Second place, News Picture Story - Chris Day / Ohio University, "New Marshfield, Ohio"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. 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 April 3, 2021.
Second place, News Picture Story - Chris Day / Ohio University, "New Marshfield, Ohio"Paul Jones plays catch with his dogs Max and Winnie in his front yard on 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, News Picture Story - Chris Day / Ohio University, "New Marshfield, Ohio"Pastor 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 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, News Picture Story - Chris Day / Ohio University, "New Marshfield, Ohio"Bruce 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 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, News Picture Story - Chris Day / Ohio University, "New Marshfield, Ohio"Boyd Montle closes the barn door before going into his house outside New Marshfield on 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, News Picture Story - Chris Day / Ohio University, "New Marshfield, Ohio"Ryan Peters jokes with his friends as they ride in their off-road vehicles through the trails at an Athens County Crawlers event on 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, News Picture Story - Chris Day / Ohio University, "New Marshfield, Ohio"Andrew Wheeler, 15, throws a pitch while Addam Eblin, 15, sits ready to catch it as DJ Gonzalez begins to swing at it on 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, News Picture Story - Chris Day / Ohio University, "New Marshfield, Ohio"An 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 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, News Picture Story - Chris Day / Ohio University, "New Marshfield, Ohio"Jeremiah "Miah" McDowell, 9, and Trace Eblin, 11, peer through a fence in the backyard of Miah's grandfather's home in New Marshfield on April 4, 2021.
Second place, News Picture Story - Chris Day / Ohio University, "New Marshfield, Ohio"John Moore leans against his porch as he stares into a fire outside of his home in New Marshfield on 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, News Picture Story - Chris Day / Ohio University, "New Marshfield, Ohio"Denzil Roberts II stands near his tractor after competing in a tractor derby in Nelsonville on 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.
