Chris Welter
Chris Welter is an Environmental Reporter at WYSO through Report for America. In 2017, he completed the radio training program at WYSO's Eichelberger Center for Community Voices. Prior to joining the team at WYSO, he did boots-on-the-ground conservation work and policy research on land-use issues in southwest Ohio as a Miller Fellow with the Tecumseh Land Trust.
He is a graduate of Antioch College with a self-designed B.S. in Environmental Journalism and a French Language & Culture focus. He edited the The Antioch Record and later served as chair of the newspaper's advisory board. Through the college's cooperative education program, he interned with an environmental education non-profit in Ypsilanti, MI and worked as a paralegal assistant at a criminal defense firm in Chicago and a bankruptcy center in Philadelphia.
Chris is a lifelong Ohioan, born and raised in Columbus and currently living in Yellow Springs with his two cats, Beaver and Franklin. He moonlights as a mediocre disc golfer and also loves to cook, hike, and read about Ohio history.
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About a dozen community members, including representatives from the Dayton chapter of the New Black Panther Party and the mother of the arrested man, protested in front of the Safety Building in Downtown Dayton on Wednesday morning. -
For the first time since March, the investor owned utility has resumed shutoffs, but there are opportunities to help customers in need keep their lights on. -
The transfer of the nature preserve in Yellow Springs from Antioch College to a community non-profit was completed last week -
About 20% of Ohioans require an occupational license for their jobs. Among other things, House Bill 263 would eliminate the blanket ban for applicants who have committed a crime within the last five years. -
The visiting Centerville Elks defeated the Fairmont Firebirds 21-20 on Friday, August 28. -
The United States Board of Geographical Names approved Mud Run Conservancy's application for Coyote Run last month. -
There have been Black Lives Matter protests for thirteen consecutive weeks in Yellow Springs, and they will continue this Saturday. -
The facility breaks down organic material and converts it to methane gas, which is then harnessed as green energy. The by-products from that process is then provided to local farmers as a free fertilizer for their fields. However, nearby landowners have complained for years of foul odors, heavy truck traffic and possible groundwater contamination from the facility鈥檚 storage pond. -
The Guaranteed Energy Savings Performance Contract (GESPC) will help the city update its infrastructure and improve efficiency -
A 2.3 million dollar Ohio EPA loan will help the City update their water infrastructure
