A handful of volunteers gathered in a remote shed near the Pine Flat Dam recently to learn how to become trout “mamas,” so to ...

MANTUA - A new state-of-the-art Division of Wildlife Resources fish hatchery in Mantua opened to the media on Wednesday, Feb.

Or so it seems. At the top of the tank a mesh basket protects about 150 rainbow trout eggs, not yet recognizable as young trout. The eggs will be nurtured and guided by Powell Middle School’s ...