Fiddling Quebe Sisters from Texas to perform Friday at Happy Days Lodge in...
Park concert Friday The fiddling Quebe Sisters will appear in concert Friday in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. The Texas-based group is composed of sisters Hulda, Sophia and Grace Quebe. They were...
View ArticleCleaner Cuyahoga River is subject of a Friday Lyceum program in the Cuyahoga...
River lectureThe Cuyahoga River is no longer America’s burning river.Kyle Dreyfuss-Wells, deputy director of watershed programs for the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, will speak Friday in the...
View ArticleCelebrate spring wildflowers at Dowagiac Woods Nature Sanctuary in southwest...
DOWAGIAC, MICH.: Dowagiac Woods in southwest Michigan is one of the best places Up North to enjoy the sights and sounds of spring in April and May.The preserve, owned and operated by the Michigan...
View ArticleMusic of birds, frogs to be featured on Friday in Cuyahoga Valley Lyceum...
Bird and frog musicThe music of birds and frogs will be in the spotlight on Friday in a Lyceum lecture in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.The speaker will be Lisa Rainsong, a composer and naturalist...
View ArticleRiding the rails through West Virginia mountains from Durbin, Cass, Elkins
DURBIN, W.VA.: Old No. 3 is a historic steam-powered logging railroad engine.It powers the Durbin Rocket tourist train on runs along the pretty Greenbrier River through the Monongahela National Forest...
View ArticleNew report finds Belmont County remains Ohio’s drilling hot spot
Belmont County remains the drilling hot spot in Ohio’s Utica Shale, according to a new industry report.The production of natural gas in Belmont County compares very favorably to northeast Pennsylvania...
View ArticleOhio EPA aware of iron and manganese problems in Barberton’s backup water supply
A Summit County landfill for construction debris is polluting Barberton’s drinking-water wells.The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has been aware of the problem with iron and manganese in...
View ArticleBarberton relying on water treatment to keep algal toxins in Barberton...
In 2014, nearly 500,000 Ohioans in Toledo and the surrounding area were told not to drink their tap water for three days, after a toxin from an algae bloom in Lake Erie was detected.Now the Lake Erie...
View ArticleOhio electric bills may increase: PUCO to vote on deal to help FirstEnergy...
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio intends to vote Thursday on a controversial energy deal being promoted by Akron’s FirstEnergy Corp. that would boost customers’ electric bills by keeping two...
View ArticleState panel approves FirstEnergy’s request; company says electric bills will...
Electric bills for FirstEnergy Corp.’s 1.9 million residential customers in northern Ohio were expected to increase if the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved a deal to keep two older,...
View ArticleSharpshooters kill 350 white-tailed deer in Cuyahoga Valley National Park’s...
Sharpshooters killed the permitted 350 white-tailed deer this winter in Cuyahoga Valley National Park in what park officials called a successful first year.The deer reduction occurred on 16 nights from...
View ArticleNew Silver Creek cross-country running course to get parking, walkways,...
Summit Metro Parks is seeking bids to build parking lots and walkways at the new cross-country course in Silver Creek Metro Park in Norton.The project off Medina Line Road and north of Johnson Road is...
View ArticleBioBlitz completes count of plants, animals in Cuyahoga Valley
Scientists and volunteers on Saturday successfully completed their counting of plants and animals in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.The park’s first-ever BioBlitz, a 24-hour celebration of nature...
View ArticleYoungsters, adults enjoy stories, nature on Richfield’s Carter-Pedigo Trail
RICHFIELD: “Muncha. Muncha. Muncha” was what 3-year-old Phoenix Zelinski said as he loped down the wooded trail.That is the sound that the rabbits make when they eat Mr. McGreely’s crunchy vegetables...
View ArticleSummit Metro Parks’ Freedom Trail, Barberton’s Magic Mile win top trail awards
BRECKSVILLE: Two Summit County trail projects were hailed as gold-medal winners on Thursday by the Greater Cleveland Trails and Greenways Conference.The Freedom Trail being developed by Summit Metro...
View ArticleHouston rediscovers Buffalo Bayou with $58 million, 160-acre streamside park...
HOUSTON: I felt like I was pedaling toward Oz.I was pedaling through flood-plain fields filled with blossoming wildflowers as the Emerald City’s, er, Houston’s, skyscrapers kept getting closer and...
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