Wednesday, June 10, 2026

The Salem Historical Society has produced volume two of Salem's Historical Timeline, The Second Century, 1900-2003.

The Ohio Department of Agriculture has found no new signs of emerald ash borer in Ohio since April.

As slugs chew their way through fields, researchers and farmers across the country are looking to Ohio for help.

Visitors learn about George Washington's 1753 mission that sparked the French & Indian War and the communal Harmony Society of German Separatists who founded the town in 1804.

Lynn Fox, a local artist from Carrollton, will show more than 40 of his paintings June 22 from 1-4 p.m.

The public is invited to watch the bell being poured.

The 15-acre Muck Crops Branch, two miles south of Willard on state Route 103, lies in the heart of Ohio's salad vegetable industry.

Fine soil, high in organic matter, is black gold at the Brenckle family's muck farm near Hartville.

Participants will encounter abolitionists, free blacks, slavecatchers, runaway slaves, and everyday citizens of the Cuyahoga Valley on the tour.

In this week's commentary, Editor Susan Crowell offers a reality check and offers her take on surviving farm price forecasts.