This article was originally published on Sept. 5, 2025.
Built nearly two centuries ago in the early 1840s, the Hubbard House in northeast Ohio's Ashtabula County is old.
Docent Annie Reynolds is not.
Diane Gordon has led Toledo's Kwanzaa tradition for more than 50 years. She still remembers feeling starstruck at her first celebration in northwest Ohio in 1967 in her aunt's home.
Earlier this year, WVXU in Cincinnati hosted Next Gen Radio. The organization trains the next generation of journalists, teaching them how to report and produce a non-narrated audio piece. This week, we're sharing a few of their stories.
Earlier this year, WVXU in Cincinnati hosted Next Gen Radio. The organization trains the next generation of journalists, teaching them how to report and produce a non-narrated audio piece. This week, we're sharing a few of their stories.
Earlier this year, WVXU in Cincinnati hosted Next Gen Radio. The organization trains the next generation of journalists, teaching them how to report and produce a non-narrated audio piece. This week, we're sharing a few of their stories.
Over a decade ago, Neal Hoffman's son spotted an Elf on a Shelf. The magical toy pops up around Christmastime to tell Santa whether children have been naughty or nice.
Hoffman's son wanted one. But there was just one problem: the Jewish family didn't celebrate Christmas.
"I kind of made this joke and said, 'No, man, you can have mensch on a bench'," Hoffman recalled.
Monika Bowman is a communications specialist for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, and a lifelong birder. She'salso an artist, and now she is working on a unique art project that will bring her two passions together.
On a farm in rural Clark County in southwest Ohio, fallow fields stretch as far as the eye can see. In the middle of them, there's a 35-foot tower.
"You're looking at one of [Ohio's] first mesonet stations," said Aaron Wilson, the state climatologist of Ohio and an ag weather and climate field specialist with Ohio State University Extension.
Alex Haley had been sober for five years when he tried to return to work in rural northwest Ohio. But he was first introduced to drugs when he was just 10 years old, and more than a decade of substance use has taken a toll on his health.
Dressed in full feathered headdresses and sequined regalia, a group of Mexican folk dancers gathered last week inside a church gymnasium in Willard, a small town in northern Ohio.
To the beat of pounding drums, they stomped and kicked out their feet, the beads on their outfits jingling with every move.
