Piggybacking off my most recent Round Two column centered around Memorial Day, and with yesterday being the 80th anniversary of D-Day, today I’m going to tell the story of three veterans I met on the World War II Memorial Battlefield Tour of Western Europe that my wife and I took in June 2002.
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Tom Hardesty is a Portager sports columnist. He was formerly assistant sports editor at the Record-Courier and author of the book Glimpses of Heaven.
Ravenna’s 225th Anniversary Celebration will take place Saturday, June 8, and it’s actually a two-for-one deal: The birthday bash will be held in conjunction with Main Street Ravenna’s Art on Main event, a free art and music festival that will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in downtown Ravenna.
Portage County Land Reutilization Corporation, known as the Land Bank, returned 52 properties to the tax rolls in 2023 and demolished 230 vacant and blighted properties, according to the quasi-governmental organization's latest annual report.
With 2024 marking my 30-year anniversary of covering sports in Portage County, I figured I’d take a walk down memory lane and look back at the years I spent covering high school track and field (and cross country, too, since it’s pretty much the same coaches and athletes). The stories are endless, but I thought I’d cull a few of my favorites for Round Two.
March 4 marked 30 years since the day I was hired at the Record-Courier.
A stiff breeze whipped off the English Channel as its waves angrily crashed ashore behind me.
Welcome to Part 3 of my 30-year retrospective of my days shoeleathering around Portage County covering high school track & field. I could write a book on these experiences, which cover a period of roughly a decade from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, but, short of a publishing deal, a few Round Two columns will have to do.
Students with Kent Roosevelt High School’s Forestry and Landscape Management program recently received some valuable on-the-job training — and helped Ohio regain a little of itself in the process.
Windham Township continues to deal with the aftermath of the EF-1 tornado that ripped through farm and residential areas April 17. The storm damaged numerous homes and displaced families. You can help the community recover.
Each year, Kent State University community members and visitors gather on the Kent State Commons for the annual May 4 Commemoration to pay tribute to those who were killed and wounded on May 4, 1970.
Chrissy Motz didn’t need to jump into freezing water to make a huge splash for the Special Olympics of Ohio.