The new tower for Kent’s chimney swift population will feature designs from a local artist, and the site plan includes a pollinator garden, replacing the overgrown patch of weeds currently occupying the space. Rhonda Boyd, a city engineer, presented the details to Kent’s Architectural Review Board last week.
Buckeye Relief hopes to move into a vacant building on West Main Street. Kent's Architectural Review Board favors the plan, and several neighbors in the area say they would welcome the new tenant.
Judging by comments readers have sent us, confusion still reigns over recycling. It doesn't help that the Portage County Solid Waste Management District's website is outdated and misleading.
Outdoor seating is coming back to Franklin Avenue, giving Kent's downtown businesses another season of reprieve from the economic fallout of the pandemic's social distancing requirements. Kent City Council approved the road closure from Erie Street to Main Street effective May 7 to Oct. 4, tentatively.
Kent City School District is exchanging an eight-acre property and the building that once housed Franklin School for a 1.75-acre lot adjacent to Stanton Middle School, currently owned by The Davey Tree Expert Company. Davey Tree will supplement the exchange with $456,000 and extended parking at 12 evening events at Roosevelt Stadium.
Having cleared the second of three hurdles necessary to bring a licensed medical marijuana dispensary to Kent, Buckeye Relief is now waiting for the state's next move.
Kent's Planning Commission approved Buckeye's application for a conditional use permit earlier this week, setting the stage for a dispensary at 1181 West Main Street.
There will be no Kent Heritage Festival this year, and Franklin Avenue will be closed to through traffic starting today, Kent City Council decided this week. Franklin Avenue will be closed from Erie Street to Main Street from May 7 to Oct. 4 (tentatively). The idea is to provide outdoor seating as downtown businesses struggle to cope with Covid-19 social distancing advisories.
Kent City Council and state Rep. Gail Pavliga are taking action to oppose a section of Ohio’s 2022-2023 budget bill (HB 110) that could threaten the future of the Kent City Health Department.
A provision in the bill would require small city health departments serving a population of fewer than 50,000 to complete a study to determine if they are efficient and effective enough to operate on their own, apart from their county counterparts. If passed, the law would mandate the Kent health department to merge with the Portage County Health District if it doesn’t measure up against the study criteria.
Women once again took to the stage to share their stories after more than a year since the pandemic paused Fearless Femme live storytelling shows. While lines once extended out the door of the Zephyr Pub in Kent for Fearless Femme, attendees flocked to a new location, North Water Brewing Co., last Tuesday for the first live show in over a year.
One dreams of becoming a high school band director. The second plans to study neuroscience, especially how the brain and memory work. The third wants to be an astronomer and continue his ongoing research into dark matter. All three — Madison Walker, Claire Laux and Alexander Green — also are winners of the Lions Club of Kent’s John Ferlito Memorial Scholarship.
Kent’s top health official said merging the city’s health department with its Portage County counterpart would be detrimental to residents, possibly leading to more work for fewer staffers and higher costs and fees for services.
We spoke with Steve Sosebee, a Kent native and founder of the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, a humanitarian NGO that supports children in the Middle East. During the 11-day bombing of Gaza, the Israeli military killed hundreds of civilians and destroyed many soft targets, including the office of the PCRF.