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County commissioners will resume their own livestreaming for over $43,000

- Wendy DiAlesandro.

Portage County commissioners will soon be livestreaming their meetings, thanks to a $43,466 investment in equipment and software. BIS Digital will install a $38,054 integrated audio/video streaming system in the commissioners’ boardroom, along with $5,411 in related software. The commissioners expect to incur unspecified additional costs to support a second camera to record proceedings. Commissioners did not cite a timeline for when they go live. The Portager has offered a livestream on its Facebook page, free to taxpayers, since the […]

Bringing food where it’s needed, Rural Relief food pantry serves Portage County’s food deserts

- Asha Blake.

The Davises built this pantry on wheels themselves in the wake of the pandemic and food insecurity crisis that followed. Known as the Rural Relief Mobile Food Pantry, their mission is to meet the needs specifically of rural Portage County, where pockets of the population experience the additional difficulty of living in a food desert.

After years of inaction, Mantua Center School activists say it’s time to put the building to use

- Lyndsey Brennan.

Community groups in Mantua Township have invested thousands of hours of their time into turning the Mantua Center School into a vibrant community center: volunteering physical labor, writing grants and proposals, hosting fundraisers and chairing committees. Yet two decades after the township acquired the building and at least nine years after the building was cleared for occupancy, it sits mostly empty. Many of those community members say it’s because the township trustees, two of whom have been in office for about a decade, have not followed through on their promises to make use of it.

Memories like a heat wave

- Tom Hardesty.

Two practices a day for a couple weeks, although it felt like a year. One morning practice for several hours, one afternoon practice for several hours, with a couple-hour break in between that seemed more like five minutes where you went home, got out of the sun, did your best to rehydrate and actively dreaded heading back down to the field again.

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