An outdoor open house under sunny skies June 25 at Kent’s Thomas-Anderson Memorial Garden gave visitors an opportunity to soak up the flavor of its natural and artificial elements and the area where it’s located.
Rootstown’s Alexia Van Snick was first introduced to baseball when her uncle gave her a tee-ball set when she was 4. Her love for the game snowballed from there.
Every hot air balloon rally — and Ravenna’s Balloon A-Fair is one one of them — is ruled by a balloonmeister: a person who coordinates all flight operations, working with a weather officer and a safety officer. The balloonmeister also communicates the flight mission to the balloonists.
Back house employees Taylor Talley and Andrew Lyon form dough into loaves while Ryleigh Butler wraps dough in plastic and...
These days, Palmyra Township’s Old Stagecoach Inn is a deteriorating hulk, but it's soon to be the subject of a Discovery Channel documentary set to air in late 2024 or early 2025.
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.
When Holden Elementary School third grade teacher Garrison Wollam was diagnosed with cancer in October 2019, he knew he wasn’t going to be able to wear the popular “Fuck Cancer” apparel that many people impacted by the disease wear.
Ravenna Elks fundraiser supports local woman’s effort to document veteran’s gravesites across county
The Ravenna Elks Lodge #1076 held its second annual chili cook-off fundraising event on Feb. 1, with all proceeds going to Chris Untrauer’s veteran grave-marking project at Portage County cemeteries.
In 2009, the Reeves opened Kelly's Grief Center in Acorn Alley in Kent. Today, Kelly’s Grief Center provides individual and group therapy to almost 100 people at a time struggling with loss, not the least because of Covid.
When Christine Untrauer learned that local fallen Vietnam veteran Willie Ross Dennis didn’t have a grave marker, she was determined to change that.
Portage Community Bank is under new leadership, but customers can expect the transition at the top to be a smooth one.