Wendy DiAlesandro

Portage County’s board of commissioners is composed of three Republicans, but this November a Democrat is hoping to make it a 2-1 majority.

Brimfield Township residents will see Issue 27, a five-year, 1.95-mill additional tax levy to fund fire and emergency medical services for Brimfield’s fire department on their ballots for the Nov. 3 election.

Ravenna’s efforts to equalize the population size of its four wards is moving forward as City Council’s committee of the whole on Oct. 19 approved a new ward map.

Because of an ordinance Kent City Council authorized on Oct. 21, it is now illegal to feed certain wild critters on public or private property.

Shalersville trustees on Oct. 20 unanimously extended the township’s now years-long moratorium on data centers another six months.

The Aurora City School District is asking voters to approve Issue 4, a 37-year, 4.26-mill bond issue meant to finance building, furnishing and equipping a new elementary school and transportation facility, and to renovate, remodel, equip and otherwise improve school district infrastructure.

A plan to further regulate data centers in Shalersville hit a snag Oct. 14 as the Portage County Regional Planning Commission unanimously voted to table a slew of proposed conditional uses meant to make their way to the township trustees.

Two of Portage County’s cities have income tax measures on the November ballot, with Ravenna asking voters to approve an income tax hike from 2.5% to 2.75% and Kent seeking to make permanent a 25-year, .25% increase voters approved in 2013.

Streetsboro City Council is eying excluding registered sex offenders from city-owned playgrounds, parks and recreation facilities.

Shalersville Township trustees tweaked the township’s zoning code on Oct. 6, effectively making it more difficult for Geis Companies and Bitdeer Technologies Group to site a 750-megawatt data center campus on just over 150 acres of Geis-owned land near the Ohio Turnpike.

In the Nov. 3 election, Paris Township residents will decide Issue 31, a measure to repeal the township’s zoning regulations altogether.

Work on a neighborhood-wide sewer project in Ravenna Township’s Chinn Allotment has hit a snag, courtesy of supply chain issues and FirstEnergy, the parent company of Ohio Edison.

Former Mantua Police Chief Joseph Urso’s legal effort to get his job back has hit a roadblock and potential dead end.

The Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank is ground zero when it comes to providing food for Portage County’s hungriest people.

Shalersville’s Zoning Commission on Sept. 10 approved a handful of amendments to the township’s zoning code that could affect a contentious proposed data center campus.

Registering to vote may not be as self-evident as one might think. Enter your address and other identifying information, and off you go.

Brimfield Township is in financial trouble, but exactly how deep the hole is, who’s responsible and what to do about it remain unknown.

Standing room-only crowds at Shalersville Town Hall don’t faze local hairstylist Tiffany Olson.