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The Ohio State Highway Patrol said there were more than 8,000 crashes in the state last year due to slick winter roads, ...
01/04/2025

The Ohio State Highway Patrol said there were more than 8,000 crashes in the state last year due to slick winter roads, resulting in 15 deaths.

All-wheel drive and anti-lock brakes only go so far when it comes to driving in winter weather. The Ohio Department of Transportation offers some safety tips on winter driving.

Township Administrator Matt Clark says noise complaints are up, and it shows how that part of Warren County is changing.
01/04/2025

Township Administrator Matt Clark says noise complaints are up, and it shows how that part of Warren County is changing.

The township between Cincinnati and Dayton is growing, and is now dealing with some growing pains.

01/04/2025
Ohio legislators come back to work Monday to start a new two-year session of lawmaking. Many have said they want to take...
01/03/2025

Ohio legislators come back to work Monday to start a new two-year session of lawmaking. Many have said they want to take up property tax law changes, which didn’t get much movement in the session that ended last month.

Many Ohio lawmakers have said they want to take up property tax law changes, which didn’t get much movement in the session that ended last month.

In Darke County, the USDA recently detected avian influenza in a commercial flock of nearly a million chickens.
01/03/2025

In Darke County, the USDA recently detected avian influenza in a commercial flock of nearly a million chickens.

Reports of dead birds came from Warren, Montgomery, Auglaize, Erie, Huron, Logan, Mercer, Richland, Sandusky and Stark counties.

Soup Joumou is a traditional Haitian dish served on Jan. 1, marking when Haitians gained their freedom from French colon...
01/02/2025

Soup Joumou is a traditional Haitian dish served on Jan. 1, marking when Haitians gained their freedom from French colonial rule in 1804. WYSO stopped by an independence day celebration in Springfield to learn more.

January 1 holds a double significance for Haitians and Haitian Americans, as the beginning of a new year and Haiti’s Independence Day.

We're excited to partner with Dayton Metro Library for our fourth year of the Tiny Stacks concert series. If you're a l...
01/02/2025

We're excited to partner with Dayton Metro Library for our fourth year of the Tiny Stacks concert series. If you're a local musician whose New Year's resolution was to seek new and different opportunities, you can apply to perform at one of our five concerts this year.

Local musicians can apply to perform at Dayton Metro Library branches in 2025.

Since asking for more community support, Gem City Market has already seen an increase in the number of people shopping e...
01/02/2025

Since asking for more community support, Gem City Market has already seen an increase in the number of people shopping each week and how much they’re spending.

The local grocery store needs to increase sales to meet its fourth anniversary in May 2025.

Okay, 2025. Let’s do this!Sending our best wishes in the New Year, and our appreciation for the support you have shown W...
01/01/2025

Okay, 2025. Let’s do this!

Sending our best wishes in the New Year, and our appreciation for the support you have shown WYSO over the last year.

Each New Year’s Eve, thousands of people in Port Clinton affix their eyes on a 600 lb. fiberglass fish. Cheers erupted a...
12/31/2024

Each New Year’s Eve, thousands of people in Port Clinton affix their eyes on a 600 lb. fiberglass fish. Cheers erupted as a crane slowly lowered Wylie the Walleye on the final night of 2023.

“We are considered the walleye capital of the world,” said organizer Kristina Tilson. “So why not drop a fish?”

The fishy festival is one of the state’s longest standing New Year’s Eve events. But Port Clinton is far from the only community that gets creative.

Some Ohio cities ring in the new year in style. They spend the last night of the year celebrating what’s special about their community.

We're kicking off the year in music with a special live session from The Smile. On January 1 during the noon hour of Mi...
12/31/2024

We're kicking off the year in music with a special live session from The Smile. On January 1 during the noon hour of Midday Music, we'll share live recordings from the band in Rome and Berlin. Tune in and don't miss out! 📻

Special thanks to XL Recordings and Beggars Group for helping us bring this to your radios.

Listen to speeches from the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize recipients: Victor Luckerson, Paul Lynch and Josh Carter on...
12/30/2024

Listen to speeches from the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize recipients: Victor Luckerson, Paul Lynch and Josh Carter on behalf of President Jimmy Carter.

The Miami Conservancy District activated its flood protection system in the wake of heavy rain that fell Saturday night ...
12/30/2024

The Miami Conservancy District activated its flood protection system in the wake of heavy rain that fell Saturday night and Sunday.

The Miami Conservancy District has activated its flood control measures after heavy rain.

LAST CHANCE to make your gift to WYSO go even further!Dayton’s House of Bread provides a free, nutritious meal every day...
12/30/2024

LAST CHANCE to make your gift to WYSO go even further!

Dayton’s House of Bread provides a free, nutritious meal every day to anyone who needs one. WYSO provides free, high-quality news and music programming to anyone who wants it. And both rely on the support of this community to meet these missions.

Give any amount to WYSO before midnight December 31, and two generous WYSO members will donate one meal to the House of Bread.

Amazon Web Services, Google, Ryan Companies and Bath and Body Works are collectively funding a $1.2 million wetlands res...
12/30/2024

Amazon Web Services, Google, Ryan Companies and Bath and Body Works are collectively funding a $1.2 million wetlands restoration at Buckeye Lake.

Major companies like Google and Bath & Body Works will pay to restore 11 acres of wetlands. The goal is to prevent recurring toxic algal blooms that have plagued Buckeye Lake.

Fran Ryan, a central Ohio resident and former staff member in President Jimmy Carter’s administration, remembers her for...
12/30/2024

Fran Ryan, a central Ohio resident and former staff member in President Jimmy Carter’s administration, remembers her former boss as honest, caring and someone who really worked hard at his job.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died on Sunday at 100 years old. He was a Georgia governor when he began his bid to b...
12/30/2024

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died on Sunday at 100 years old. He was a Georgia governor when he began his bid to become the 39th president on a campaign of decency, equality and freedom.

Former President Jimmy Carter served as president of the United States from 1977 to 1981, with a focus on human rights-centered policies.

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The Montgomery County Board of Developmental Disabilities faces a $8.9 million budget shortfall and says it will need to cut programs and staff amid increased demand and services mandated by the state. The board had planned to cut 62 full time staff and eliminate many services in its 2025 budget. But Montgomery County commissioners and the Human Services Levy Council responded with $5 million in emergency funds from the human services levy. The agency will still have to eliminate, phase out and reduce a number of programs and seven full time employees, said Montgomery County Board of Developmental Disabilities Services Superintendent Pamela Combs. “It's legacy programming that's been in place for decades,” Combs told WYSO. “I am hopeful and I am fighting for the funding because it is needed to maintain critical services for people with developmental disabilities.”

The large, grey planes flying from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are a common sight in the skies above the Miami Valley. Those planes are called C17s. They are the newest, most flexible cargo aircraft in the airlift force. WYSO's Shay Frank was able to visit the base recently and experience what it was like to fly in a C17 Globemaster III.

Ohio's voter registration deadline is Oct. 7! To make it easy, we have all the information you need on our homepage at wyso.org.

WYSO loves the Arcade!
WYSO loves the Arcade!

Last week the WYSO team gathered in the Chuck Berry Studio for training and Dayton Arcade tours with our friends from Cross Street Partners. We just love being downtown and part of the city's growth!

An art exhibition is coming to Dayton, featuring portraits of people who fought for peace from every country in the world. The International Peace Museum in Dayton is hosting a premier showing of the Project Peace Post art exhibit, which will run Sept. 6 - Nov. 2. The Peace Post art exhibit features nearly 200 digital portraits, printed and arranged in an eight by 25 foot installation. Each portrait resembles a postage stamp, complete with texturized edges like a real stamp sheet. The portraits depict public figures who have fought injustice across the world including Alfonso García Robles, Picasso, Ai Weiwei and more. The project was conceptualized and created in New York by Johnny Selman and Selman More on wyso.org.

For years, Black maternal and infant mortality rates have been alarmingly high - but these deaths are overwhelmingly preventable. WYSO talked with parents, policy experts, and medical workers about the push for solutions. Full story on wyso.org.

Today we celebrated the ribbon cutting for WYSO’s Chuck Berry Studio at @arcadedayton This studio and meeting space will be a satellite location in the heart of downtown Dayton. Thank you to everyone who helped make this space possible.

The 2024 Paris Olympics are underway and athletes are competing in more than 30 sports, including breaking, which makes its debut this year. Advocates of jump rope say why not add their sport to the games? It’s a good question when you consider 62 countries, and roughly 300,000 athletes around the world compete in the sport. At the forefront of the Olympic jumping quest is Shaun Hamilton, coach of The King Firecrackers team in southwest Ohio. Get the full story at wyso.org.

Many creatures across the state claim to be able to predict how long winter will last. There’s Poppy the Skunk in Lancaster, Benny the Bass in Buckeye Lake, Concord Casimir the Cat outside of Cleveland, Walnut the Hedgehog in Dayton; even a stuffed groundhog named Willie from Toledo. But, Buckeye Chuck is the state’s official groundhog. He has been since the state legislature declared him so in 1979. Kendall Crawford from The Ohio Newsroom goes behind the burrows to uncover the history of this tradition. Read more at wyso.org. . . . . . . . #TheOhioNewsroom #WYSO #GroundhogsDay

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WYSO gives voice to our community, our nation and our world with independent news, music and storytelling.

WYSO is the Greater Dayton area’s only NPR News station, and we carry their flagship programs, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Our own news department delivers local and state news plus public affairs programming and news specials. In addition to NPR, we carry programming from Public Radio International, American Public Media and PRX.

We have thirteen different local music programs, hosted by knowledgeable and dedicated music lovers, most of them volunteers who present hand-selected music from songwriters and bands that reach across generations.

WYSO began broadcasting in 1958, with 19 watts of powers, as a student-run station on the Antioch College campus, on the air for only 4 hours each day. Today, WYSO belongs to the community, with oversight from a seven-member board of directors comprised of community leaders. We broadcast 24/7 with 50,000 watts of power, reaching fourteen counties in southwest Ohio with a potential audience of nearly two million. WYSO also streams programming online 24/7 at wyso.org, available to audiences all over the world.