The city of Worcester tentatively closed down Indian Lake Thursday afternoon after city officials said they found densities of cyanobacteria in the water that exceeded the state’s threshold, a ...

Worcester will use a new strategy that it hopes will keep the cyanobacteria in check — at an estimated total cost of $180,0000 — thereby ending or limiting future lake and beach closures.

Although Indian Lake is very shallow, with an average depth of 6 feet, it has largely been spared the algae that has stained other Ohio lakes because of the Indian Lake Watershed Project ...

UPDATE @ 11:13 p.m. Harvesting and the use of herbicides will be the short-term plan to get control of invasive weeds that threaten to put an economic chokehold on the town that relies on Indian Lake.