As Portage County heads into its local election cycle, Kent and Streetsboro voters will decide in November who will fill open city council seats.
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About 30 people — and counting — have been spared the walk along Infirmary Road since Emerald Transportation started twice daily runs about a month ago.
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Ravenna Elks fundraiser supports local woman’s effort to document veteran’s gravesites across county
The Ravenna Elks Lodge #1076 held its second annual chili cook-off fundraising event on Feb. 1, with all proceeds going to Chris Untrauer’s veteran grave-marking project at Portage County cemeteries.
If you’ve been noticing a foul odor in the air recently, you’re not alone. Unpleasant as it may be there is a natural cause for your nose to be offended. In Ohio, February is breeding season for skunks.
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In an effort to better connect the Black community and local law enforcement, the Portage County NAACP has brought together safety forces from across the county for quarterly meetings the past three years.
Atwater Township trustees passed a motion to continue moving forward with the overnight staffing at the Atwater Fire Department with no more than two dual-certified members. They will receive a $50 stipend and normal response/transport pay as warranted.
Generally speaking, February tends to be a dismal month weatherwise, so isn’t it wonderful that someone thought to put Valentines Day smack in the middle of February!
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The county has completed a water main on state Route 44 between Mantua and Shalersville, but what’s underground is only part of the story.
Even though Kent is the county’s most populous city — the U.S. Census estimates 27,601 people, about 25% of whom live in poverty — Kent does not have an overnight warming center.
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In November 2024, Mark Frisone, executive director of Axess Family Services, felt his hands trembling as he read the email from the Bezos Day 1 Families Fund. Axess Family Services was about to receive $5 million.
The 2024 elections are in the rearview mirror, but Portage County’s 2025 election season has already revved up. Elected officials whose terms expire Dec. 31 face filing deadlines, some as early as Feb. 5.
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Late October 2024. A 13-year-old girl sits in the office at Brown Middle School. It’s not the first time she’s mouthed off one too many times, but this time the adults seem different. This time the consequences seem real.
The Chinn Allotment sewer project is now in the stages in which there will be a pre-construction meeting Tuesday, Jan. 28. That meeting will involve all of the stakeholders that the project impacts.
Hopefully you have stayed warm and safe this January. It has really been a trip back to the “old winters” we used to have.
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