🎢 Take A Look Back At The Glory Days of Wyandot Lake

Plus: 🫖 Le Creuset’s Factory To Table Sale Is Coming To Columbus

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Chelsea Wiley
May 20, 2025

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Hello, Tuesday! Chelsea here.

Chilly spring days are still hanging around, but summer is just around the corner. Most of Central Ohio’s seasonal attractions open this weekend after Memorial Day, which has me thinking about summers past. If you grew up in Columbus, chances are you spent at least one childhood afternoon drenched in chlorine, clutching a wristband, and running between paddle boats and bumper cars at Wyandot Lake. Long before Zoombezi Bay, it was the place for class trips, family outings, and early summer freedom. Today we’re taking a deep, nostalgic dive into the memories, chaos, and charm of a water park that defined growing up here.

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🫖 Le Creuset’s Factory To Table Sale Is Coming To Columbus And It Sold Out Instantly
Le Creuset’s buzzy Factory to Table sale is coming to Columbus, and it sold out within minutes. Here's why fans are so obsessed with this traveling cookware event, and what makes the brand’s pastel pots and mystery boxes worth lining up for.

Headlines 📰 

🏘️ Columbus is facing a housing crunch where rising construction costs outpace rent prices, making it hard to build affordable homes. A proposed $500 million bond aims to close that gap by helping developers lower costs and boost housing supply across the city. (Axios Columbus)

💵 The Shawnee Tribe is fighting to preserve its endangered language through a federal grant program, but delayed funding and poor communication from federal agencies have put the program’s future at risk. With fewer than ten fluent speakers remaining, the tribe says that language revitalization is essential to maintaining its culture, identity, and sovereignty. (WOSU)

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🌳 I’m such a sucker for a tree-lined street, and I’m fortunate to live on one. If I had it my way, this entire city would be a whimsical forest. But I’ll have to settle for little pockets here and there. We might not be the most tree-covered city, but hey, at least we have a tree that came from the moon!

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- Chelsea