Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityStory Summary: New Marshfield, Ohio, is a small town of around 300 residents nestled among the foothills of the Appalachians. In decades past, New Marshfield was a bustling town as trains brought coal from the mines in the surrounding area to Cincinnati and beyond. However, first the trains stopped, then the coal mines shut down and finally the tracks were pulled up. Now, like the tracks, a hotel, gas stations, stores and restaurants are all gone. In a town where the primary asset is quiet, a variety of small communities find ways to spend their time when not commuting to Columbus or other nearby cities for work.Caption: A church at the center of New Marshfield can be seen through a gap in the trees where train tracks used to pass through town on Saturday, April 3, 2021.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityPaul Jones plays catch with his dogs Max and Winnie in his front yard on Friday, January 29, 2021. Jones often sits outside to play with his dogs in his front yard but said some residents walk the streets of New Marshfield with bats or sticks to fight off aggressive dogs. "This town is full of drug addicts, drug peddlers and pit bulls," he said.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityPastor Adelbert Winegardner Senior prays with Joey Henry, 13, at the front of Faith Baptist Church during a service before Henry walks around to collect money on Sunday, February 21, 2021. Winegardner and his wife turned portions of the closed down school in New Marshfield into a church after their former church was torn down. The school halls now hold memories of the many years of Sunday schools and services. On one wall, a canvas is filled with painted hands of children who now, as adults, bring their own sons and daughters to services.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityBruce Chaney tries to get reception on his phone after he finishes digging a grave to check the weather and see if he will need to cover the hole from rain on Monday, March 15, 2021. Chaney has worked for the Waterloo Township since 2004 and has looked after the New Marshfield cemetery ever since. He said he helped bury his mother and father during his first year on the job.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityBoyd Montle closes the barn door before going into his house outside New Marshfield on Monday, March 1, 2021. The farm has been in Montle's family for over 100 years. He and his wife Jill own a wood bundling business and also raise cattle to be butchered and sold. "Some days all you're doing is keeping your head above water... just the tip of the nose," Jill Montle said about life on the farm. "Other days you realize you have abundant blessings."
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityRyan Peters jokes with his friends as they ride in their off-road vehicles through the trails at an Athens County Crawlers event on Saturday, March 13, 2021. The ACC is an off-road park outside of New Marshfield where Athens County residents and people from throughout southern Ohio can bring their rigs to ride through the mud and scale hills of different difficulty.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityAndrew Wheeler, 15, throws a pitch while Addam Eblin, 15, sits ready to catch it as DJ Gonzalez begins to swing at it on Saturday, April 4, 2021. Kids and teenagers often bike throughout the town and play in the field and park at the center of town as parents and friends watch from the surrounding houses.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityAn Athens County Sheriff's deputy speaks to attendees of a birthday party in New Marshfield after Kody Cummings, left, and three others were pepper sprayed by a neighbor on Saturday, February 6, 2021. Tina Osborne and her daughter Danielle Osborne confronted this neighbor after the neighbor's son threatened Tina's grandson Miah and the other children with pepper spray. While yelling at the neighbor for filming the kids at the party from her car with her phone, the neighbor pepper sprayed Kody, Tina and Danielle before driving to her house down the street.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityJeremiah "Miah" McDowell, 9, and Trace Eblin, 11, peer through a fence in the backyard of Miah's grandfather's home in New Marshfield on Sunday, April 4, 2021.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityJohn Moore leans against his porch as he stares into a fire outside of his home in New Marshfield on Sunday, April 4, 2021. Moore said he and his family often sit by the fire to talk and eat dinner. "Get some pizza go out by the fire and tell lies," he said.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityDenzil Roberts II stands near his tractor after competing in a tractor derby in Nelsonville, Ohio, on Saturday, March 20, 2021. Denzil's son, grandson, and a family friend all competed in one of the derby matches during the event. "Whole of New Marshfield running against each other... it's the battle of New Marshfield," Dom Severt, Roberts's grandson, said about the event.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityStory Summary: After 30 years of teaching, the last thing Danita McLaughlin thought was that she would spend the next few years surrounded by even more children. However, after her two daughters, Miranda and Melanie, began to have families of their own, she immediately stepped into her new role of the always-available grandmother. “I wasn’t planning on babysitting,” Danita McLaughlin said. “That wasn’t ever in my mind after retiring.” Now based on the day of the week, she and her husband are part of a musical chairs game of grandchildren as they go to various homes and are dropped off and picked up by a rotation of parents. Although some days she comes home dead tired, Danita wouldn’t trade all the extra time she gets to have with her grandchildren as they grow up. She knows they won’t always need her to change their clothes, cook them breakfast, or be able to fall asleep on her lap while she reads to them, so she cherishes every moment she has now.Caption:Danita McLaughlin leaves her home in New Marshfield, Ohio, before dawn to head to her daughter, Melanie Shaulis's, house before her daughter leaves for work and her grandchildren wake up on Monday, September 22. Danita normally watches the children from six in the morning until five in the afternoon when either Melanie or her husband Josh Shaulis return home.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityMangus Shaulis and Danita McLaughlin look at Melanie Shaulis as she kisses Silas Shaulis goodbye before heading to work in the morning. Danita said her favorite time of day is when they lay on her in the mornings as they're waking up. "I know they'll be too big for that one day," she said. "It's a grandma thing."
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityDanita McLaughlin changes her grandson Mangus Shaulis, 2, out of his pajamas while Silas Shaulis, 3, colors behind her on the counter on September 22, 2021.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityDanita McLaughlin watches as Silas and Mangus Shaulis look for hickory seeds with their dog Chief outside of her daughter Melanie's home in Albany, Ohio, on Sept. 23, 2021. The boys love to play outside and it's often a challenge for Danita to keep any clothes they wear clean for more than a few minutes. "Noise, wheels and mud are their favorite things," she said.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityChris McLaughlin takes Mangus and Silas Shaulis down to visit his cows on Sept. 21, 2021. On Thursdays and Fridays, Chris and Danita’s two older grandchildren get off the school bus at their home before their dad comes to pick them up.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversitySilas Shaulis pouts after Danita McLaughlin told him he needed to put his shirt back on and that it was too cold for him to go swimming in their inflatable pool on Sept. 22, 2021.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityDanita McLaughlin talks to Silas Shaulis as Mangus Shaulis plays with his bike and their dog Chief looks on. The boys will race around the yard on their bikes and small four wheelers with Danita attempting to keep them from the mud and being there with a kind word and a hug if one should fall down.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityDanita McLaughlin watches as Mangus Shaulis plays in the toy room downstairs while his brother, Silas, watches videos on his tablet on Sept. 24, 2021. "I'm sometimes dead after I leave here," she said
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityDanita McLaughlin helps Mangus Shaulis, called "Gus" by the family, out of his crib on Sept. 23, 2021. Silas Shaulis ran down the hall and joined them once he heard Mangus start to wake up. Danita normally has a few minutes in the morning to watch the morning news and make bracelets out of beads before the boys are awake and it's time for breakfast.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityDanita McLaughlin, Kennedy Smith, 7, and Mangus Shaulis look out the garage door to see if Kennedy's father has arrived to pick up her and her brother Kain on Sept. 23, 2021. When they were little, Danita used to watch Kennedy and Kain during the day while her older daughter Miranda Smith and her son-in-law Josh Smith worked. Now, Kennedy and her brother get off the bus at their Aunt Melanie's house three days a week and join Mangus and Silas in being watched by Danita before one of their parents picks them up.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversitySilas and Mangus Shaulis watch as Danita McLaughlin heads back to her house after a day of looking after them on Sept. 23, 2021. Chris had said, while he knows they'd figure something out, he's not sure what his two daughters would have done if Danita wasn't there every day to watch the children while they worked.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityDanita and Chris McLaughlin watch TV in the evening after Danita got home from a day of watching Mangus and Silas Shaulis. For Danita, even though she never imagined spending the years since she retired as a babysitter, she can't imagine doing anything differently. When her daughter Miranda had said she would look for a sitter for Kennedy when she was little, Danita said it was like "a stab in the heart." "Why are you going to have someone else watch my baby?" she said. "So I've been doing it ever since then."
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityRyan Gartley competes in a pawpaw eating contest as attendees watch and cheer during the 23rd Annual Ohio Pawpaw Festival in Albany, Ohio, on Saturday, September 18, 2021. Gartley, who ultimately won the competition, said this is his second pawpaw contest he's taken part in. His main strategy is to get the seeds off to the sides as much as possible while he's eating the remainder of the fruit.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityBroward County Sheriff’s Deputy Christopher Rossi signals to passengers that Terminal 3 is safe to enter at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after officials received a bomb threat on Saturday morning, July 10, 2021.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityNik Ricci, a senior animal care specialist with SeaWorld, looks down at Astoria after she has been moved down from the truck that brought her from Orlando to a boat ramp near Jacksonville for release. Astoria was released north of the Indian River because she had been rescued nearby and there is a greater access to seagrass in this area. Before she is released, her scars are marked with grease markers, she is measured, and a tracker is cinched around her tail that will stay attached for up to two years. Astoria was part of the mortality event occurring in Florida, in which manatees are starving to death due to a lack of seagrass in the Indian River.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityRon Pohl, the senior reptile keeper at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm, ties a dead rat to the end of a stick before feeding it to alligators in the native swamp during a show. Pohl said that unlike the alligators in the lagoon, which have been trained for shows, these alligators only associate humans with food. "This is the most dangerous type of alligator," he said.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityAn audience member is comforted by Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo during a mini-concert from local Cuban-American artists on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. The event was put on by the City of Miami to show support to the people in Cuba who are protesting for freedom.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityShawn Freas, 7, leads in a race for the last net in North Ocean Park at Pompano Beach as part of the Living Water Surf School on Thursday, June 10, 2021. Thursday is the first day of summer for Broward County students. Freas defeated the other girls and then went on to win against the quickest boys to be crowned the fastest person in the group.
Second place, Chuck Scott Student Photographer of the Year - Chris Day / Ohio UniversityBam Adebayo, a Miami Heat basketball player, has tears stream down his face as he answers questions after visiting the makeshift memorial for those missing on Friday, July 2, 2021. The memorial is across the street from the 12-story oceanfront Champlain Towers South Condo, at 8777 Collins Ave., that partially collapsed around 2 a.m. on Thursday, June 24, 2021 in Surfside, Fl.
