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Chrissy Motz wanted her team, “Portage Grin and Bear It,” to raise $1,000 for the Special Olympics of Ohio at last month’s annual Polar Plunge event in Cleveland.

Mantua Police Chief Joseph Urso called the village council investigation into his alleged relationship with an officer wasteful and politically motivated in his first comments to the public since the inquiry began in September.

Aurora City Council on Monday approved its much-debated parking ban, limiting parking on certain residential lots.

Charlestown will host its Annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday April 1 at 1 p.m. at the Charlestown Township Park on Rock Spring Road. The Easter Bunny will make an appearance to officially begin the hunt. The children will have the opportunity to have their picture taken and receive a special gift from the Easter Bunny.

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At least three more students at Streetsboro have been targeted with sextortion in recent months, following the harassment and subsequent Nov. 19 death by suicide of 17-year-old James Woods, city and school officials said last week.

A woman walking in Ravenna’s Havre’s Woods Park on Thursday morning came upon a body and a gun by the side of the trail and called police.

The Brimfield Cemetery will be full in approximately seven years at its current rate of use. The trustees have offered the Pitts family $25,000 per acre (current appraised value) for five unused acres connected to the cemetery.

Benner suggested zoning to limit solar farms. Kotkowski requested that the Portage County commissioners place a countywide moratorium on solar and wind development. 

Prior to this interview, the resident had already provided Norfolk & Southern with an estimate to fix his septic system in the amount of $30,000. Since then, the railroad has indicated to the resident that it is “working on it.”

Aurora authorized the purchase of a new 2023 ambulance. The cost is $315,000, which includes equipment that will be installed. A fire paramedic levy will pay for the ambulance.

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A group of Portage County social justice groups are inviting residents to attend a series of public forums meant to highlight and solve local health disparities.

Thanks to Tom Hardesty for sharing his fond memories of the Kent Community Store. I remember shopping there when I moved to Kent in 1985 and also have fond memories. But my fonder memories are of Kent Community Store’s founder, the late George Hoffman, who was a close family friend. I met him in the mid 1990s through our sons, who have been best friends since preschool.

Kelly’s Grief Center in Kent is offering support groups for people who have lost a loved one to accidental overdose, perinatal mortality, suicide and homicide.

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When I saw my old Portage County friend Chas Madonio will give a talk at the Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library about the music scene in Kent in the 1960s and ’70s, I immediately reserved seats at the event for my wife and myself.

Solon resident David Eder was driving in Oakwood, Ohio, near Dayton, with a couple of friends when they came upon a deer that had been hit by another vehicle. It was still alive, but its injuries proved fatal, and the animal died as the young men watched.

In 2022, the Portage County Board of Developmental Disabilities rebranded DD Awareness Month to DD Pride Month. Awareness wasn’t enough. The board members and major stakeholders in the community wanted March to be about celebrating everybody’s ability and uniqueness.

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