Ohio agriculture has a problem.
The state’s farmers are aging and increasingly looking to retire. But aspiring farmers often can’t break into the field, unable to afford the steep cost of land and equipment to get started.
Trevor German knows these struggles first-hand. His family has owned a farm in northwest Ohio for more than a century.
The city of Bryan, Ohio has dropped charges against a pastor sheltering people in his church overnight.
Chris Avell faced criminal charges for violating zoning rules by housing people who are homeless in his church.
On the surface, the view from Ashley Stahl’s home outside of Fostoria in Seneca County might seem serene. Tall hills stretch across the horizon and peek above the miles of flat farmland that span the northern Ohio county.
Saturday was the anniversary of the Norfolk Southern train derailment in the Northeast Ohio village of East Palestine.
The train was carrying hazardous chemicals, and the accident led to a massive fire, a huge smoke cloud and lingering questions about the long-term effects of the pollution.
Every morning on February 2nd, a small crowd forms around a local radio station in Marion, about 50 miles north of Columbus. They’ve come from all across the state to answer a vital question.
“Is he going to see his shadow?” a WMRN radio broadcaster shouted to a crowd at the 2020 celebration, riling them up into a chorus of naysaying.
The lunchroom at Akron’s Findley Community Learning Center is filled with the sound of different languages being spoken: Spanish, Swahili, Nepalese.
When Cardell Belfoure was imprisoned at Grafton Correctional Institute in northeast Ohio, poetry was his refuge. Now that he has reentered society, he’s using his literary talent to center the stories of other formerly incarcerated people.
Lima city councilwoman Carla Thompson said many renters in her city are struggling against unsafe housing conditions. With an older housing stock and a growing rental population, she said tenants are vulnerable.
“I have seen multiple roach and rat infestations that no human should be living through,” Thompson said.
Atlee Kaufman opened Bentwood Solutions four decades ago. The Millersburg business’s original product was bending buggy shafts, which connect the carriages of Amish people like Kaufman to their horses. A few years later, he expanded to table and chair parts at a local Amish furniture maker’s request. He was so successful he sold off the buggy shaft division.
Ohio lost 30 newspapers between 2022 and 2023.
