Glimmers of hope in a community of crumbling buildings – Your Voice Ohio

By M.L. Schultze

Trumbull County used to be one big story: Steel. Its rise in the first half of the 20th Century, and its collapse in the second.

Today, Trumbull is many stories. Some focus on continued economic decline, others on rebirth. Those stories often share the same moral repeated in communities across rural Ohio: There is no silver bullet.

Behind the stories, there is grit and resilience and efforts especially among younger people, to move on from the past.