Stepping into the Columbus Washboard Company is like stepping back in time.
The walls are lined with antique washboards – their fading “Made-Rite” logos disappearing into sun-kissed wood. Beneath them sit vintage irons, metal wash tubs and an early model of a laundry agitator.
Ohio farmers have been in the corn and soybean business for a long time.
But now, some are entering a new market: carbon farming.
That’s when farmers increase the amount of carbon stored in the soil — through practices like no-till planting — in exchange for credits, which they can then sell to corporations trying to reach net-zero emissions.
A small crowd cheers on a bejeweled drag queen, as she struts onto a stage at the Olive Tree in Bellefontaine.
Despite being a 45-minute commute from Ronald Woodland-Wright’s home in Westerville, Woodland-Wright performs here often as Beariana Grande. Tonight, her pink makeup glimmers in the light of the disco ball as she lip-synchs to Taylor Swift.
The buzz of the cutters at Revive Station Barbershop in Warren often overlaps with a steady flow of conversation.
Barber Adrian Favors – known by his clients as Big A – is chatting with two young clients on a day in late February. He occasionally pauses his trimming to ask the boys about everything from sports, to school to their favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
Rural areas lag behind when it comes to cancer screenings.
The disparity has led researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center (OSUCCC) to analyze the best ways to reach the at-risk population.
A union representing Toledo Blade employees is renewing its efforts to secure a labor contract.
The last contract between the Toledo NewsGuild and Block Communications, the newspaper’s owner, expired in 2017.
Union members have been negotiating since then to secure a new contract, but have recently doubled down on those efforts after a change in union leadership.
Medicaid eligibility is being re-determined in Ohio for the first time in three years.
Ten minutes before St. Mary Church’s very last mass begins, the pews are already full, lined with people who spent a lifetime building memories between the stained-glass windows.
Nearly a million Ohioans don’t have access to broadband, and that could hurt voter turnout in those areas.
The birds awake before the sun on Saturday morning.
Chirping melodies to fading stars, they’re recognizable by song long before it’s light enough to make out their shapes against the sky.
“I think that's a Redwing calling back there,” Susan Brauning says, tilting her ear to the sky. “And there's a field sparrow that sounds like a ping pong ball dropping.”
