At Monday night’s meeting, the Aurora City Schools' Board of Education approved a new policy that will make mask wearing optional in the school system effective Jan. 25. The resolution was approved in a 4-1 vote.
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Natalie Wolford is managing editor at The Portager. A native of Randolph, she studied film in New York City and is producing a feature-length documentary about her aunt, a small-town journalist.
The Portage County Retired Teachers Association awards grants supporting innovative ideas in the classroom and in schools. The grant committee received 20 applications for the 2022 awards. Four proposals were chosen to receive $500 toward their projects.
The Randolph-Suffield-Atwater Food Shelf distributed over 90 holiday baskets to clients on Monday at the Randolph Community Center. Volunteers hope to move similar operations closer to home soon, at its new building next to the Knights of Columbus Hall in Randolph.
The Kiwanis Club of Ravenna and other community volunteers gathered on Saturday to assemble a playground at the Community Action Council Youth and Family Center in Ravenna.
The final four classes to attend the Kent State University High School are reuniting in June 2022, 50 years after the school’s closure. The celebration will span the weekend of June 10-12, and will welcome all attendees of the school, which closed in 1972.
The City of Ravenna is looking for registered Ravenna voters to apply for the city's Charter Review Commission for 2022.
Renovations are complete on one Airbnb unit in the historic Riddle Block 9 building, the largest commercial building in downtown Ravenna.
Ravenna police arrested two individuals, apparently both students, after school yesterday for having a gun on the campus of Maplewood Career Center, Superintendent Randy Griffith said in an email to the school community early this morning.
Portage County Solid Waste Management District Director Bill Steiner is resigning effective Friday, Nov. 12. The board of commissioners will decide whether to formally accept his resignation at its next meeting on Nov. 18.
The AARP Foundation Tax-Aide program is looking for volunteers from the community to help Portage County residents file their personal taxes.
Upcoming fall events and details on local trick-or-treating
Mary Denny, a Suffield resident who was among the oldest people in the world at 111, died Tuesday, her family said.