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A solar-powered Science & Nature Center built by an engineering team at The Ohio State University that placed among the Top 10 in the world for solar innovation

06/14/2026

I hope balcony solar’s charisma and low cost help us imagine the energy-abundant future we are so close to achieving.

03/22/2026

You saw a coyote on your street at ten AM and posted about it on the neighborhood app. Half the comments said rabid. Someone said to call animal control.

She's a nursing mother. And daylight hunting in spring is completely normal.

She has pups in a den nearby. They're a few weeks old and nurse around the clock. She's producing milk constantly and burning far more calories than she can find during dark hours alone. So she hunts during the day. Like coyote mothers across this continent have done for as long as the species has existed.

A rabid coyote looks nothing like this. Rabies produces staggering, visible disorientation, loss of fear, and uncoordinated movement. A coyote trotting purposefully through your neighborhood, checking storm drains and fence lines, and disappearing in under two minutes is a healthy animal on a route she runs daily.

She removes rats, voles, and rabbits from the area she patrols. She's been in your neighborhood for years. You just never saw her before because she wasn't this hungry before. Nursing demands more food than nighttime hunting alone can provide.

In about six weeks the pups start eating solid food. Her calorie demand drops. She goes back to hunting at night. You stop seeing her. And you forget she was ever here.

🐾 If you see a coyote during the day:

A coyote moving purposefully through a neighborhood in spring — trotting, alert, on a clear path — is almost certainly a nursing female foraging to keep up with pup demand. This is normal behavior, not a sign of illness

Don't approach, but don't panic. Make noise if she's closer than you'd like — clap, shout, bang a pot. A healthy coyote moves away from noise immediately

Keep small dogs and cats inside or supervised during dawn and dusk hours — these are peak coyote activity windows year-round, and the overlap increases when nursing mothers extend their hunting into daylight

A coyote that approaches people, staggers, or shows no fear of loud noise may be sick — contact your local wildlife agency. But purposeful trotting through a neighborhood is foraging, not a sign of anything wrong

The daytime sightings last about six weeks during pup-rearing season and then taper off as the pups grow and the mother's calorie needs return to normal

She's not lost. She's not sick. She's feeding a family and she'll be invisible again by June 🌿

06/23/2024

An energy-rich future is within reach

04/29/2024

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04/29/2024

Happy Earth Day! In New Albany, we're committed to environmental sustainability. Whether you're planting a tree, reducing plastic use, or conserving energy, every small step counts. Together, we can make a big difference. Let's keep our Earth green and clean for generations to come.

Find ways to celebrate with us at newalbanyohio.org/earth-month.

04/20/2024

New Albany - Plain Local Schools welcomes Pete Barnes as the New Albany E3 Learning Lab Teacher for grades PK-12 beginning with the 2024-2025 school year.

The College of Engineering is at it again!
04/12/2024

The College of Engineering is at it again!

04/09/2024

Depending on your age, this title is either a famous line spoken by T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), or by the android David in Prometheus (2012). In the world of nature, patience is a virtue. It can take anywhere from a decade to several decades for a single tree to reach maturity. This...

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