Messenger photos by Rick Palsgrove Paul and Shelly Clark, who operate Paddock Pub, spread Christmas cheer each year by sharing their collection of 286 holiday inflatables with the community. This is ...

Hamilton Township High School freshman Erynn Whitmer, and her dog, Hudson, visit Lock 30 on the old Ohio and Erie Canal in Locke Meadow Park in Lockbourne. The village of Lockbourne may be a small ...

The Recschool in Grove City is going home. This is a rendering of the Gantz Park Recschool Program Center. At a recent meeting, city council approved a development plan for the Gantz Park Recschool ...

Men loading a large block of ice on to an ice delivery truck at the Groveport Ice Plant in 1936. It’s winter, so I thought it would be cool to write about ice. I can recall from the days of my youth ...

Contractor’s bids for Groveport’s 2025 street maintenance program are due by late April. The city’s 2025 budget originally allocated $650,000 for this program. Groveport City Engineer Steve Farst has ...

An urban farm that has a mission to cultivate community connections as well as crops recently had its grand opening on the Hilltop. Messenger photos by Dedra Cordle On Aug. 27, dozens of government ...

Hang and his dog, Ann, enjoy a sunny afternoon splashing in one of the ponds at Prairie Oaks Metro Park. Hang, who studies biomedical engineering at Ohio State, has visited the park “many times” as it ...

The Obetz Zucchinifest is this Labor Day weekend featuring national musical acts, rides, games, a car show, arts and crafts tents, lots of food, a beer garden, and, naturally, delicious zucchini baked ...

The former schoolhouse on the Hartman Farms site. Hartman Farms, once a state-of-the-art agricultural masterpiece on Columbus’ southside at the turn of the 20th century, is up for rezoning after more ...

Should the city of Grove City change its form of government? A charter review committee says yes. Last year, the Grove City Council established a nine-member committee to review a potential change in ...

A long-planned project to build a new public safety complex on the westside is one step closer to becoming a reality. The Greater Hilltop Area Commission approved a rezoning request at its meeting ...

Messenger photos by Dedra Cordle The day before hundreds of recent and not-so-recent graduates of Grove City High School descended upon the area’s baseball diamonds for the oft-billed “world’s largest ...