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🏟️ A New Proposal Could Finally Bring Life Back To The Old Cooper Stadium. Maybe.
Plus: 🐮 A Highland Cow Caused ‘Udder’ Chaos On I-270
Chelsea Wiley
November 19, 2025
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Sponsored by Columbus Recreation and Parks ⛄️
❄️ Kick off the holiday season at WinterFest Columbus! Head to Bicentennial Park on Dec. 6 for a day of live music, seasonal craft beers, and bites from some of the city’s favorite food trucks. Presented by Columbus Recreation and Parks, this free downtown festival is the perfect way to celebrate winter on the Scioto Mile. For more info, head over to winterfestcolumbus.com
Hello, Wednesday! Chelsea here.
If you’ve lived here long enough, you’ve probably heard a few wildly different ideas for what to do with the old Cooper Stadium. Over the years, proposals have come and gone but this one actually feels like it has legs. The latest plan for the site brings housing, retail, and even a rooftop pickleball paradise to the long-abandoned ballpark, and honestly, it might be the first concept that seems plausible. After nearly two decades of waiting, we might finally be in the “something might actually happen now” era.
Navigator Feature Story: 🏟️ A New Proposal Could Finally Bring Life Back To The Old Cooper Stadium. Maybe.
🐮 A Highland Cow Caused ‘Udder’ Chaos On I-270
Commuters on I-270 got a surprise Monday night: a Highland cow named Marigold went rogue, shutting down the freeway for two hours. No one was hurt, and the cow now has a new home in West Virginia.
✨ These Metro Parks Are Twinkling With The Glow Of Charming Holiday Light Displays
Winter Hikes are back starting December 1, bringing festive lights, lantern walks and plenty of cozy moments to Columbus Metro Parks. Explore glowing trails all season and kick off the celebrations at Blacklick Woods.
🛍️ Not Your Mama’s Craft Market Returns To Dublin’s Bridge Park (And We Want To Give You Tickets)
If you’re ready to do a little local shopping this weekend, you’ve got to head up to Dublin for Not Your Mama’s Craft Market at Bridge Park! Tickets are nearly sold out, but have no fear! We’re giving away a pair of tickets so that you and your bestie can go check it out. Just hit reply to this email and type in the giveaway password, which you’ll find in the article above! Good luck!
Headlines 📰
👏 Rambling House is coming back, and the people who loved it most are the ones bringing it home. After a short-lived “final” show and a whole lot of behind-the-scenes hope, the beloved Old North venue is reopening under new owners who want to keep everything fans already loved intact. (Matter News)
👵 Columbus just released $6 million to help the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging transition into its new role as an independent regional agency. The move sets up COAAA to expand services across eight counties while giving its employees stability after a rocky, confusing year of change. (WOSU)
📚 Columbus Metropolitan Library workers are officially moving to unionize, joining the wave of suburban library systems that have organized in recent years. Hundreds of staff across all 23 branches say it’s time for a collective voice on pay, benefits, and the future of public libraries in a climate where those values are increasingly under fire. (Dispatch)
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Sponsored by the Greater Columbus Arts Council 🖼️
Explore Columbus through a new lens with the For Us by Us Public Art Tour curated by Lance Johnson. This self-guided tour highlights 11 inspiring works across the city, celebrating compassion, empathy, and connection through public art. Discover the pieces that bring our community together and experience art made authentically. For more info, head over to columbusmakesart.com
Coming Up 📆
🎸 11/19: Great Lakes Swimmers
🎵 11/19: Blue October
🎶 11/19: The Faint
✨11/21-11/23: Wanderlights
🛍️ 11/21-11/22: Ohio Made Holiday Market 2025
🎵 11/21: The Band CAMINO
🏈 11/22: OSU vs. Rutgers
🤩 11/22-11/23: Conservatory Aglow
🎸 11/23: Portugal The Man
🖼️ 11/23: Free Sundays at the Columbus Museum of Art
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