This is an edited version of an article originally published on September 2nd, 2025 by Midstory.
North Ridgeville, Ohio, resident Deb Cipriani's day begins before the sun rises.
Betty Lowe's family has owned nearly 3,000 acres of forested land in the foothills of Appalachian Ohio for the last century.
Now, the property is open to the public.
The sun is still shining through stained glass windows of the sanctuary at St. Ladislas Church in Columbus. But the pews and the pulpit are gone.
Before northwest Ohio was filled with fields of corn and soybeans, it was covered in slimy mud and standing water.
Putnam County's Vennekotter Farms is more than five thousand acres. It's been in owner and operator Dennis Vennekotter's family since his great-grandfather founded it in 1906.
But, times have changed since then, Vennekotter said.
Built nearly two centuries ago in the early 1840s, the Hubbard House in northeast Ohio's Ashtabula County is old.
Docent Annie Reynolds is not.
"I learned in third grade about the Underground Railroad, and last year I came to the Hubbard House on a Girl Scout trip and I just loved it so much," the 11-year-old said.
This is an edited version of an article originally published on September 2nd, 2025 by Midstory.
A growing share of Ohio high school students are participating in career and technical education, according to a recent report from the Fordham Institute.
Nine months after a train derailed in East Palestine releasing toxic chemicals into the environment, locals were still feeling the effects — physically and mentally.
That's according to a new study published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress.
This article was originally published on April 11, 2025.
Blake Mathys grew up on a central Ohio farm, going to exotic animal auctions with his father. They collected Scottish Highland cows, Jacob sheep and even peacocks. If it had fur or feathers, it was fair game.
