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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) has announced that they will be giving a 30% discount to U.S. military members, active duty and veterans, for various services next month.

What You Need To Know

• ODNR and Great Ohio Lodges are offering a military discount for certain services throughout November
• The discount applies to camping reservations, rentals, cabins and resort lodges
• This discount works for active duty military and veterans

Those services, according to a press release, include:

• Camping reservations
• Getaway rentals
• State-operated cabins
• Resort lodge stays

“It is an honor to support the men and women who are and have proudly served our country,” ODNR Director Mary Mertz said in the release. “This is a great way for these heroes to make amazing memories with their families and friends at our award-winning state parks.”

The release states that this is in cooperation with U.S. Hotels. Check availability or make a reservation here for camping, cabins and facilities operate by the state. To get the discount, use code VETERAN25.

“This offer is subject to availability and applies to new reservations at open campgrounds, as well as new cabin reservations at Buck Creek, Cowan Lake, Dillon, Lake Hope, Malabar Farm, Mohican, Pike Lake, and Pymatuning state parks,” the release reads.

U.S. Hotels’ Great Ohio Lodges is also giving the 30% military discount next month for lodge rooms and certain cabins at the following locations:

• Burr Oak Lodge
• Deer Creek Lodge
• Hocking Hills Lodge
• Hueston Woods Lodge
• Maumee Bay Lodge
• Mohican Lodge
• Punderson Manor Lodge
• Salt Fork Lodge
• Shawnee Lodge

“Providing this discount to visitors at our beautiful and nationally recognized state parks is yet another way Ohio says ‘thank you’…

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The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is offering active-duty members and veterans of the U.S. military a 30% discount on overnight accommodations throughout November. The special discount applies to new reservations made for campsites, getaway rentals

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is offering active-duty members and veterans of the U.S. military a 30% discount on overnight accommodations throughout November.

The special discount applies to new reservations made for campsites, getaway rentals, state-operated cabins, and resort lodge stays from Nov. 1 to Nov. 30.

ODNR Director Mary Mertz said the promotion is a way to acknowledge the service of military members.

way for these heroes to make amazing memories with their families and friends at our state parks.”

To secure the 30% rate for state-operated facilities, guests can visit reserveohio.com and use the promo code VETERAN25.

The offer is subject to availability and applies to new cabin reservations at numerous state parks, including Buck Creek, Cowan Lake, Dillon, Lake Hope, Malabar Farm, Mohican, Pike Lake and Pymatuning.

Separately, Great Ohio Lodges, a division of U.S. Hotels, is also participating in the initiative. The company will extend the same 30% discount to all veterans and active-duty personnel for lodge rooms and select cabins at its nine properties through the end of November.

These properties include Burr Oak Lodge, Deer Creek Lodge, Hocking Hills Lodge, Hueston Woods Lodge, Maumee Bay Lodge, Mohican Lodge, Punderson Manor Lodge, Salt Fork Lodge and Shawnee Lodge.

To book with Great Ohio Lodges, guests can visit www.greatohiolodges.com and use the code VETERAN25 or call 1-800-ATAPARK.

Throughout the rest of the year, ODNR offers a 10% discount for active military members and veterans on camping and cabins. Disabled Ohio veterans can receive free camping year-round. Great Ohio Lodges and The Lodge at…

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Ohio has a lot of iconic foods: buckeyes, pierogis, smoked ribs that drip onto your plate in sticky, sweet glory. All fine, all good. But when I think of Ohio and food in the same breath, the first thing I taste is chili… Cincinnati chili, specifically. This isn’t your backyard chili, or a pot of beans simmered into something respectable; it’s a syrupy, spiced, almost perfumed sauce that laces itself over spaghetti, hugs hot dogs in coney boats, and begs for mountains of shredded cheddar. There are debates about beans. Yes, some purists say “never,” others insist they’re essential—but that tension is part of the dish’s charm. In fact, this chili is so iconic that someone once wrote a poem about it:

Red sauce kisses noodles tight,
Cheese drifts down like late-night snow,
Onions or beans? You decide,
Cincinnati waits below.

(Spoiler alert: the food poet was me)

It’s a dish that inspires art, after all. Cincinnati chili has turned up in songs, TV shows, and even the occasional quirky foodie memoir. It’s local enough to feel like a secret, universal enough to make strangers curious.

Pleasant Ridge Chili (officially the Pleasant Ridge Chili Parlor, which somehow makes ordering a bowl feel ceremonious) doesn’t mess around when it comes to chili. It’s tucked into the middle of Pleasant Ridge, a neighborhood of red-brick houses, tree-lined streets, and sidewalks where people actually nod, wave, and stop to chat like neighbors used to. It’s lively but unhurried, a place where someone will wave at you as you cross the street. Take a walk through Burnet Woods, only a few blocks away, or wander to the artsy installations scattered through the neighborhood—it’s the kind of town that rewards curiosity.

Step inside, and the diner is unapologetically old school: Cash only. Vinyl booths, a ceiling…

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By Stewart Huntington, ICT News

 

Stewart Huntington:
Janiyakuha Webster is a counselor ushering Stockbridge-Munsee students from their reservation in what is now Wisconsin to visit for the first time their ancestral homelands in what is now New York and Massachusetts. She wants to share with the youth something she experienced on the land.

Janiyakuha Webster:
Yeah, my first experience here was definitely like a wave that hit me. It was something that I couldn’t really explain, but it was definitely like it feels really good to be here. And I know the kids here too also feel that way.

Stewart Huntington:
In July, Webster made the 17-hour drive from Bowler, Wisconsin, with nine youths, to visit territory their ancestors were driven from nearly two centuries ago. It was the third year for the Youth Visitation Project, founded by Shawn Stephens through his organization, Red Road Reclamation.

Shawn Stephens:
Bringing them back to get in touch with our ancestral lands. We all grew up in Wisconsin, most of us never setting foot out here, especially in my generation. When I was younger, 99% of our people have never been out here. We are trying hard to help reclaim that identity, reclaim our culture, reclaim our languages, reclaim our children who are lost in the system.

Stewart Huntington:
Stephens too wanted to share something profound he experienced on his first visit to the homelands many years ago.

Shawn Stephens:
It just seemed very magical. When I came, it just felt like the ancestors were — you could feel them all around. Almost like, driving down the road, it’s almost like you could see them kind of peeking around the trees or something, watching us and happy that we were here. I couldn’t really…

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From Homeland to New Land: A History of the Mahican Indians, 1600-1830 (University of Nebraska Press, 2013), is by William A. Starna, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the State University of New York College at Oneonta.

This history of the Mahicans begins with the appearance of Europeans on the Hudson River in 1609 and ends with the removal of these Native peoples to Wisconsin in the 1830s.

Marshaling the methods of history, ethnology, and archaeology, William A. Starna describes as comprehensively as the sources allow the Mahicans while in their Hudson and Housatonic Valley homeland; after their consolidation at the praying town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts; and following their move to Oneida country in central New York at the end of the American Revolution and their migration west.

The emphasis throughout this book is on describing and placing into historical context Mahican relations with surrounding Native groups: the Munsees of the lower Hudson; eastern Iroquoians; and the St. Lawrence and New England Algonquians. Starna also examines the Mahicans’ interactions with Dutch, English, and French interlopers.

The first and most transformative of these encounters was with the Dutch and the trade in furs, which ushered in culture change and the loss of Mahican lands. The Dutch presence, along with the new economy, worked to unsettle political alliances in the region that, while leading to new alignments, often engendered rivalries and war.

The result is an examination of the historical record that may become the definitive work on the Mahican people from the colonial period to the Removal Era.

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BRINKHAVEN – The Mohican Valley Trail Board has been officially reactivated after several years of dormancy, marking a new chapter for the organization that helped bring the iconic Bridge of Dreams to life nearly three decades ago.

The board was originally formed in 1996 by a horseman’s group out of Fredericktown, Ohio.

Several members of that group played a leading role in raising the funds to construct the Bridge of Dreams in Brinkhaven, which today stands as the one of the longest covered bridges in Ohio and a central feature of the Mohican Valley Trail.

In recent years, the board became inactive and was eventually deactivated by the Ohio Secretary of State’s office.

However, following meetings with the Marketing Director of the Knox County Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Director of the Knox County Park District, efforts were undertaken to restore the board.

The Mohican Valley Trail Board has now been reactivated with the Secretary of State’s office and is once again recognized as an official 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Officers have been established to lead the renewed board:

• Chuck DeWitt, President
• Christopher Wyant (Brinkhaven mayor), Vice President
• Tami Ruhl (Knox County Public Health Department), Secretary
• Baihley White (Fiscal Officer for Brinkhaven and Brown Township), Treasurer
• Aden Yoder, Maintenance

With renewed leadership and nonprofit status, the Mohican Valley Trail Board is committed to continuing its mission of supporting, promoting, and improving the Mohican Valley Trail and the Bridge of Dreams for the benefit of residents, visitors, and future generations.

To find out more about supporting the trail, whether by donations or volunteer opportunities, please email mohicanvalleytrailboard@gmail.com

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According to The Scare Factor, Ohio is home to 144 haunted houses, with 11 added since last year. The website lists California as runner-up with 132 and then Illinois with 123.

Among local places, Akron’s Haunted Schoolhouse and Laboratory checks in at No. 5 on The Scare Factor’s rankings of best haunted haunts. Canton’s Factory of Terror follows at No. 6, with the Chippewa Lake Slaughterhouse and Mansfield’s Blood Prison at Nos. 7 and 8.

The scariest of the scary, according to the website, is Fear Columbus, followed by the Dent Schoolhouse in Cincinnati.

The site bases its rankings on places it has reviewed, visited or that are popular. Though it clearly ranks them numerically, it says, “This is not a ‘best of’ list.” Hmm, that’s kind of scary.

There are numerous attractions within driving distance offering everything from haunted hayrides to themed weekends and elaborate multi-house experiences. Todd Stumpf

The following is a list of some of the haunted places within a 30- to 45-minute drive of the area, depending on where you start:

Forest of Screams, Medina

1662 Medina Road (state Route 18), Medina, 3 miles west of I-71.

Dates: Weekends through Nov. 1.

Hours: Fridays and Saturdays from 7 p.m. to midnight and Sundays from 7-10 p.m. (box office closes 30 minutes earlier each day).

Tickets: $35 Fridays and Saturdays and $32 Sundays.

Speed Pass: $45/$42 gets you in faster, not first.

Attractions: Haunted Hayride, Haunted Trail and Haunted House, all for one price.

Website: www.Forestofscreams.com.

Chippewa Lake Slaughterhouse

5665 Chippewa Lake Road, Chippewa Lake, 5 miles north of I-76/I-71 interchange.

Dates: Fridays and Saturdays through Nov. 1 and Saturday, Nov. 8.

Hours: 7:30 p.m. to midnight.

Tickets: $30 through Oct. 11, $32 Oct. 12 through Nov. 1 and $30 Nov. 8.

Attractions: “Hollywood-quality” sets and professional actors, 70,000 square feet of horror.

Website: www.Slaughterhouseohio.com.

Mohican Haunted Schoolhouse

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The Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians were driven west by expanding European settler colonialism in the early 19th Century after calling the Northeast home for millennia. Now, the Wisconsin-based community is preparing to return to reignite its relationship with the homelands it’s missed for centuries.

“We traveled out east there to the homelands, and we found healing,” Wanonah Kosbab told WAMC. “So, we wanted to extend it to the rest of our people. And so, we started working together on how we could get our people back to the homeland so that they can start their healing journey as well and dance on the homelands and touch down where our ancestors were.”

Kosbab is a board member for the Homelands PowWow, a recognition of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians’ long history in the region that will take place on the grounds of the Darrow School in New Lebanon on Saturday and Sunday.

“The powwow is a gathering,” she explained. “It’s a celebration of people, of life, in this case, of land, and past stewards of that land, and current stewards of that land coming together, to share in community, to share meals, laughter, joy. It’s all about coming back together. And in this particular case, it’s important, because when we left them homelands, there was a lot of negative energy that was left behind. And so that negative energy just kind of sits there and stews, and it’s a stale energy. And so when we reconnect in a good way, we replace that negative energy with all of this good energy that we’re bringing by coming back together in community, in love this time.”

Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans member Ginger Stevens, who also sits on the powwow’s board, made her inaugural trip to the homelands – a region spanning…

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A Queensland school teacher who had a stash of more than 340 child abuse files had transformed into a ‘hyper-sexual’ gay paedophile after his 27-year marriage ended.

Father-of-six Paul Andrew Olney, 63, last week pleaded guilty to a string of child abuse material charges at Bundaberg District Court in Queensland.

Police retrieved files from four devices at his property, finding video footage of sexual acts committed on babies as young as two months old, bestiality, and written stories depicting child sex abuse.

One script involved a high school student engaging in sex acts with her male teacher in exchange for higher grades.

Olney is a former teacher and a navy veteran.

His lawyer Callan Cassidy told the court his client had a ‘relatively normal life’ before ending his marriage in 2017 and coming out as gay.

The court heard he then became involved in drugs and a number of hyper-sexual relationships.

Olney’s social media showed a rapid transformation from loving husband and father, who travelled with his wife and danced with his daughter at her wedding, to an out gay man with a taste for bizarre haircuts and piercings.

Father-of-six Paul Andrew Olney, 63, last week pleaded guilty to a string of child abuse material charges at Bundaberg District Court in Queensland 

Olney’s social media showed a rapid transformation from loving husband and father, who travelled with his wife and danced with his daughter at her wedding (pictured) 

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