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Stone sign at opening of Salt Fork Park

Fracking delay rejected by Ohio court

Save Ohio Parks statement on court’s decision to dismiss appeal

 

Save Ohio Parks is disappointed that our appeal of the Oil and Gas Land Management Commission’s (OGLMC) decision to approve fracking lease nominations in our state…

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Save Ohio Parks files emergency stay to delay fracking bid approval

The Oil and Gas Land Management Commission (OGLMC) will meet Monday, Feb. 26 at 10:30 a.m.-but a Franklin County judge may stay its decisions to award oil and gas bids to frack Salt Fork State Park and Valley Run and Zepernick wildlife areas.…

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City meeting and map of area

“Zone In Columbus” may “Zone Out” South Side residents

When it comes to the last boomtown in the Midwest, certain Columbus neighborhoods make for unusual destinations for future residents to call home. And at first glance, the Far South Side near the Great Southern Shopping Plaza doesn’t seem like a…

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Book Review - Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of Kidnapping by Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae is the son of a white woman and a black man. In order to save Shane from the indignity and evils of being reared by his father, his mother’s parents kidnapped him when the boy was three years old. Surprisingly–but perhaps not given…

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