Andrew Schottleutner, of Clintonville, took a lunch break at Whetstone Park last week to read.
“When you work 35 hours a week in a mall, you try to get outside as much as possible,” said Schottleutner, who works at the Starbucks at Polaris Fashion Place.
Photo by Dispatch photographer Brooke LaValley
Not content to view the same old perspective, Columbus College of Art & Design student Haley Behnfeldt climbed this blooming tree to work on a project for her Paint and Color Theory Class last week.
Photo by Dispatch photographer Chris Russell
Happy first day of spring, Columbus!
Top: Josie Wesseling, 5, tries out rollerblading at Goodale Park.
Bottom: Clinton Wright uses his iPhone to take photos of some of Goodale Park’s blooming magnolia trees.
Photos by Dispatch photographers Chris Russell and Shari Lewis
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Good morning from Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park!
Photo by Dispatch photographer Eric Albrecht
Oil and natural-gas companies eager to tap Ohio’s Utica shale insist that “fracking” poses no threat to people, but what about giraffes, rhinos and zebras?
American Electric Power leased the mineral rights beneath the Wilds to Anadarko Petroleum on Sept. 29. It was part of a larger deal that gave the Texas-based drilling company access to 150,000 acres of AEP-owned mineral rights in eastern Ohio.
John and Eve Clarke, of Galena, enjoy an afternoon walk on the Hoover Mudflats boardwalk in Galena.
Photo by Dispatch photographer Eric Albrecht
Ohio officials have long considered the Asian carp a dire threat to Lake Erie’s $10 billion-a-year tourism and fishing industries.
In 2009, DNA tests indicated the fish had slipped past a Chicago-area electric barrier meant to keep them out of Lake Michigan.
Now, building permanent barriers in Chicago’s canals and waterways could block the voracious Asian carp from invading Lake Erie, but they would take years to put up and cost taxpayers more than $3 billion.
Cue the Bon Iver — they can see for miles.
Danielle Puckett and Casie Zimmerman of Circleville take advantage of the unusually warm January weather to take in the view from atop Mount Pleasant at Rising Park in Lancaster.
Photo by Dispatch photographer Chris Russell
Ukraine native Nikolai Romanov, 72, walks through the Oak Savannah area at Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park southwest of Columbus.
Photo by Dispatch photographer Courtney Hergesheimer
Colo, the first gorilla born in captivity, turned 55 at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium last week.
Photo by Dispatch photographer Tom Dodge
