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☘️ Dublin Area Events
☘️ Dublin Has a 13,000-Year History
☘️ Maybe the Memorial Tournament Already Started?
☘️ Ohio’s Data Center Freeze Hits Dublin Differently
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Dublin Area Events
Friday, May 29
Last day for students (grades K-11) — A.M. only at Dublin City Schools
FREE Weekly Walking Group — This Friday at 9 AM at 6017 Post Rd, Dublin, OH, United States, Ohio 43017
Saturday, May 30
12th South Asian Theater Festival (SATF) 2026 — Sat and Sunday at Abbey Theater of Dublin
Breakthrough for Brain Tumors 5K — 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM at Coffman Park. The BT5K events play a significant role in raising funds and awareness for the American Brain Tumor Association mission
The Dublin Market at Bridge Park — 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM at Bridge Park
MINIs at Museums #3-Merry Go Round Museum — 9 AM at MINI of Dublin, 5825 Venture Drive
Touch-a-Truck with Washington Township Fire Department — 9 AM at Bridge Park
Sunday, May 31
D&D Adventurers' League — 1 PM at Beyond the Board
Fado Pub & Kitchen Sunday Session — 4 PM at Fado Pub and Kitchen
Sleep Sanctuary Workshop with Laurie Markowitz — 6 PM at 6017 Post Rd
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Dublin Has a 13,000-Year old Secret
Right at the corner of Emerald Parkway and Riverside Drive sits a park most Dublin residents have never visited — or even noticed. Ferris-Wright Park looks like a quiet green space from the road. It's actually sitting on top of 2,000 years of history.
The earthworks there — three precise geometric shapes built into the land — were constructed by the Hopewell culture somewhere between 100 BCE and 400 AD. They're the northernmost of their kind in the entire Scioto Valley, and archaeologists have pulled artifacts from the site dating back 13,000 years. The farmhouse on the property, built in 1820, is believed to be the first framed house in the Dublin area.
Dublin Heritage Interpreters run free guided tours throughout the year, and the next one is this Saturday, May 30 from 10 a.m. to noon. Another is Sunday, May 31 from 1 to 3 p.m. Tours continue on a regular schedule through November.
It's one of those places where the most common reaction from first-time visitors is some version of: "I had no idea this was here." If you've got kids, a curious neighbor, or just an hour on Saturday morning — worth the trip.
Full schedule and details at dublinohiousa.gov.
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Maybe the Memorial Tournament Already Started?
The Fore Miler ran last night — four miles through Dublin streets, finishing on 18 at Muirfield, sold out as always. It's been the unofficial kickoff to Memorial week every year since 2015, and at this point it's as much a part of the tournament as the tournament itself.
The race raises money for Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Eat, Learn, Play Foundation — Jack Nicklaus's own charitable foundation — which is a fitting connection given whose course they're finishing on. Every runner got a complimentary practice round ticket for next week.
The tournament itself starts Monday. Twelve years in, the Fore Miler has earned its place as the signal that it's finally here.
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Ohio’s Data Center Freeze Hits Dublin Differently
Governor DeWine announced Wednesday that Ohio is freezing new state tax credits for data centers, after the state's fiscal projections came in $1.4 billion over estimate. No new projects get the 100% sales tax waiver until a state review is complete. It's a significant policy reversal — and it lands directly on a debate Dublin has already been having in our own backyard.
Last year, the city proposed rezoning 370 acres of farmland in the West Innovation District — land adjacent to Ballantrae, sitting between Amazon's existing Houchard Road facility and their campus just over the Hilliard line — for industrial use. Residents pushed back hard over traffic on Cosgray Road, noise, water consumption, and property values. Council tabled it in August and has been working through new zoning language with the Ballantrae community ever since. Still unresolved. Any new project there would have been counting on the credits DeWine just froze.
The broader question those residents were already asking is worth understanding. Dublin got its Houchard Road data center by giving Amazon 68 acres of land for free — valued at $6.8 million — plus performance incentives, on top of $81 million in state tax credits. The three original central Ohio sites combined were projected to create 120 permanent jobs. Most capital investment flows out of the community into servers and equipment made elsewhere.
Whether you think that trade-off was worth it on Houchard Road probably shapes how you feel about what comes next in the West Innovation District. The debate isn't settled — and now the rules at the state level are changing too.
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