Emma Baum
A Portfolio of People-Focused Journalism
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By Emma Baum | July 8, 2024 | Originally Published in Beautiful Things After calling eighteen days in a row, I know not to hang up when my mom doesn’t answer after the fourth or fifth ring. Her phone is chronically lost, and I imagine her elbow deep in the living room couch or emptying…
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By Emma Baum | August 8, 2024 | Published in TheReportingProject.com When Licking Heights Local School District elementary students head back to the classroom on Aug. 15, many of them won’t just be entering a new grade. A redistribution of students among the district’s three elementary schools, designed to better manage rapid population growth, means…
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By Emma Baum | August 1, 2024 | Published in TheReportingProject.com Neighbors and emergency responders in Frazeysburg have called it a miracle: A tornado traveling 130 miles per hour strikes a small town without warning in the middle of the night and leaves just eight people injured in its wake. Sarah Caslow and Corey Roby,…
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By Emma Baum | July 17, 2024 | Published in TheReportingProject.com At the end of a long day of work, Nekole Alligood says goodbye to her charges, flips on the night lights lining the room, and closes the door behind her. Sometimes they answer back: a whisper of her name or a knock from the…
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By Emma Baum | July 1, 2024 | Published in TheReportingProject.com The Community Partners Council of United Way of Licking County met Wednesday, June 12 for its monthly forum series, which is open to the public and features a panel of experts on topics with local relevance, ranging from food insecurity to harm reduction. June’s…
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By Emma Baum | June 26, 2024 | Published in TheReportingProject.com While most 14-year-olds were enjoying a few extra hours of sleep and spending the afternoon at the local pool, Alaina Appleman spent the second week of her summer break presenting original research to a panel of judges at the National History Day Contest at…
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By Emma Baum | June 24, 2024 | Published in TheReportingProject.com A staple of fine dining and fashionable society since it opened its doors in June 1924, the Granville Inn kicked off its centennial celebration on Sunday afternoon with a revival of its bygone afternoon tea service. With tickets for the event selling out in…
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By Emma Baum | June 13, 2024 | Published in TheReportingProject.com Cory Bailey was in the bathtub early last Thursday morning when a tornado raced down West Third Street in Frazeysburg at a speed the National Weather Service estimates was up to 130 mph. She wasn’t seeking shelter in the windowless room or her basement…
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By Emma Baum | June 6, 2024 | Published in TheReportingProject.com As the doors of the Licking County Transit bus slid open to let off its only passenger on a recent Wednesday afternoon, two men hurried down the sidewalk, one trailing after the other. The bus, following the three-month-old “green line” from Granville to Newark,…
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By Emma Baum | April 4, 2024 It’s eight p.m. in a High Street laundromat and the swish of the washing machines and the hum of the driers are barely audible over the dissonant chords of the latest original song from a Columbus-based punk pop band. An old man opens the front door, the squelch…
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