Stories by Other News

Don’t make it so easy for thieves to steal your identity

Thursday, January 11, 2001 by Other News

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Identity theft is a rapidly growing crime. If you didn’t get a paper shredder for Christmas, you might want to buy one, suggests a family economics and financial management educator in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences. “One way to stop “dumpster divers” is to shred papers that contain private information,” [...]

Horses stand cold weather with careful management

Thursday, January 11, 2001 by Other News

Can horses tolerate winter weather? They can under the owner’s watchful eye. They can withstand temperature down to 13 degrees. Anything below that horses will need more energy to keep themselves warm.

Innovative Farmers of Ohio will look at financial realities of farming today

Thursday, January 11, 2001 by Other News

Group’s annual meeting Jan. 27 will spur a look at the bottom line in a new way.

Millport yearly weather report

Thursday, January 11, 2001 by Other News

Here’s what U.S. weather observer Edwin R. Copeland recorded about 2000 weather from his station in southern Columbiana County.

New corn viruses raise their ugly heads

Thursday, January 11, 2001 by Other News

Ohio State researchers have discovered two new corn viruses, one which remains to be identified.

Official scorers say Ohio deer a record

Thursday, January 11, 2001 by Other News

A white-tailed deer killed last fall in Greene County is an Ohio record and, if approved by national scoring organizations, could also be the largest deer ever taken by a hunter in the world.

Record number of rare plants found in Ohio

Thursday, January 11, 2001 by Other News

An unusually large number of new and rare wild plant species were spotted in Ohio last year.

Rediscovered folk art of Mayo family, father and son, introduced to public

Thursday, January 11, 2001 by Other News

The little known work of two generations of a family of central Ohio artists will be featured at the Columbus Museum of Art beginning Jan. 31.

Simple machines exhibited at Roscoe Village

Thursday, January 11, 2001 by Other News

Throughout February and March, Historic Roscoe Village will be displaying simple machines used during the canal era in the East Gallery of the Visitor Center.

Trumbull SWCD initiates watershed project that ignores state lines

Thursday, January 11, 2001 by Other News

Water quality project could serve as model for other watersheds that cross political boundaries.