Erin Gottsacker
Reporter, Ohio Newsroom at The Statehouse News Bureau
Host at Local Newscast
Radio reporter for The Ohio Newsroom. Previously @WXPR and @PeaceCorps Ethiopia. Seeking small town stories. Reach me: [email protected].
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1 week ago |
ideastream.org | Erin Gottsacker
Outside the Harrison Township Fire Department, in Pickaway County south of Columbus, a car erupted into flames. As black smoke billowed from its open windows, a trio of firefighters aimed a thick hose toward the blaze. No one was hurt in this car fire. It was a test to see if the SoyFoam firefighters sprayed onto the flames could successfully smother them. “I've never used the SoyFoam product before.
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2 weeks ago |
ideastream.org | Erin Gottsacker
Schools in impoverished areas tend to have lower rates of reading proficiency. But one Ohio district is bucking the trend: Steubenville City Schools. The Rust Belt district boasts one of the highest reading proficiency scores in the state despite its high poverty rate. Chad Aldeman wrote a column last week titled "Why Steubenville, Ohio, Might Be the Best School District in America" for The 74 Million, a nonprofit news organization focused on education.
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2 weeks ago |
wosu.org | Erin Gottsacker
Ahead of their rehearsal at a small theater in Yellow Springs, members of a community choir pulled out sheet music to the tune of a tinkering piano. As their chatter turned to whispers, guest conductor David Brown launched the group into its first song: not Beethoven, but Beyonce. “I want to leave my footprints on the sands of time, knowing there was something that I left behind,” a group of sopranos sang. Their melody is soft, but on May 1, it’ll be many times louder.
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2 weeks ago |
wosu.org | Erin Gottsacker
Dan Ramey Jr. was just starting his senior year at Chillicothe High School in September 2001. He watched the Twin Towers fall during lunch. “That's really what was the deciding factor of selflessness for country,” he said. “That really struck me as a call to arms.”The decision to serve in the U.S. Air Force was easy, he said. Coming home as a veteran six years later was not. “I did a lot of struggling outside of the government work that I did in the military,” Ramey said.
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3 weeks ago |
ideastream.org | Erin Gottsacker
In November, an Athens city employee got an email regarding payment for the construction of a new fire station. Shortly after, the city paid an invoice for more than $700,000. But the money never reached the construction firm it was intended for. Instead, the city of Athens was the victim of a sophisticated cyber attack. It’s not alone. In 2023, the Granville Recreation District lost $713,000 to a phishing scam and a cyber attack cost West Clermont Local Schools $1.7 million.
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