Chris Welter
Environmental Reporter / HostChris 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 Antioch Record and later served as chair of the newspaper's advisory board.
Chris is a lifelong Ohioan, born and raised in Columbus and currently living in Yellow Springs with his cat, Beaver. He moonlights as a mediocre disc golfer and also loves to cook, hike, and read about Ohio history.
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Afromeals, a food company that currently operates in Dayton, Cincinnati and Springfield, will offer cooking classes in Fairborn starting in January. -
A Vandalia man has been indicted on 22 charges in connection with the shooting deaths of four of his neighbors.
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Unofficial results for the local congressional races that were on the ballot yesterday have been released. Incumbent Republicans did pretty well.
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Voters must be in line by 7:30 tonight to cast a ballot in the midterm elections
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Former President Donald Trump is at a rally for JD Vance in Dayton on Monday. Some have been waiting since Sunday and have traveled hours to get the best seat possible.
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Local company Woolpert received a fifty million dollar contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers. The Dayton geospatial firm will use the money to help government agencies map the entire coast of the continental United States, as well as Alaska and Hawaii.
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Dayton Children's hospital's intensive care unit has been full at times during the past few weeks. That’s as hospitals across the state (and the country) are seeing a surge in respiratory illnesses.
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Former Yellow Springs doctor Donald Gronbeck pleaded not guilty in Greene County Common Pleas Court to all the counts against him Thursday afternoon. He faces 50 charges in connection with alleged sex crimes.
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Donald Gronbeck was indicted by a Greene County Grand Jury last week. Authorities allege that over a period of several years, Gronbeck sexually assaulted 15 women, all of whom were his patients. More information has been released about a former Yellow Springs doctor who has been arrested and accused of sex crimes.
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A group called Vote Common Good that targets evangelicals who are not comfortable with extreme right-wing politics held a public training at Central Christian Church in Springfield for about 20 people last week.
