Oberlin College News

Here are three remarkable facts about motels in the U.S. that you probably don't already know: At least 1 out 2 motels are owned by Indian-Americans. Out of those Indian-owned motels, 70 percent are owned by Gujaratis, people with roots in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

Wayne Miller, associate professor of english at the University of Central Missouri since 2002, has received a Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing Fulbright Award to enable him to lecture, research, and write, at Queen's University, Belfast, on one of the most prestigious and selective scholarship programs operating world-wide. Created by ... (more)

More than 2,500 winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by U.S. colleges and universities were announced this week by National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

The Summer Marly Music Series begins June 3, at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. The acoustics of the Marly Room are some of the best in the area, and the hall itself is one of the most elegant.

For the first time in over a decade, there will be a contested election for Darien's Board of Education.

A Building Doctor Clinic for old-building owners is scheduled to arrive in the Portsmouth area on June 14-15. The clinic features Building Doctors Judith Kitchen and Lisa Adkins of the Ohio Historic Preservation Office.

The sustainability crisis has provoked an unexpected and dramatic response from academia.

I got a London call last week A from a Bob Apfel, a Brooklyn neighbor . It was pretty bold statement, but not entirely out of character.

Protesting in Chicago on Sunday, a group of college kids from Ohio were proud to be part of a bigger movement - but glad they didn't have to sleep on the ground."It's been really powerful to be here, to see people identify ways in which they're struggling against a lot of the same things," Oberlin College student Irene Milsom said.

Cloverleaf sophomore Jacob Dunbar, shown playing earlier this spring, earned his second trip to the state tournament.

Some artists just get better and better with time. Don Harvey , a longtime teacher, organizer, instigator, artistic chameleon and all-around Northeast Ohio cultural provocateur, is one of them.

The Darien Republican Town Committee nominated candidates for the fall election last week that include the current Board of Education chairman and a new registrar of voters.

William Henderson Foote was a black federal law enforcement official in America's Deep South at a time of heightened racial tensions, tasked with collecting liquor tax revenue from wholesalers and retailers in post-Reconstruction Mississippi.

Applause is an Emmy award-winning locally produced TV show that celebrates artists and cultural groups around Cleveland and Northeast Ohio.

Top seniors from the Cleveland schools are headed to some of the nation's most prestigious colleges in the fall.

Mumford Company was pleased to represent an undisclosed institutional seller in the sale of the Ramada Inn Elyria Ohio to Elyria Hotels, Inc.

Board members last month conditionally approved seeking a 1-percent earned income tax in August with a 2-mill drop in property taxes, if the tax was approved.

His ancestor, John Brown, was one of the founding families of Hampton in 1638, and built the first three-masted vessel there at the river near Perkins Mill.