Rain isn’t the only baseball-season annoyance. Parents taking their kids to Hot Stove Baseball games at Volunteer Park in Ravenna know this well, as most of them have navigated the pothole-riddled road to the fields.
When Marc Robinson was in a severe traffic accident in January, the people of Portage County came together to support him and make sure both he — and his dog — made it back to Idaho safely.
Ten-year-old Esther Potoczek of Tallmadge could barely contain her excitement as she recounted her experience at the 2023 Portage County Randolph Fair.
Tuesday night they were both in the grandstand of the Randolph Fair at the demolition derby among thousands of Portage County residents. Even though Lauren was looking right at him, she didn’t recognize her husband. He was dressed up as a horse.
Throughout Lego history, millions of people have been introduced to the colorful plastic bricks, including Kent residents E.J. Bocan III, 39, and his wife, Abbie, 37. But unlike most Lego fans, this couple used them to build a successful business.
Kent resident Chad Schrack is in the midst of a 60-to-70-day kayaking trip down the Mississippi River, his latest feat to raise awareness and donations for colorectal cancer since his wife Sheila was diagnosed in 2006.
Halem, a Kent resident who ran the university’s glass program for nearly three decades before retiring in 1998, said he carried his grief and anger about 9/11 with him for about 10 years before he was able to make art about it.
Dogs should have treats, too, especially during the holiday season. With this in mind, I went to Duma Meats in Suffield and selected a soup bone from their smoked meats bin.
The history of motorcycles is on display in Ravenna at Bear’s Vintage Motorcycle and Memorabilia Museum.
For the past two years, Morgan Schweitzer, 17, of Mogadore, has been attending equestrian competitions in Northeast Ohio with a young Arabian mare that was rescued from a slaughter truck in 2019.
Housing construction techniques have come a long way since the Paleolithic Period, but that didn’t stop author and anthropologist Bob Kunst from building a Stone Age village in a stand of trees on the Portage County Historical Society’s 11-acre campus in Ravenna.