As patrons lined up for a late afternoon pastry at Athens Bread Company, Tim McKenna prepped croissants. He pounded on a slab of dough and folded it over a stretched-out sheet of butter to create the pastries’ layers.
“God knows how someone figured out how to do all this but, once you get the hang of it, it’s just going through all the steps,” he said.
There aren’t enough mental health counselors in Ohio schools.
For every one school counselor in the state, there’s around 400 students, according to the American School Counselors Association. That far exceeds the recommended ratio of 250 students to 1 counselor.
In the last decade, Americans have felt the effects of climate change, from worsening wildfires out west to more severe heat
Technology is changing Ohio’s workforce. Recent developments in artificial intelligence, automation and machine learning have raised questions about the long-term sustainability of some jobs.
Oberlin in northeast Ohio has an ambitious plan to tackle greenhouse gasses. It wants to reduce its emissions by 75% by 2030, compared to its 2007 levels.
When Erica Abrams Locklear discovered her Appalachian grandmother’s cookbook, she was shocked by what she found.
It was filled with recipes for “traditional” mountain foods like apple stack cake and chow-chow, sure, but she also saw foods like streusel and Baby Ruth cookies.
Intel is trying to make sure it has the workforce it needs when it opens two semiconductor plants east of Columbus in 2025.
The new podcast Mary and Bill: An Ohio Cold Case looks at the murder of two college students, Mary Petry and Bill Sproat, that happened in early 1970 near Ohio State’s campus. The case has gone unsolved for fifty-plus years, but as he created the podcast, creator and host Justin Glanville found out the police have made new progress and recently identified a person of interest.
On an early Saturday morning, the River City Farmers Market comes to life.
Just blocks from the Ohio River, vendors set up shop under red, white and blue tents, advertising everything from fresh vegetables to locally raised meat.
Ten Ohio communities will be getting money from the federal government to put toward greener public transportation – including six in rural areas.
