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When Botanist Thomas Lea went looking for plants in the 1840s, he did it in Northside and Cumminsville on the Ludlow estate and others. What was most striking were the wetlands where hundreds of lady slipper orchids bloomed. It was a very different place then, just a few decades after Cincinnati was founded, says UC Biologist Eric Tepe, who is working with Conover to log plants now.
Lea identified 714 species in 1844. His work was published posthumously in 1849. Many of his plant samples are in Pittsburgh. Tepe oversees the plant specimens (herbarium) in Cincinnati.
Botanist Lucy Braun did a survey in 1934 retracing Lea s steps and found nearly 8% were extinct. By this time, Cincinnati was more developed and the bogs had disappeared. She logged more than 1,700 plant species, publishing in the journal
Mother of murder victim advocated for new parole changes
Matthew Wood
and last updated 2021-01-11 18:01:21-05
CINCINNATI â A bill that will change Ohio s parole options, signed by Governor Mike DeWine on Saturday, was advocated for by a local mother whose son was murdered in South Cumminsville in 2015.
Suliman Abdul-Mutakallim was walking home with food for his family in June, 2015, when he was shot dead and robbed. When three assailants walked up behind him and shot him in the back of the head, they didn t even say stick em up. They just shot him, said Rukiye Abdul-Mutakallim, Suliman s mother.
From going down a bad path to being a water entrepreneur
Breontay Evans, 17, said he was heading down a bad path when he was 16 years old. Then, things changed when a neighbor showed him how to be a water entrepreneur.
and last updated 2021-01-04 11:58:33-05
SOUTH CUMMINSVILLE, Ohio â Every day 17-year-old Breontay Evans makes the 20-minute walk from his house to the corner of Beekman and Elmore streets in South Cumminsville.
Once there, he does a few pushups and stretches to gear himself up to make a few sales under the footbridge, where Evans sells bottled water and Gatorade from his small cooler with wheels.