File. Perrysburg High School Marching Band Drum Major Owen Laib, a senior, looks on prior to the start of a playoff football game at Perrysburg, Friday, Oct. 29. This photo won first place in the Best Feature Photo category.
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Three Sentinel-Tribune staff members have received awards from the Associated Press.
Winners were announced Saturday in the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors’ 2021 newspaper contest.
Multi-media journalist J.D. Pooley won Best Photographer, second place; Best News Photo (We Have Rights), second place; Best Feature Photo (Strike up the Band), first place; and Best Sports Photo (High-Five from the Field), third place.
“Shows the dichotomy of our times. Masked politicians inside meeting room trying to conduct business while the parents congregate outside heightens the tension of situation,” the judge said about “We Have Rights.”
He also won two awards for Best Video: A Lesson in Finishing Last and Pretty, first place, and Cute, Shaggy: BG Pet Contest in 60th Year, third place.
Education Editor Marie Thomas-Baird won first place for best explanatory reporting on Pipe Dreams: School Money from Pipelines Never Materialized.
“This writer did a great job with formatting to present the complex subject in a very easy way to comprehend. The breakout box was a nice touch to clarify and was organized nicely,” was the judge’s comment.
Columnist Raul Ascunce was awarded second place for best columnist. He has been writing for the Sentinel-Tribune for 30 years and his “Relatively Speaking” column runs every other Wednesday.
“It’s funny. Plain and simple, his writing brightened my day,” the judge said.
The Sentinel-Tribune is in Division I.
Forty-eight daily newspapers submitted 1,302 entries in the contest, which featured news and sports stories, features, editorials, columns, graphics and photos from 2021.
