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Residents in Streetsboro came out in support of less restrictive chicken ownership ordinances in the city on Monday, pushing back on proposed legislation that would banish roosters from urban areas and limit where people can keep hens.
Streetsboro City Council held a virtual public hearing about the proposed legislation in which multiple residents argued that chickens are harmless and no more bothersome than dogs. In fact, one said they make for good guard dogs.

Charlestown Township’s Memorial Day Parade is a go this year. The parade will be held at 11 a.m. May 30, starting off from the fire department at Rock Spring and Newton Falls roads and proceeding to Charlestown Township Cemetery, where there will be a short ceremony.

Aurora’s government, police, local organizations and schools are partnering to pull off a community-wide cleanup from 8 a.m. to noon on May 8. Teams, groups of friends, local organizations, school groups, clubs, church groups and individuals are needed as volunteers. Participants should plan on meeting at the Aurora High School parking lot at 7:30 a.m.

Streetsboro council unanimously scrapped proposed legislation that would regulate garage, yard and household sales in the city. The legislation stated that the sales, and others of a similar nature, “take place in such a manner and time so as to detract from the character of residential areas.”

Kent City School District is exchanging an eight-acre property and the building that once housed Franklin School for a 1.75-acre lot adjacent to Stanton Middle School, currently owned by The Davey Tree Expert Company. Davey Tree will supplement the exchange with $456,000 and extended parking at 12 evening events at Roosevelt Stadium.

Responding to residents’ complaints, township trustees met last week with Breakneck’s developers to encourage them to keep their side of a deal inked decades ago. The developer had agreed to install 12 lights in the subdivision near Summit Road and South Diamond Street, but somehow never did.

What’s a township to do when unsupervised kids stray off the playground and onto neighboring properties? Randolph Township Trustee Roger Klodt’s proposal to install electric fencing around the Old School Park would likely work, but was rejected by his colleagues.

On May 4, voters in Portage County will have an opportunity to say yes to its children. Issue 1, a proposed tax levy for Portage County Children’s Services, will provide for care, placement and treatment of abused, neglected and dependent children.

Outdoor seating is coming back to Franklin Avenue, giving Kent’s downtown businesses another season of reprieve from the economic fallout of the pandemic’s social distancing requirements. Kent City Council approved the road closure from Erie Street to Main Street effective May 7 to Oct. 4, tentatively.

A long-time eyesore in Suffield will be cleaned up and given new life as a mulch production site, promising to create 40 jobs in Portage County. Oldcastle Lawn and Garden, an international wholesaler of mulch, soils and decorative rocks, has agreed to purchase the former property of a tire manufacturing plant at 61 state Route 43, at the corner of Manning Road.

I’m a sucker for books with “library,” “book,” “reader,” “bookstore,” etc. in the title. So when I noticed two novels recently on the bestseller list with “library” in the title, I had to check them out.

Bumble bees are among the best pollinators around — even better than honey bees. They can pollinate many different species and genera of flowers, actively pollinating gardens and crops from April through mid-October.

Brimfield police officers Matt Kennedy and James Carrozzi each received a Life Saving Award after rescuing an allegedly suicidal woman who was hanging from an interstate bridge.

Lynda is a football mother who is about to send her son to one of the nation’s blue-blood collegiate programs, the end of a lengthy and trying process for a player who was recruited by schools all over the country. Here is her story, in her own words.

The Portage Soil and Water Conservation District helped Skeels residents and community leaders stock the pond at the Skeels-Mathews Community Center on Wednesday.

NAACP of Portage County president Dr. Geraldine Hayes Nelson and Ravenna activist Rev. Dennis Richey, Sr. released statements last night in response to the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.

A section of Mantua’s historic Main Street commercial district will soon be officially “blighted.” Under new legislation the village council is considering, a section of the downtown would receive the designation and become eligible for Ohio’s Target of Opportunity Grant Programs. Property owners could unlock funding to repair and rehabilitate their buildings.

Facing a deepening financial crisis, Waterloo Local School District is asking Atwater and Randolph residents to pass an earned income tax in Portage County’s May 4 election.

The Crestwood Local School District is looking to pass its first operating levy since 2012 and only the second since 1992 during Portage County’s Primary/Special Election on May 4.

A renewal tax levy to generate $1,045,000 per year for the Rootstown Local School District will be on the ballot at Portage County’s May 4 election.