Community members gather in Rootstown High School’s cafeteria for a special Board of Education meeting on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020....
Portage County NAACP President Geraldine Hayes-Nelson and Rootstown Board of Education President Amanda Waesch speak to Rootstown residents during a...
Rootstown Board of Education President Amanda Waesch speaks to Rootstown residents during a community forum at Northeast Ohio Medical University...
Portage County NAACP President Geraldine Hayes-Nelson (right) and Rootstown Board of Education President Amanda Waesch speak to Rootstown residents during...
Rootstown trustees honored John "Flash" Gordon, a longtime township firefighter and teacher, at their meeting Tuesday. Gordon served Rootstown for 31 years as a firefighter. He taught Rootstown high school students for 38 years, most recently focusing on government and psychology. He was honored as the Rootstown Township Lions Club citizen of the year in 2003 and 2004.
Rootstown trustees say motorists and residents should not be alarmed if they see some low-flying helicopters this spring. First Energy will be trimming trees around the township. The company often uses aerial saws to trim branches around power lines.Trustees voted down a proposed zoning change at a public hearing on April 13, to the disappointment of residents Jeff and William Parsons.
A renewal tax levy to generate $1,045,000 per year for the Rootstown Local School District will be on the ballot at Portage County’s May 4 election.
Just over 11% of registered Portage County voters turned out to vote in Tuesday's election to decide on a school levies, a children's services levy and an open Streetsboro City Council seat. Here are the results of the most-watched ballot items.
Charlestown will observe Memorial Day with a short parade and ceremony at 11 a.m. Sunday, May 30. Children are encouraged to decorate their bicycles and join the procession. Participants should arrive at the fire station at 10:30 a.m. to get organized for the short parade to the cemetery.
Portage County Retired Teachers has granted four $2,000 scholarships to aspiring teachers.
So where are we with high school athletics and Covid-19? To answer that question, I turned to Rootstown High School athletic director, golf and baseball coach Keith Waesch to take a look at where we've been in the last year-plus and where we're going with respect to the upcoming 2021-22 school year, particularly the rapidly approaching fall sports season, as we grind through a two steps forward, one step back post-pandemic America.
The Davises built this pantry on wheels themselves in the wake of the pandemic and food insecurity crisis that followed. Known as the Rural Relief Mobile Food Pantry, their mission is to meet the needs specifically of rural Portage County, where pockets of the population experience the additional difficulty of living in a food desert.