Tag: Hancock

ODOT District 1 Now Accepting Applications For Annual “Paint the Plow” Competition

The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) District 1 is pleased to announce the return of the Paint the Plow program and is now accepting applications through Friday, March 11. The program has been on hold, missing two spring seasons, due to concerns regarding COVID-19.  High schools and vocational school groups within its eight-county region, including Allen,…

Remembering the Great Black Swamp

By: Patrick Troyer, Education Specialist “The soils were as black as midnight”, the saying goes. As we certainly all know, the area we now live and work in was once part of the Great Black Swamp where the woodland and wildlife were plentiful and plenty of swampland was to be found. It is said that…