- Angie Reedy.
The Auxiliary of University Hospitals Portage Medical Center invites you to remember others this holiday season by supporting its 35th annual community tradition.
- Tom Hardesty.
It’s been 27 years, and my wife Kim and I still can’t explain what happened to us one hot summer day in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- Staff Report.
Remembering those we’ve lost in Portage County
- Ben Wolford.
Doug Kisamore, 30, of Diamond, set the record for the largest pumpkin ever grown in Ohio during an Oct. 8 weigh-off in Canfield.
- Staff Report.
Kent Historical Society is accepting last-minute RSVP’s for Jim Myers’ personal tour of “Prescriptions for Memories,” the current exhibit at the museum.
- Staff Report.
The Tree City Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony is hosted by the City of Kent and the Kent Area Chamber of Commerce. It will be returning this year at 6 p.m. Nov. 10 after a two-year hiatus.
- Submitted.
The annual Race for Education fundraiser helps the Walls School Association sponsor field trips, equipment for recreation and arts, software subscriptions and more. This year’s fundraiser has already surpassed last year’s efforts.
- Staff Report.
Remembering those we’ve lost in Portage County
- Jeremy Brown.
Hundreds of Amish men from Geauga County and surrounding areas carried a 35,000-pound barn by hand to relocate it about 200 feet on the property of a Welshfield business owner Oct. 11.
Matouš is a 2-year-old yellow lab, happy looking as they all are, and clearly enamored with his new owner, Dominic Poe.
- Jala Forest.
Safer Futures held its 12th annual Hope in a Handbag fundraising event on Friday at the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center, where guests bid on designer purses to support Portage County’s only domestic violence shelter.
- Staff Report.
Flourish Plant Mkt. will open its first brick-and-mortar storefront at 113 S. Water St. on Saturday, October 28.
- Staff Report.
Remembering those we’ve lost in Portage County
If you’ve driven past the old RB&W site on Mogadore Road in Kent, you may have noticed heavy machinery and curious installations.
Per city charter, Ravenna’s Charter Review Commission meets every five years. This was the year, and the commission submitted five changes city voters would have to approve.
- Staff Report.
Remembering those we’ve lost in Portage County
Hiram College has sold its Cooley Telescope, which has been scanning the heavens since 1901, to a private buyer in Canada for an undisclosed amount.
- Mike Ray.
Even though pandemic mandates are long gone, Kent State’s Child Development Center is still struggling to recover its previous enrollment numbers, but parents and administrators say the center has weathered the storm.
- Tom Hardesty.
Last week’s Round 2 column on “player safety” in sports elicited an interesting response from a reader that had me doing a deeper dive on the subject.
Do you know the names Judge Judy (Judy Sheindlin) who served as a Manhattan family court judge, or Judge Joe Brown, who originally was from Shelby County, Tennessee, Criminal Court? Or do you know the judges involved in some high-profile federal cases around the country? In real life, we citizens have two separate legal systems, the state and the federal. We can vote in the state elections.