Friday, May 8, 2026

A Marx toy collector, Francis Turner, has rekindled the dreams and memories associated with the former West Virginia toy manufacturer by opening of an Official Marx Toy Museum in Moundsville.

The Mahoning County chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society will hold a Nov. 3 beginning genealogy fall seminar.

OSU researchers have outlined a number of tests available to farmers that measure levels of herbicide and insect tolerance of such crops as corn or soybeans.

The show is scheduled Nov. 2-4 at the Mountain View Inn east of Greensburg, Pa.

High sale was a 1863 Sharps carbine with saddle scabbard that sold for $3,500.

The OSU Grape Research Branch in Ashtabula County, a 25-acre facility with research vineyards, hosts an estimated 600 visitors a year, most of them students.

Studded with enough impressive antique furniture and furnishings the sale drew a good sized crowd of bidders who came for more than just curiosity.

The cost of fuel ethanol has become a "crop" problem for USDA's Agricultural Research Service, which has a Corn-Ethanol Process Cost Reduction project that has been going on since 1997 at the research service's Eastern Regional Research Center in Wyndmoor, Pa.

Sally Stryffeler, who raises Pietmontese cattle in Medina County, has been named this year's recipient of the Paul May Award for her contributions to the World Beef Expo.

The newly released EPA "Fuel Economy Trends Report" reports the lowest fuel economy since 1980, and attributes it to the increase in light trucks on America's roads.