Today From The Ohio Newsroom

Berries for the highest bidder: why some towns are embracing produce auctions

Every Monday and Thursday at 4 o’clock, the Chesterhill Produce Auction springs into action.

A new Ohio playground allows kids of all abilities to play together

So far, the summer afternoons at Lincoln Park in Bryan have been packed. Kids zigzag their way through crowds, playing tag around swirling slides and taunting their parents to catch them if they can.

How does raw sewage end up in Ohio’s waterways? A new podcast has the answers

Cincinnati has a problem: every year billions of gallons of raw sewage end up in the city’s waterways.

The city has a combined sewer system, so toilet water and stormwater flow through the same pipes. Normally this water is treated, but if it rains enough, the system will overflow, releasing raw sewage straight into waterways.

Amid legal battle, the future of Ohio's school vouchers is uncertain

The first time Ohio school vouchers went to court was more than two decades ago. In 2002, the constitutionality of the so-called Cleveland Scholarship, which gave public school students taxpayer-paid vouchers to attend private religious schools came before the U.S. Supreme Court.

School voucher use has exploded. Some Ohio families can't take part

School vouchers have exploded in use in Ohio since last summer when the state legislature made all families, regardless of their income level, eligible for the private school scholarships.

School voucher use has surged in Ohio. But private school enrollment isn’t rising with it

As students mill around Indian Creek High School’s cafeteria, Superintendent T.C. Chappelear greets them with a smile, stopping to chat, complimenting one on his performance in the school play.

This weekend, Dean Martin’s Ohio hometown honors the King of Cool

Long before Dean Martin joined the Rat Pack, he grew up in Steubenville as Dino Crocetti. Each year, the eastern Ohio city honors his Ohio roots with a festival. The city hosts Dean Martin impersonators, trolley rides to significant sites of the singer’s childhood and even a Dino Dash 5k.

From a one-room schoolhouse to a department store, these are Ohio’s ‘most endangered sites’

A one-room schoolhouse in Akron. A 19th century era Episcopal church in Cincinnati. A century old department store in Columbus. All of these buildings have long sat empty, forgotten with time, and are now under threat of demolition.

'Today from the Ohio Newsroom' turns one today. Here's what we've covered so far

On June 12, 2023, Ohio public radio stations broadcast the first episode of Today from the Ohio Newsroom.

In one Ohio county, peers are filling in the gaps of behavioral health care

Ohio’s behavioral health care system is stretched thin.