National stories that Powell would rather not be known forArtist creates house of cheeseIn 2001, New York City-based artist Cosimo Cavallaro covered a vacant house in Powell — inside and out — with cheese. Cavallaro used a sprayer to cover the one-bedroom abode with 10,000 pounds of pepper-jack cheese. A good-natured community went along with the project and hosted a “Cheesefest,” complete with a parade and a cheese king and queen.

It was Haire versus rabbits when a Powell resident set out to do battle against bunnies in 2007.

Objecting to a proposal to make it legal to raise rabbits in town, David Haire told the Powell City Council his neighbor's rabbits were making him sick.

The council enacted an ordinance limiting in-town rabbits to three breeding pairs per household, making national news in the process.

Naked hoops nets citation for youngsters

Powell made national news in 2004 when two teenage boys were arrested during a late-night basketball game.

What's wrong with a friendly game of hoops, one might ask.

According to an online forum, “Police in Powell busted the boys when they found them playing ‘shirts and skins' — without their shirts and with nothing but skin.”

The boys, who were playing unclothed and in the street, were cited for indecent exposure.

Dog poo puts Powell on media forefront

Powell's dogs, or at least the messes they leave behind, put Powell on the media map in March 2007.

A Tribune reporter, as part of a story on dogs defecating in the city's parks, counted piles of poop at Washington Park.

The Associated Press picked up the story, which brought letters and suggestions to the Tribune and the City Parks Department from coast to coast and even further afield.