Erin Gottsacker
Reporter, The Ohio NewsroomErin Gottsacker is a reporter for The Ohio Newsroom. She’s especially interested in covering education and environmental issues in rural parts of the state.
Before joining the Ohio Newsroom, Erin reported on a large, rural area in the Northwoods of Wisconsin and hosted Morning Edition for WXPR Public Radio. There, she covered a range of topics from affordable housing to the environment to rural health care to Native American cultures. Prior to that, she was a Peace Corps educator in Ethiopia. A Cincinnati native and Ohio State graduate, Erin enjoys reporting in her home state.
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OhioHealth will close the labor and delivery unit at Grady Memorial Hospital in central Ohio’s Delaware County at the end of July. It’s the latest in a string of more than two dozen Ohio hospitals that have closed or consolidated maternity care since 2018. -
After Ohio Humanities lost federal funding last year, the statewide organization is announcing an organizational shift. -
Two years after it launched, the Buckeye State Tree Nursery in Zanesville is distributing its first round of seedlings. -
University of Toledo researchers have developed a system of buoys that slowly release algaecide into the surrounding water. -
The American burying beetle nearly died off decades ago. Here’s how a network of conservationists are reintroducing it to the state.
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Jalyn Thacker is aiming to create a safe space in his rural Ohio home by hosting the first Pride festival in Adams County. -
In her new book, “Incomer,” Bonnie Proudfoot uses poetry to explore what it was like to make Central Appalachia her home. -
Native American tribes across the country are revitalizing the game of lacrosse, including one with homelands in Ohio. -
The American Whistle Corporation has been making metal whistles in Ohio since 1956. -
The annual festival attracts around 80,000 visitors to Northwest Ohio each spring to witness the warbler migration.
