- Wendy DiAlesandro
Five townships. Five fire chiefs. Five fire stations. Finances so tight that equipment is often purchased secondhand and departments rely on part-time and volunteer personnel. Sometimes stations aren’t staffed at all.
- Roger Gordon
The Paris Township Trustees are in the process of looking into joining a possible combined fire district that would include Charlestown, Palmyra, Deerfield and Edinburg.
- Roger Gordon
Deerfield is one of five Portage County townships that is looking to consolidate into one fire district. The other four townships are Edinburg, Paris, Palmyra and Charleston.
- Roger Gordon
The Rootstown Lions Club will be putting up banners downtown honoring local veterans leading up to Memorial Day on Monday, May 26. The banners will have the veterans’ names and photos on them.
- Wendy DiAlesandro
In a 3-1 vote, the Southeast Local Schools Board of Education on Jan. 15 appointed Danielle Buckner to fill a seat recently vacated by Dave Fesemyer.
- Wendy DiAlesandro
The Portage County prosecutor’s office has decided not to pursue a Deerfield Township employee’s allegation that a trustee had repeatedly subjected him to sexual harassment.
- Tom Hardesty
Deerfield Township Trustees voted unanimously Sept. 17 to terminate Brian Kelderhouse, a part-time firefighter/paramedic with the department, who was accused of sexually harassing a female member of the fire department.
- Jeremy Brown
At least 12 different schools throughout Northeast Ohio received social media threats last week, including one directed at Streetsboro City Schools.
- Wendy DiAlesandro
A public hearing to air allegations of sexual harassment against a Deerfield Township firefighter/paramedic has been postponed at the request of the accused’s attorney.
- Wendy DiAlesandro
Deerfield Township trustees are investigating two sexual harassment allegations, one against a female trustee and the other against a male fire department employee, according to complaints obtained by The Portager and interviews.
- Wendy DiAlesandro
With the passage of Issue 2 in November 2023, communities across the state have been enacting a wide range of regulations covering recreational and medical marijuana facilities.
- Roger Gordon
The Deerfield Township Trustees recently received the blueprints and engineering drawings for the addition to the township fire department.
- Wendy DiAlesandro
One current and one former Deerfield Township trustee say one of their colleagues violated Ohio’s Sunshine Laws by changing the terms of a building restoration contract without their knowledge, a decision that could become a liability with the state auditor’s office.
- Roger Gordon
A resolution was passed to have the Portage County engineer move forward with the bid specs to pave the mile-long Rootstown Community Park road, which is currently made of gravel.
- Ryan Lind
The board voted to appoint Mary Kaley as president pro tem from Jan. 1-Jan. 8 of 2024.
- Roger Gordon
The bridge by the corner of Newton Falls Road and Holcomb Road has been closed by Portage County until a new bridge is built. Brick barriers were put up on both sides.
- Wendy DiAlesandro
Among those votes were several surprises, ranging from the removal of several longtime elected officials, failed school levies, and the election of a township trustee who had been found guilty of embezzlement.
- Ben Wolford
Deerfield Township residents elected Laura Lindberg to its board of trustees, replacing incumbent Mark Bann, according to unofficial results of the Nov. 7 vote.