Wayne SWCD salutes Farriss family
Bill and Carol Farriss of Farriss Dairy Farm in Dalton received the district's 2001 Conservation Farm Award.
Big naked trunk in University Circle delineates the garden
The installation of a 40-foot artificial Great Cloud Forest tree trunk marks the beginning of construction of the Cleveland Botanical Gardens new and innovative glasshouse biodome.
Model railroads run flat-out through two weekends
The Youngstown Model Railroad Association is having its annual Fall Open House Nov. 3-4 and Nov. 10-11.
Pennsylvania, Ohio exhibitors win at KILE beef competitions
Championships were awarded in the Hereford, Highland, Shorthorn, and Limousin competitions. Armstrong Farms of Saxonburg, Pa., was premiere Shorthorn exhibitor.
Plants as weapons: Be aware, not alarmed
OSU plant-disease specialist says anti-crop bioterrorism is a threat to the United States but not a "gigantic" one.
Prion diseases: clues found for jump to new species
Scientists have found the adaption is a prolonged and subtle process, and the early stages of it are very difficult to detect.
Our greatest risk is our own panic
In this week's commentary, Editor Susan Crowell comments on risk and the fact that we are a nation that jumps to conclusions and is prone to panic. Not everyone, she says, needs to rush out and buy gas masks and take antibiotics without evidence of a threat.
Rural Ohio enduring conflicting trends
Today, 34 percent of Ohio's 11.4 million residents live in townships, outside the boundaries of a city or village. That's 3.86 million people, up from 2.7 million in 1960, when it was 12 percent of the state's population.
Russia lifts nine-day ban on U.S. meat imports
USDA Foreign Agriculture Service officials were successful in dispelling Russian fears of of anthrax transmission from meat products from Florida, and U.S. producers breath easier.
Taft’s ethanol plan political hype
A reader says the legislation Taft plans to support seems a token gesture rather than a plan.
