all the obsessions of his adolescence: G.I Joes, hot wheels and superheroes.
“That robot right there, that Shogun warrior robot from Japan,” Eldridge said, pointing at a menacing-looking cyborg. “That was my favorite toy.”
The Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen have been celebrating inland waterways for 85 years. The organization is dedicated to the people — and boats — of America’s river history. But now, they’re turning to the future.
When she was 10 years old, Logan Cover caught a glimpse of her future at a wheelchair basketball camp at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
“From then on, I knew that was the first college I wanted to go to, and I wanted to play basketball for them,” Cover said.
