Feature - 1st place - Rachel Abke and her daughter Millie Abke, 5, attempt to open a jar of applesauce while gathering ingredients to make lavender cookies at their home in Perrysburg. Millie has an egg allergy, so the family, who has been participating in the Way Library Spice Club, substitutes applesauce in recipes. (Isaac Ritchey / The Blade)
Feature - 2nd place - Anglers are shrouded in fog and snow while fishing for walleye in the Maumee River. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Feature - 3rd place - A man walks past the mural on the side of the Springfield YMCA in the rain with an umbrella. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Feature - HM - Michael Long, 8, holds his head in his hands as his building teammate Elliott Lewis, 11, tries to fix a problem on their Lego robot at Sylvania STEM Center in Sylvania. (Lizzie Heintz / The Blade)
Feature - HM - Oregon resident Judy Zbierajewski (center) reads a book to granddaughters Cora (left) and Adeline Taylor, both 4, to escape an overcast day while babysitting the twins with Don Zbierajewsk at Toledo Lucas County Public Library. (Isaac Ritchey / The Blade)
General News - 1st place - Veteran Glenn Walker stood in his front yard and watched as a roofing crew layered rows of new brown asphalt shingles on top of his 124-year-old North Toledo home."I'm feeling good, I'm feeling good," said Mr. Walker, 69, the remnants of the old roof strewn around him. "You know how long it's taken me to get this. ... It's a blessing." Mr. Walker and his wife, Sheila, struggled a long time to figure out how to get a new roof. They dreaded big rainstorms, which would often trigger multiple leaks inside their small yellow home on St. John Avenue. Mr. Walker got his new roof installed with aid of the Lucas County Veterans Service Commission in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
General News - 2nd place - Friends of Donna Castleberry, Jordan Anderson, Lauren Talbott, and Myranda Anderson, comfort each other in the hallway outside Judge David Young's courtroom in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas building after a mistrial was declared following three days of deliberation by the jury in the case of former Columbus police officer Andrew Mitchell. Mitchell, 58, has been charged in connection with the death of 23-year-old Donna Castleberry on Aug. 23, 2018. (Barbara J. Perenic / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 3rd place - Ohio Governor Mike DeWine concentrates while using a syringe to move a liquid into a petri dish as Bowling Green State University student Cori Byrge, left, and Alexis Ostrowski, assistant director of the Center for Great Lakes and Watershed Studies looks on. The two, were showing the governor how to make hydro gel that is used for reclaims and recycles nutrients from wastewater like animal waste in dairy lagoons for reuse. (J.D. Pooley / Sentinel-Tribune )
General News - HM - The crowd roars while former President Donald Trump mentions his love for Ohio during an appearance at the “Save America Rally” to publicly endorse Ohio U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance (R) at the Delaware County Fairgrounds. (Isaac Ritchey / The Blade)
General News - HM - Ace Nelon Russell, 5 months, is all smiles after being baptized by Dr. Victor M. Davis, Pastor of the Trinity Baptist Church, during an Easter service. Ace is the son of William (right) and Lacey Russell of Gahanna. (Barbara J. Perenic / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 1st place - Matt Markoff worked behind the scenes on "Bath Salts," which is nominated for best rap song at the Grammy Awards. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Portrait - 2nd place - Nuvo Church lead pastor Patrick Holden is shown inside one of the children's play areas at the church in Dublin. The building was previously home to La Scala restaurant and is being converted to house the church which is slated to open Easter Sunday. (Shane Flanigan / ThisWeek Community News)
Portrait - 3rd place - Tom Wardell in front of flowers in his greenhouse at family-owned Wardell’s Garden Center in Waterville. (Lizzie Heintz / The Blade)
Portrait - HM - Model Alyssa Alleyne-Atherly of Polaris is painted by Lynn Hetherington Becker for an on-location photo shoot on Saturday, March 5, 2022. (Barbara J. Perenic / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports Feature - 1st place - Jerzee Metzler, 3, of Northwood puts her nose the glass as the Toledo Walleye take on Kalamazoo during the first period of an ECHL hockey game at the Huntington Center in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Sports Feature - 2nd place - Indian Valley's Laynee McDaniel check her grip during pole vault competition in Gnadenhutten. (Andrew Dolph / The Times Reporter)
Sports Feature - 3rd place - Toledo Walleye ice crew members carry walleye’s thrown onto the ice after a goal against Cincinnati during the first period of an ECHL Central Division semifinal hockey game at the Huntington Center in downtown Toledo. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Sports Feature - HM - After crossing home plate to score the winning run in the 10th inning against Dover, New Philadelphia’s Ellie Mason celebrates with starting pitcher Julia Miller (center), Miller threw 141 pitches in 10 innings for a 2-1 victory. (Andrew Dolph / The Times Reporter)
Sports Feature - HM - Columbus Blue Jackets center Jack Roslovic (96) celebrates scoring a goal with right wing Jakub Voracek (93), right wing Oliver Bjorkstrand (28) and defenseman Jake Bean (22) during the third period of the NHL game against the Tampa Bay Lightning at Nationwide Arena in Columbus. The Blue Jackets won 5-2. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
Spot News - 1st place - Toledo residents Tashia McNeirr (left) and James McNair avoid emergency vehicles and first responders battling an apartment fire while making their way to an Easter service at Briar Cliff Woods apartments in Toledo. (Isaac Ritchey / The Blade)
Spot News - 2nd place - Jeremiah Hughes, 20, of Toledo is comforted by his brother Deon Brown, 20, after the death of Hughes’s daughter, Desire Hughes, seven months old, who was shot in Hughes’s car in Toledo on Thursday April 28, 2022. (Stephen Zenner / The Blade)
Spot News - 3rd place - Toledo firefighters respond to a car fire at Caress Car Wash on West Sylvania Avenue in Toledo. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Spot News - HM - A firefighter sprays water on one of the two house that caught on fire on the 600 block of Federal Street in East Toledo. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Sports - 1st place - Gabby Michailides of Hoover has the ball bounce off her head during their game at Lake High School. She was not injured on the play. (Scott Heckel / The Canton Repository)
Sports - 2nd place - Toledo’s Matt Berry sticks his tongue out as he reaches for the puck during the third period of an ECHL Central Division semifinal hockey game at the Huntington Center in downtown Toledo. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Sports - 3rd place - St. John’s Jesuit’s Trey Lake (left) tags out St. Francis de Sales’s Josiah Erd slides into third base at Don Kober Field in Toledo. (Lizzie Heintz / The Blade)
Sports - HM - Bowling Green’s Brock Hastings tags out Perrysburg’s Ben Robeson as he tried to steal second base at Perrysburg High School. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Sports - HM - Ohio State’s Emily Armstrong and Ruby Remati perform their final duet routine during the U.S. Collegiate Championship for artistic swimming at Ohio State's McCorkle Aquatics Pavilion on March 27, 2022. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
- After being painted by Lynn Hetherington Becker of Dublin, model Lex Neuenschwander poses for photographer Renee Needham's home studio in Hilliard. Painting someone takes six to eight hours. Becker started painting Neuenschwander at 7 a.m. and they traveled to Hilliard for the shoot in Needham's garage at 1:30 p.m. (Barbara J. Perenic / The Columbus Dispatch)
Story - 2nd place - Lauren Cervetto, 28, of Toledo, coaches Stritch lifts, a general fitness class at Cardinal Stritch Catholic High School. Cervetto is the Head coach for cross country, indoor track, track and field and Stritch lifts. (Stephen Zenner / The Blade)
Story - 3rd place - Hideki Matsuyama hits his approach shot on no. 15 during the third round of The Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
Story - HM - Fifty-nine people from 27 countries become U.S. citizens during a naturalization ceremony at the University of Findlay's Koehler Complex in Findlay. Alfredo Blank, originally from Mexico, hugs his wife Cinthya Blank after becoming a U.S. citizen during the ceremony at the University of Findlay's Koehler Complex in Findlay. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
