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When a 500-person job announcement hits a small town, the impact rivals a massive corporate headquarters opening in a big city. Ohio's small communities are punching way above their weight in job creation, and the ripple effects are transforming the entire state.
The Columbus Dispatch just created an entire reporting beat focused solely on kindness, celebrating everyday heroes making central Ohio better. Readers can now submit stories of local good deeds to be featured in regular coverage.
A new 117-megawatt solar farm in Highland County, Ohio just powered up using panels manufactured right in the state. It's proof that American-made clean energy can work at scale while boosting local communities.
Every single county in Ohio saw unemployment drop in April, with rates falling as low as 2.0% in some areas. Northwest Ohio led the charge with five counties landing in the state's top ten for job growth.
Ohio's capital just became home to the NWSL's 18th franchise, backed by a record $205 million investment. The city with deep soccer roots is building a world-class women's sports future.
The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority is launching eight affordable housing projects this summer that will create more than 6,500 jobs and pump nearly $750 million into the local economy. It's the largest construction season in the agency's 92-year history.
A volunteer-run cat shelter in Columbus is creating two communities at once: one for abandoned cats finding homes, and another for volunteers finding friendship and purpose. Colony Cats proves that caring for the smallest lives can create the biggest connections.
When a rare meteor exploded over Ohio, treasure hunters from across North America rushed to find fragments worth thousands of dollars. The six-foot meteor left behind 200 to 300 pounds of valuable space rocks scattered across northeast Ohio.
When a maintenance worker collapsed in cardiac arrest on an AMC theater roof, Columbus firefighters performed an incredible mid-air rescue using a basket stretcher and CPR equipment suspended from an aerial ladder. The quick-thinking team kept the man alive during the delicate descent, delivering him to the hospital with a pulse.
A Columbus circus performer just shattered the Guinness World Record for hair spins, completing 93 rotations in 30 seconds. Cyara Hotopp's achievement combines years of figure skating skills with circus artistry in a dizzying display of talent.
Two Good Samaritans plowed driveways for free during a historic Ohio snowstorm, helping strangers dig out from over a foot of snow. Their kindness sparked a reminder that compassion still thrives in local communities.
Ohio State University students who visited concentration camps in Poland returned home to share lunch and stories with 132 Holocaust survivors living in Central Ohio. The February gathering bridged generations, ensuring precious firsthand accounts aren't lost to time.
A Lake Middle High School teacher with 40 years of experience has been named Ohio's Genocide Educator of the Year for her dedication to teaching students about humanity's darkest chapters. Elisa Case will receive her award at the Governor's Holocaust Commemoration this April.
Accounting students at Ohio State volunteered to prepare free tax returns for low-income residents, securing over half a million dollars in refunds. They caught costly errors, helped people file years of back taxes, and taught struggling workers how to avoid surprise tax bills.
Ohio is installing 64 new electric vehicle charging stations across the state, including a Valley location in Hubbard. The $51 million federal investment, matched by $26 million in private funding, continues Ohio's leadership in making clean transportation accessible to everyone.
Nearly 200 small volunteer fire departments across Ohio are getting critical funding for equipment and training. The first-of-its-kind grant recognizes the backbone of emergency response in rural communities.
Ohio lawmakers approved $875 million to pay back nursing homes after the state Supreme Court found officials used the wrong formula to calculate Medicaid payments. The correction ends a dispute that shortchanged facilities caring for the state's most vulnerable elderly residents by hundreds of millions of dollars.
Inside five Ohio prisons, incarcerated volunteers are nursing orphaned opossums, injured squirrels, and vulnerable wildlife back to health. The program is giving both animals and humans a second chance.
The Columbus Dispatch just created a full-time position dedicated entirely to reporting good news and acts of kindness in the community. Kelly Tucker starts this week as the paper's first-ever Kindness Reporter, funded by the Center for HumanKindness.
When a horse fell through the ice covering a backyard pool in Ohio, firefighters worked together to pull off a tricky rescue. The grateful animal walked away safely with its owner.
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