University Hospitals Kent Health Center in October. Michael Indriolo/The Portager ‘Unrelenting’ Covid-19 surge launches Portage County into purple Local health officials...
Portage County entered Covid-19 risk level four, the highest possible, after triggering six of the state health department’s seven risk level indicators, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday. Michael Indriolo/The Portager
With over $50 million in federal aid pouring into Portage County, several local officials said they were hoping to use the money to patch up infrastructure and bulk up department budgets.
At the height of the pandemic, UH Portage Medical Center had to reconfigure its morgue to accommodate the surge of Covid-19 victims. And they feared there would be more.
‘You can revive a cafe, but you can’t revive someone back from the dead’ Kent State epidemiologist Dr. Tara Smith breaks...
Leighann Fink lost her bid for county recorder, then faced the prospect of losing her mother to Covid-19.
Covid-19 has killed 2.8 million people across the globe. Some of them were our friends or family members. Over 10,000 people in Portage County have tested positive for Covid-19, and many more may have had it and transmitted it without knowing. Each of us has been disrupted by it. This timeline is a chronicle of the pandemic in our community.
At Monday night’s meeting, the Aurora City Schools' Board of Education approved a new policy that will make mask wearing optional in the school system effective Jan. 25. The resolution was approved in a 4-1 vote.
The Aurora Board of Education will vote Monday night on a resolution that would make masks optional starting in January, according to an agenda posted on the district website.
Commissioners removed Covid restrictions, including social distancing and mask requirements, as of June 2 in all offices under the commissioners' control.