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Black smoke billowing into the skies over Kent around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 2 was due to a fire at the University Inn on South Water Street.

The Portage County Board of Elections released the unofficial final results of the May 2 election, which saw a voter turnout of about 14% and a total of 5,029 ballots cast.

The owner of the former Twin Lakes Country Clubhouse in Franklin Township plans to demolish the building, saying the structure has “outlived its usefulness.”

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Spring and summer bring out the orange barrels everywhere. In Aurora, you’ll see them around city streets recently paved and coated with an asphalt rejuvenating agent. 

Rootstown received initial approval for putting in walking paths around Rootstown Township Park by way of a grant from the federal government in the amount of $102,000. “The realistic timeline to get it done would probably be late fall of this year or spring of next year,” township Vice Chair Dave McIntyre said.

So I was in the upstairs bathroom, which is kind of under construction at the moment. There is a slight leak in the roof that the roofer has heretofore been unable to fix because of the weather. Nobody told Mother Nature it’s spring and we need to be sunny and 75 right now.

With the retirement of their current city council member, voters in Kent Ward 1 have an important decision to make on Tuesday, May 2. The Portage County Young Democrats urge Ward 1 voters to support Melissa Celko for Kent City Council.

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Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson is famous for, among other things, his quote that “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”

Kathy Baker revealed in the April 24 issue of The Portager (“Meditations on Peace, Flow and Patience”) that “to find inner peace one needs to become like a river.” That thought led her to explore the teachings of the Mighty Mississippi. It inspired me to ponder my decades-long relationship with a different kind of waterway: whitewater rivers of the Appalachians. Paddling such rivers is exciting and carries an element of danger, but few pursuits are so fulfilling.

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Just shy of midnight on Feb. 21, Ravenna police received a call reporting a suspicious person outside the Sherwin Williams store on West Main Street. 

Last month, an investigator working for the Village of Mantua found that the police chief and one of his officers had violated a department policy that forbids supervisors from dating their direct reports.

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The Portage County Land Bank increased its reach in 2022, the organization said in its latest annual report.

The Village of Hiram proposed a resolution that would make the use of cell phones (actually holding a phone to one’s ear) and computers while driving a minor misdemeanor for the first offense.

A long time ago, someone told me that to find inner peace one needs to become like a river: just keep on flowing and observing, but not becoming overwhelmed by the people, events and emotions that tend to swirl around me.

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Portage County is seeking comments for one proposed communications tower from any
interested parties on the impact of the proposed tower…