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Many times, small towns don’t have the support system to aid people returning from prison. Coalitions are forming in rural counties to help.
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The Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts will visit Ohio this week in an effort to better understand how to serve the state’s rural communities.
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Nearly one in five people in Morgan County in eastern Ohio is food insecure, even though the area is surrounded by farmland. New money from the state hopes to address that problem.
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Nearly a year after legislators made school vouchers available to all Ohio families, the program's use still lags in rural Ohio. Advocates are pushing to increase school choice in small towns.
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On June 12, 2023, Ohio’s public radio stations launched a new effort to expand reporting around the state. One year in, the newsroom has reported 245 stories from 53 counties, with more on the horizon.
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Bucyrus Copper Kettle Works opened in 1874. Today, the walls are lined with tools from that time, and it still rings with the sounds of crackling fire and swinging hammers as workers craft copper kettles.
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With more than 84,000 people, Ohio has the second largest Amish population in the country. The number is rising rapidly.
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School districts like Western Local in southern Ohio received millions of dollars in federal COVID relief aid. As those funds dry up, they face looming cuts.
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Airstream’s instantly recognizable ‘silver bullets’ are made in the farm town of Jackson Center before they hit the road.
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Brandon Adkins is the only openly gay man who has won a national go-karting championship. He wants to bring more members of the LGBTQ community into the motorsports industry.