King Kennedy Community Center supporters are hoping Portage County commissioners will approve their $216,908 request to put in a parking lot, new bathrooms and storage space at the nonprofit’s new gymnasium and multipurpose building on Garfield Road in Ravenna.
- Max Swartout.
Summary and transcript of the Shalersville trustees meeting on May 17.
- Jeff Gambone.
The week of May 22 brings us 11 different choices for our open mic entertainment. It doesn’t matter where you live in the Summit/Portage County area there is an open mic that you can attend. Come out and play or listen to this unique part of the area music scene.
- Staff Report.
Remembering those we’ve lost in Portage County
Before she was killed, Cora Baughman entered her neighbor’s garage with a gun and demanded to speak with him, the neighbor told dispatchers in two calls to 911 on Saturday morning.
Coty Giannelli and Hayley Bennett knew they wanted a special piece of Kent to house their new business, Board and Bevy, a place to play games while having a drink and bite to eat.
- Jeremy Brown.
Photographer Jeremy Brown took this photo of the ‘blood moon’ caused by Sunday’s lunar eclipse. This particular photo is a composite image.
- Jeremy Brown.
Stained glass artist and Kent resident Joan Phillips, 66, will be attending the 14th annual Kent Art and Wine Festival in downtown Kent on June 4, from noon to 9 p.m. She has attended the festival since its inception in 2007.
Kent’s Haymaker Farmers’ Market is now giving anyone with a WIC card two $5 vouchers to spend on fresh fruits and vegetables thanks to a new program funded by the Socially Responsible Sweatshop.
The woman killed in Windham Township during a confrontation involving neighbors and law enforcement officers was identified as 66-year-old Cora Baughman, according to an Akron Beacon Journal report.
- Staff Report.
Remembering those we’ve lost in Portage County
- Ben Wolford.
The Portager is giving student groups, nonprofits and community organizations the opportunity to raise money while supporting local news coverage in their communities.
Members of the Rootstown High School girls soccer team were in tears Monday night asking the Rootstown Board of Education to extend the contract of their head coach, Jason Opritza.
- Staff Report.
The Ravenna Special Services Department hosted its third annual Under The Sea dance for students with disabilities on Friday. Over 200 students and adults from 11 different school districts attended the dance.
Streetsboro firefighters responded Saturday morning to a call regarding heavy smoke on Crownwood Court in the Hickory Ridge neighborhood, just north of state Route 303 in the city’s southwest quadrant.
State agents are investigating an incident that left a woman dead after a Portage County Sheriff’s deputy and Garrettsville police officer responded to a dispute between neighbors in Windham Township.
- Jeremy Brown.
Over 50 people gathered at Windham High School on Saturday night for a candlelight vigil in honor of Kammie Kiser, a 19-year-old woman killed by gunfire in Warren early Friday.
- Staff Report.
Remembering those we’ve lost in Portage County
A Ravenna family has embarked on a legal battle against Bio-Med Science Academy in Rootstown, alleging the charter school is violating their son’s civil rights.
- Jeremy Brown.
When Akron resident Don Jeffrey was growing up in Stow, he dreamed of being a cartoonist. He wanted to be “the next Charles Schulz,” creator of the Peanuts comic strip, and have his comics published in a newspaper. But with television on the rise and newspapers in decline, he decided it wasn’t a realistic goal, so he went to work in retail.