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  • Beer-Braised Pork Carnitas
    Good Eats
    September 1, 2023
    Crack open a cold one

    A bit of brewski adds a bold burst to this robust bill of fare.

  • Jousting at the Ohio Renaissance Festival
    Features
    September 1, 2023
    Back in time at the Ohio Renaissance Festival
  • Tiny Gallipolis is home to one of the nation’s most unlikely symphonic success stories.
    Features
    September 1, 2023
    Small town, BIG sounds

    Tiny Gallipolis is home to one of the nation’s most unlikely symphonic success stories. 

  • Drunken Cherries
    Good Eats
    August 1, 2023
    Pits top!

    Stone fruit might take a little extra work, but the reward is oh-so-sweet.

  • Beech Creek Gardens
    Features
    August 1, 2023
    Nature calls

    Beech Creek Gardens offers a multitude of sensory experiences.

Top Stories

  • With World War I well underway, Fred Norton joined the Army after graduating from OSU in one of the earliest versions of what would become the U.S. Air Force.
    The amazing Fred Norton
    Features
    September 1, 2023
  • Peggy Kelly (pictured at center) attends the Ohio Renaissance Festival both alone and with her family during the course of the event.
    Back in time at the Ohio Renaissance Festival
    Features
    September 1, 2023
  • When French refugees settled in Gallipolis, they brought with them a strong appreciation for the arts, resulting in the opening of the Ariel Opera House in 1895 at the height of the "opera house" movement.
    Small town, BIG sounds
    Features
    September 1, 2023
  • A trip down memory lane
    Co-op People
    Co-op People
    September 1, 2023
  • Spatulate-leaved sundew
    Meat eaters
    Woods, Waters & Wildlife
    September 1, 2023
  • Crack open a cold one
    Good Eats
    Good Eats
    September 1, 2023
  • A small crowd gathers next to the Ohio’s Electric Cooperatives Education Building during the Farm Science Review to watch South Central Power Company’s live line safety demonstration.
    Lasting lessons
    Power Lines
    September 1, 2023
  • Electrical wire with current
    Safety first
    Up Front
    September 1, 2023
  • Good Eats
    Pits top!
    Mango Avocado Salad
  • Early French colonial influence can be found all across Ohio, but notably so in the western part of the state, where, for example, the Holy Family Cemetery in Frenchtown has a sign at the entry that reads, “Heureux Les Morts Qui Meuerent Dans Le Seigneur,” which translates to “Blessed Are the Dead Who Die in the Lord.”
    French connection
    Features
    August 1, 2023
  • Beech Creek Gardens offers a multitude of sensory experiences.
    Nature calls
    Features
    August 1, 2023
  • The Wuebker family (from left): Gary, Brad, Angela (holding Levi with Ava in front), Todd, Nancy, and John.
    Never forgotten
    Features
    August 1, 2023
  • Visitors also can get up close and personal with a bevy of the farm’s residents, such as Bob, a Percheron horse.
    Past perfect
    Co-op People
    August 1, 2023
  • Did you know robins were once hunted and eaten by humans?
    Tastes like robin
    Woods, Waters & Wildlife
    August 1, 2023
  • Cardinal Power Plant
    The people powering our lives
    Up Front
    August 1, 2023
  • Bethany Schunn at Cardinal Power Plant
    Power brokers
    Power Lines
    August 1, 2023
  • Good Eats
    Do yourself a flavor
    Oven-Baked Tandoori Chicken
  • Impressed at how they were treated, many of the German and Italian prisoners who were held at Camp Perry returned to live in the U.S. after the war.
    Perry's POWs
    Features
    July 1, 2023
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American spirits Indian Creek Distillery
Silver bullet Riding the Miller Ferry with Mitten Kitten was on Lindy Brown’s bucket list, as is evident in this ferry cool selfie.
Have a funny wildlife story to tell? A deer rests in the middle of a forest.
Farm bill front and center U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan listens to a point during a meeting with leaders from Ohio electric cooperatives during the 2018 legislative conferences in Washington, D.C.
Answering the call: Co-op mutual aid A lineworker takes a chainsaw to a fallen limb.
Tastes like robin Did you know robins were once hunted and eaten by humans?
Co-ops can help members connect renewables to the grid Solar panels on a roof.
Honk! Honk! Canada geese

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