VALLEY CITY, Ohio -- With an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 people attending and 740 frogs taking a leap or three across the ring, the 62nd annual Valley City Frog Jump Festival was another success, ...
In 2019, Landon Holzhausen, 7, caught his winning frog on the banks of the Looking Glass River. It was right before the DeWitt Ox Roast's frog jumping contest. His mother, Nicole Holzhausen, said the ...
WOODLAND — Competing in the 52nd annual Frog Jump at Woodland Planters Days is serious business. It takes some preparation: What’s the wind speed? How’s the terrain? But mostly, it comes down to the ...
Chicken Wing just wouldn’t hop. No matter what Keeli Ford did, she couldn’t get the little guy to move. She rapidly pounded her fists on the grass behind him, she blew on his back, she begged Chicken ...
The competitors may have been small and possibly slimy, but the frogs entered in the annual Post-Tribune Frog Jump at the Lake County Fair showed judges what it means to show some serious spring.
VALLEY CITY, Ohio -- Celebrating its 60th year -- following a 2020 that nearly broke its string -- the Valley City Frog Jump Festival saw a record number of both frogs and frog jumpers Sunday (July 25 ...
Dozens of slimy frogs in a storage container made to be a makeshift bog jumped around awaiting little hands. They were placed on a felt lily pad on an astroturf soccer field where they competed for ...
In the town of Springfield lies the competition of the Governor’s Frog Jump. Ever since the 1960s, people have been traveling to compete with aspirations of winning. Those aspirations have been ...
You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. On Thursday, Aug. 21, ten hardy frogs leapt at the chance to take part in ...
Barring a surprise snake attack, there will be no frog shortage for Saturday’s annual Mayor’s Frog Jump – the best part of the Come-See-Me festival because no adults are allowed to ruin it.