At Painesville's Cinco de Mayo festival in northeast Ohio, a troupe of folkloric dancers prepared to take the floor.
They held up full, brightly colored skirts decorated with ribbons of red, green, blue and purple and waited for the music to start. Then, they spun and swooshed their skirts, creating swirls of color through the air.
Inside of the Young's Jersey Dairy in Yellow Springs, shelves of cheese curds dripped excess moisture onto the floor.
The CEO of Young's Jersey Dairy, Dan Young, pointed to a massive silver vat imported from the Netherlands filled with the uncut curds, ready to be converted into a variety of cheeses.
In the throes of the pandemic, people started noticing something odd: an uptick of negative reviews of scented candles, claiming they had no fragrance.
The trend line of the bad reviews coincided with spikes in COVID-19 cases. That's because one of the symptoms of COVID is smell loss.
President Donald Trump's trade war has led to higher costs for certain goods in the U.S. Products like aluminum, steel and barley have all faced tariffs in recent months – three key components in producing a can of beer.
Accessing health care in rural Ohio can be difficult. A shortage of providers, worsened by recent hospital closures, means some people have to go long distances to get care. With an older population and inconsistent access to broadband, telehealth is an imperfect solution.
On an early spring day, lkids lined up outside the Cincinnati's Zoo's giraffe habitat, waiting for an opportunity to feed the animals over a fence.
One of the giraffes, Zoey, ambled over, sticking her purple tongue out, swiping a leaf and biting down with a crunch.
Her afternoon snack wasn't grown on a farm thousands of miles away.
Thousands of people are descending in northeast Ohio this weekend for a sweet annual tradition: the Geauga County Maple Festival.
Founded nearly a hundred years ago in 1926, it claims to be the oldest maple festival in the country and the largest in Ohio.
Noble County Commissioner Allen Fraley says the opioid epidemic threatened the fabric of his rural eastern Ohio community.
"You couldn't go to a football game. You just couldn't go to church. You couldn't go to an ice cream social without knowing somebody's whole family was hurting," Fraley said.
Last week, Pixelle Specialty Solutions announced plans to close its Chillicothe paper mill.
When Tony Zartman first ran for Paulding County Commissioner in 2009, he said the local government was so poor, it could barely afford to replace a lightbulb.
"It was terrible," he said. "Our community was really strapped for funds for just the daily necessities."
Reeling from the Great Recession, the northwest Ohio county closed its jail and cut hours for government employees.
