Feature - 1st place - Harley Kimbale, 4, (left) yells as Knowledge Williams, 2, (center) hangs on to Payton McMillen, 7, while playing on the swing at Swan Creek Metropark in Toledo. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Feature - 2nd place - Richard Rozzell of American Legion Navy Marine Post 276 plays "Taps" after lowering of a flowered anchor off of the Broad St. bridge in downtown Columbus during Memorial Day. This was the 100th year that the post has provided this service on the Scioto River, through wars and crises and they have never missed a year. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Feature - 3rd place - Breonna Sexton celebrates graduating from Sylvania Northview High School as family members take her picture in front of the Franciscan Center at Lourdes University in Sylvania, Ohio. Lourdes University plans to have in-person education in the fall as does the University of Toledo amid the coronavirus pandemic. Miss Sexton plans on attending UT. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
General News - 1st place - A protesters looks up towards the sky while chanting "No Justice, No Peace" along South High Street during a George Floyd protest near the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 2nd place - Rainy Studer of Port Clinton covers her face with a protective mask while waiting for her hair color to process outside of the BeYoutiful Hair Salon on Madison Street in Port Clinton. Studer wanted to wait outside to enjoy the outdoors, social distance and watch people enjoy outdoor dining. Salons are now open for business as Ohio begins loosen restrictions amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
General News - 3rd place - Craig Gauger, an Air Force veteran who is part of the American Legion Post 28 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6170, salutes after placing a flag at a veteran’s grave at Fort Meigs Cemetery in Perrysburg. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
General News - HM - Columbus City Council President Shannon Hardin, Congresswomen Joyce Beatty and Franklin County Commissioner Kevin Boyce try to intervene as Columbus Police use pepper spraying on protesters during a protest on South High Street near the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 1st place - Hilliard Davidson's Jake Blevins (left) and Alex Van Voorhis had their senior lacrosse seasons cut prematurely due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Shane Flanigan / ThisWeek Community News)
Portrait - 2nd place - Big Walnut's Hailey Krinn will be continuing her softball career at Ashland University next season. (Shane Flanigan / ThisWeek Community News)
Portrait - 3rd place - Rev. Don Bartow, founder of the Total Living Center, is shown outside the church in Canton. He is retiring after being in the ministry for 72 years. (Scott Heckel / The Canton Repository)
Sports Feature - 1st place - Watterson High School sophomore baseball player Matthew Monesi (right) takes batting practice from his hitting coach Chris Carden at the batting cage at Darree Fields in Dublin. Monesi is getting ready for summer baseball at end of the month after his high school season got canceled because of the pandemic. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Spot News - 1st place - Two women console each other as crews search the water for a drowning victim at the beach at Buck Creek State Park. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Spot News - 2nd place - Karen DeValt (left) and her son Anttwon Cheeves look at the damage from a tree that fell on wires in Karen's front yard on Mettler Street in Toledo. Anttwon said his mother had called someone last week over concerns of the tree in her front yard. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Spot News - 3rd place - Emergency crews from Clark County and Wright Patterson Air Force Base search for a drowning victim at the beach at Buck Creek State Park. The 18-year-old male was swimming with friends when he went under the water and didn’t come up. (Bill Lackey/Staff / Springfield News-Sun)
Spot News - HM - The Springfield Fire Division once again battled a large fire at the old Cooper Energy facility on Sheridan Avenue. The fire department has responded to the old factory complex several times in the past year for deliberately set fires. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Sports - 1st place - Andy Butler chips onto the ninth hole at Spring Valley Golf Course in Pike Township. (Scott Heckel / The Canton Repository)
Story - 1st place - Malaysia Hammond, 17, prays as she puts flowers on George Floyd's memorial on East 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, Minn. Protests erupted in Minneapolis on May 26 over the death of George Floyd who was killed by a Minneapolis Police officer. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Story - 2nd place - Two people scatter as police deploy tear gas near the Lucas County Courthouse grounds during a protest in Toledo. People gathered in and around downtown Saturday night to protest the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Story - 3rd place - A protesters looks up towards the sky while chanting "No Justice, No Peace" along South High Street during a George Floyd protest near the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
