Three Portage County police chiefs fielded questions from residents Thursday about police policies around use of force, community oversight and mental health crisis intervention.
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Lyndsey Brennan is a Portager general assignment reporter. She is completing her master's degree in journalism at Kent State and is an alumna of the Dow Jones News Fund internship program. Contact her at [email protected].
Kent Roosevelt High School administrators called the police around noon and locked down the school for about 10 minutes after a student reported to staff members that another student brought a gun to school.
Voters in Brimfield Township and the village of Mantua declined to authorize new taxes that would have helped hire more police officers, according to unofficial results of the Nov. 2 election.
Judges Mark Fankhauser and Kevin Poland each won another six years on the bench in Portage County Municipal Court, defeating their Republican-backed opponents by large margins in the Nov. 2 election.
Atwater and Randolph voters will decide among three candidates to fill two open seats on the Waterloo Local School District Board of Education on Nov. 2. Thomas Mignano II is challenging incumbents Brian Pusateri and Amber Wheeler.
Mantua resident Lorrie Atkinson doesn’t drive and can’t regularly make trips to the Garrettsville Branch of the Portage County District Library, a 15-minute drive away, to pick up books and magazines.
Fortunately for residents like Atkinson, the library can come to her.
People who go out on the weekend to grab brunch from Over Easy Morning Cafe in Kent’s Acorn Alley often find themselves waiting two hours for one of the establishment’s 13 tables. That will soon change.
By a razor-thin margin, voters approved a 1-mill levy to support the Portage County District Library, but the narrow tally will likely trigger an automatic recount that will decide the future of library programming.
Mantua village voters will see four tax questions on their ballot Nov. 2: a property tax increase for the Portage County District Library, renewals on the Crestwood Local Schools and Maplewood Joint Vocational School District levies, and a 0.5% income tax increase for the village police department.
Six newcomers are looking to fill seats on the Atwater Township Board of Trustees, giving voters an opportunity to select officials to represent their interests in discussions about the future of the Atwater Fire Department and the way the township handles its finances.
The Brimfield Police Department is asking voters to approve a 1.95-mill levy that would generate an additional $594,823 in funding per year and allow the department to hire at least two new officers, make equipment and vehicle upgrades, and provide ongoing training for employees.