On Friday, August 1, The Vineyard Golf Course at Woodland Mound hosted the Southern Ohio PGA/Greater Cincinnati Golf Association Pro-Am matches. This event pairs local PGA golf professionals against some of the best amateur golfers…
Operations team members, perhaps more often than any other group of Great Parks employees, are routinely privileged to witness and experience both the wonder of nature and the forgiveness of natural systems to man-made damage…
Neither the forecast nor the weather could scare the fishermen away from the Bass Series tournament at Winton Woods Lake on Sunday, July 27. Despite forecasts calling for heavy rain and a possibility for strong…
Bass fishermen Greg Alsept was out at Sharon Woods on the afternoon of July 22, hoping to catch some big ones. Well, he got what he wished for! Greg caught more than 60 pounds of…
Joanne Tindall is June’s Volunteer of the Month! Joanne has been volunteering at Winton Woods Riding Center (WWRC) since early spring. She’s been a huge help to the Tuesday night Special Olympics class and has…
I once read that birds with a very simple call (think of a blue jay’s squawk) had it prewired in their brain, and birds with a more complicated call (like the melodic call of a…
Most commonly called fireflies or lightning bugs, these interesting insects are in fact a beetle and members of the family Lampyridae, Greek for “shining ones.” The familiar luminescent beetles are recognized for their nighttime display…
One of the things that make fishing so interesting is all of the factors that play into success. Everything matters: bait selection and presentation; boat position and structure; time of year and weather; and even…