Aurora High School students will soon be tapping away on new computers. The district’s school board on Monday agreed to lease 27 new iMac computers for the Mac Lab. The computers will cost $25,470 per year for three years, with a $1 buyout.
When a homeowner's wastewater system goes bad, the cost is substantial. When a city's wastewater system needs attention, the price tag is huge. That's the case in Aurora, which on Monday awarded an $8.5 million contract to Chardon's Cold Harbor Building Co. to upgrade the city's central wastewater treatment plant. The facility's current tank is undersized and unable to handle the amount of sludge that needs to be processed.
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.
The sleek metal roofs you normally see in HGTV home remodels are generally prohibited in Aurora — but that might be changing. Monday night, Aurora City Council voted to overturn the Architectural Board of Review’s decision to deny new resident Ron Wolford a permit to install a standing seam metal roof.
The Portage County District Library will again ask for help from taxpayers after at least a dozen previous levy attempts have failed at the ballot box, leaving the district as the third-worst funded library in the state. Last week, county commissioners approved the library's request to place a 1 mill levy on the Nov. 2 ballot.
Aurora’s 2022 tax budget, approved by city council Monday night, includes a $1.8 million spending increase for law enforcement compared with 2019, when the city spent $7.6 million.
The Portage County Solid Waste Management District is facing a driver shortage that could threaten to reduce pickups to biweekly service, instead of weekly.
The city of Aurora's pickup service will reduce to every other week, according a statement from the Portage County Solid Waste Management District.
As a parent of two young, unvaccinated children in Aurora's public schools, I strongly urge our superintendent and school board to rethink the decision to not mandate the use of masks among this group of unvaccinated children.
Out of Portage County’s 12 public school systems, only Kent City Schools and Bio-Med Science Academy will require students to wear masks. Those two districts flipped their original decisions after public outcry against masks-optional policies. The remaining school districts, including Aurora, said that until they are required to enforce a mask mandate, they will leave the masking decision up to parents.
his has admittedly been a divisive year for many in the Aurora City School District. However, I believe all voters can agree that it is incredibly frustrating when elected leaders appear openly apathetic to the issues faced by the district and the concerns of constituents.