Local Stories

  • Chicken Divan
  • A mural in Kenton, Ohio, of the famous Singing Cowboy Gene Autry
    Riding his sorrel horse, Champion, in scores of cowboy musicals, Autry helped to popularize country-western music with ballads like “Back in the Sa

  • A black and white photo of a person standing in front of a large boulder
    If you need a reminder that the world is held together by stone, then consider Ohio’s basement.
  • A group of young fishermen at a fishing competition
    Competitive bass fishing is strictly catch and release.
  • A black and white photo of a ship at sail
    Though the tragedy happened on Lake Superior, the most northerly, largest, and deepest of the Five Sisters, the story has many ties to the B

Power Lines

  • A hand holding a tablet with virtual text hovering above "It's summer time"
    by Craig Grooms
    Summer in Ohio brings hot weather — along with longer days that give us more time to enjoy it. But as we take in the season, it’s worth reflecting for a moment about something we rarely think about yet couldn’t live without: our electric power grid.
  • A group of lineworkers raising a nesting pole for a family of ospreys
    by Mia Taylor
    It was the end of May, the time of year when ospreys return to Ohio from their winter home in Mexico, and a breeding pair had decided that one of the utility poles in the training yard next to the co-op’s office was a good spot to build a nest.
  • Inside a data center
    by Jeff McCallister
    They are also super-sized users of electricity. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, data centers can consume as much as 50 times the energy per floor space as other types of commercial buildings.

Feature Stories

  • A black and white photo of a person standing in front of a large boulder
    by Craig Springer
    If you need a reminder that the world is held together by stone, then consider Ohio’s basement.
  • Rachel LaRue and one of her Toggenburg goats
    by Margaret Buranen
    That organization, based in Pittsboro, North Carolina, keeps track of rare breeds of sheep, horse
  • A mural in Kenton, Ohio, of the famous Singing Cowboy Gene Autry
    by Damaine Vonada
    Riding his sorrel horse, Champion, in scores of cowboy musicals, Autry helped to popularize count

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