Ravenna considers slowing speeds, buying parking lot and more - Wendy DiAlesandro. Ravenna City Council members met May 11 to consider a number of items, including lowering speed limits on Main Street.
Ravenna considers slowing speeds, buying parking lot and more County roundup: Memorial Day details plus news from Edinburg, Paris and Rootstown
- Roger Gordon. The Rootstown Lions Club’s annual Rootstown Memorial Day Parade and Flag Raising will take place Monday, May 25. The parade lineup will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the NEOMED parking lot.
Letter to the editor: Keep corporate greed out of Portage County
- Letter to the editor. Shalersville, Ravenna, and now Streetsboro have all passed moratoriums on data centers, but a moratorium is only a delay. One hyperstructure built in a neighboring county on the scale of Utah’s recently approved 62 square mile data center (read that number again) will overshadow any local ban or moratorium.
Letter to the editor: Send 'em our way
- Letter to the editor. The people of Kent send a big THANK YOU to the citizens of Ravenna, Tallmadge and Streetsboro for not passing your school levies. With our freshly approved levy, we will be attracting your young families and their children.
Portage County obituaries for May 15-17, 2026
- Staff Report. Remembering those we've lost in Portage County
Streetsboro considering changes to door-to-door sales laws
- Wendy DiAlesandro. Streetsboro City Council’s safety committee on May 11 considered tweaks to local law affecting door-to-door salespeople and solicitors.
Round Two: A brief forray into sports sabotage
- Tom Hardesty. Saboteurs have been part of sports for as long as sports have been part of the human condition.
Around Windham: Wrapping up the school year and community summer updates
- Nicole Sweet. Happy May Bomber Country! May is always an exciting time. With things like the school year end, graduations, beginning of wedding season, warmer days for ball games, Memorial Day weekend, the kickoff to summer and more. Warmer weather is finally in the air and here are some exciting events and important information coming up in our little town.
Portage County obituaries for May 13-14, 2026
- Staff Report. Remembering those we've lost in Portage County
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Community, school leaders ponder next steps after tax failures at the ballot
- Wendy DiAlesandro. Disappointed by May’s primary election results, school and city officials across Portage County know they have work to do before November.
Around Randolph: Plan your Memorial Day in the township and buy local goods
- Sandy Engle. “Show me your cemeteries, and I will show what kind of people you have.” The oldest organization in Randolph, the Ladies Cemetery Association, is taking that quote to heart and is in the midst of restoring Sand Hill Cemetery, which is the oldest part of Hillside Cemetery.
Ohio Outdoors: May is for mayapples
- Julie Watson. Mayapples are popping up all over Portage County. These small forest floor plants native across the eastern United States and Canada, and are one of my favorites.
Portage County obituaries for May 11-12, 2026
- Staff Report. Remembering those we've lost in Portage County
Brimfield has never paid Kent for its $44,000-a-year dispatch contract
- Wendy DiAlesandro. How is it that the City of Kent has been providing free dispatching service for Brimfield Township fire and EMS for years?