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 ...

Canal Winchester and South - Covering Canal Winchester and entire Canal Winchester School District. Covering all of Obetz and Hamilton Township Groveport - Covering Groveport and the entire Groveport ...

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 ...

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 ...

London Correctional Institution celebrated its 100th anniversary on Oct. 7 with a ceremony, speeches, memorabilia display, refreshments, and unveiling of a memorial to past employees. Government ...

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 ...

Members of the Madison County Senior Center enjoy a morning match of chair volleyball. They play Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 9 a.m. and welcome whomever wishes to participate. “It’s a lot of fun ...

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 ...

Clearing honeysuckle at the new Bank Run Metro Park. A new Metro Park is taking shape near Obetz and Lockbourne Metro Parks officials say they hope to open Bank Run Metro Park, located at 1570 Rohr ...

Groveport Madison Cruiser pennant from the 1960s. As a young lad I had a penchant for pennants. As a kid in the 1960s I had a small collection of felt pennants pinned on my childhood bedroom wall, but ...

This is a front view of the renovated Scioto Southland Recreation Center (formerly Indian Mound Recreation Center.) Let the fun and fitness begin! Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther recently officially ...