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The Village of Mantua’s clerk resigned from her position on Thursday, saying she could no longer tolerate Mayor Linda Clark’s micromanagement and abrasive leadership. By leaving, Jenny August joins a chorus of former village employees who have made similar allegations.

University Hospitals is restricting the number of visitors patients can receive but has yet to issue a Covid vaccine requirement for hospital staff, saying they are “awaiting specific federal requirements.” 

The Kent Board of Zoning Appeals on Monday approved a 10-foot property setback variance for Galenas LLC, opening the door to what could be the city’s second dispensary, after the Planning Commission approved the first in May. Both are awaiting clearance from a state regulator.

at the Record-Courier involved a speaking engagement by Lou Holtz at Kent State University’s Student Center ballroom in April 1994. The famous KSU alum was the head football coach at Notre Dame at the time, so it was a rare opportunity for a cub reporter to rub elbows with college football royalty. Since part of my assignment was to interview Holtz after his speech, I came armed with several pages of interview questions for the living legend.

Kent’s Civil War Society is back in action after a Covid hiatus of over a year. The group, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, is looking forward to its second in-person meeting Oct. 12 at the Roy Smith Shelter House in Fred Fuller Park.

On Wednesday, 32 Windham High School students filed into the gym during 5th period for the first meeting of the Windham High School NAACP High School Chapter. 

“The Final Revival of Opal and Nev” by Dawnie Walton is a different kind of book. It’s a fictional rock-and-roll biography that often reads like the script of a biopic, with plenty of details to give it life. Most of it is in the form of interviews.

Main Street Kent kicks off its annual Oktoberfest celebration at noon on Saturday, Sept. 25 with polka and traditional dancing by the German Family Society Youth Group. Then at 3:30 p.m., local bands will take the stage until the event ends at 10 p.m. 

Last Friday, a Portage County Common Pleas Court jury awarded Molai damages of $750,000, siding with Molai that the Standing Rock Cemetery Board of Trustees had breached Molai’s contractual rights related to a family plot he had purchased in the cemetery.

Kent State Board of Trustees voted to merge WKSU under Ideastream management, parting ways with a radio station that has flown the university’s banner throughout Northeast Ohio for more than 80 years.

For a Group of 5 college football team to pull an upset of an upper-tier Power 5 squad, three primary factors must be in place.

The Portage DD Special Olympics Softball team traveled to Sandusky for the 2021 Softball State Tournament last weekend.

Crestwood Local School District administrators canceled in-person classes Tuesday for students in grades 7-12, after a quarter of the student body is in quarantine because they were exposed to confirmed coronavirus cases.

A ballot initiative to decriminalize up to 200 grams (7.05 oz) of marjuana in the city of Kent failed by four signatures, the Portage County Board of Elections determined on Sept. 8.

Rootstown residents can soon go to medical appointments without ever leaving the township as Summa Health opens its new Rootstown Medical Center on the campus of Northeast Ohio Medical University.

Cub Scout packs in Portage County are holding recruitment nights throughout September to introduce families to scout activities and to hold sign-ups. The Cub Scouts program is open to boys and girls from kindergarten to fifth grade. Here’s all the information you need: Aurora Cub Scout Pack 3265 Contact Pack 3265: Jennifer Bowen, 216-338-3203 or jenn.g.bowen@gmail.com Cub Scout Pack 3269 Contact Pack 3269: Josh Taylor, 216-630-0295 or pack.3269@gtcbsa.org Brimfield Cub Scout Pack 3259         Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 […]

Today The Portager community has an opportunity to make a material difference in fighting this problem. You’re invited to donate food and money to a brand new Pack the Bus campaign led by the Rural Relief Mobile Food Pantry, the Rotary Club of Kent and The Portager. Your contributions will directly assist kids in Portage County who deal with hunger on a regular basis.

If you live in Atwater or Mantua townships, you’ll be paying a bit more for recycling: $5.50 per household per month, up from the $3.75 monthly fee residents have been paying for biweekly service.

Recycling took center stage in Randolph Township’s packed Town Hall on Thursday evening as trustees debated what to do about the nine central dropoff bins that are constantly being filled with garbage.

The Kent State Board of Trustees is expected to vote at its Wednesday meeting to merge WKSU, the university’s NPR-affiliated radio station, and Cleveland-based Ideastream, according to a person with knowledge of the plan.