Reader: People need educated about ‘wild’ animals
Editor:
There was an article in the local paper saying all 88 counties have to have a DWART — dangerous wild animal response team.
I went...
Judith Sutherland: Young man persists, despite hardships
Sometimes the most impressive lives bear unspeakable sorrow but the story is told with a glow of perseverance, or simply never told at all.
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Scott Shalaway: Meet the vireo, a singing bird of its own kind
During spring migration, warblers get lots of attention. Most are brightly colored and sing loud distinctive songs. Yellow warblers, for example, are common, beautiful,...
Put-in-Bay events commemorate battle of Lake Erie
On an crisp autumn day in the year 1813, Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry, in just his late 20s, altered national history and spawned a...
LETTER: Editorial unfairly singled out HSUS
Reader: I look my customers in the eye and they ask me what I feed my animals and how do I treat them. Customers — eaters — are asking these questions of us. They are trying to break down the wall of anonymity. We need to meet them halfway and tell them how their food is raised."
Susan Crowell: HSUS creates its own Ohio ag council to try and gain farming...
I wasn’t going to write about it. I truly wasn’t.
I was going to let last week’s news story by reporter Kristy Seachrist stand on...
FSA Andy talks planting season
Hello Again!
It took a while, but I think winter has finally lost its tenuous grip on us. The smells of spring are fully upon...
Judith Sutherland: Papa was a farmer
"She would gather the eggs in her apron, studying each one, deciding whether this one was a keeper egg or one she would take...
Dirt on Conservation: Ag plastic recycling project underway
I grew up in a recycling house and didn’t even realize it. My parents both grew up during the Depression and they would never...
Dairy Excel: Farmers get reprieve on fuel storage regs
The month of May has brought a nice stretch of weather for our farmers in northeast Ohio. This has allowed our farmers to get...
