Last December, Zoey St. John of Windham joined Dean Caputo’s Powerhouse Gym in Streetsboro with the intention of simply getting fit. But after she met her then soon-to-be coach, Cecilia Izaurieta, things changed.
It's time to make plans to attend the 22nd Charlestown Summer Festival and Cruise In. Join in the fun on Saturday, August 2 from 3-7 p.m. at the Charlestown Township Park on Rock Spring Road. Admission is FREE and plenty of fun for all ages is planned.
Stained glass artist and Kent resident Joan Phillips, 66, will be attending the 14th annual Kent Art and Wine Festival in downtown Kent on June 4, from noon to 9 p.m. She has attended the festival since its inception in 2007.
Kent will be the site of two Juneteenth celebrations this year, one sponsored by the South End Juneteenth Committee June 19 at Plum Creek Park and another hosted by Kent State University June 18.
According to a recent survey of Portage County by Flat Wireless, there are 2,135 houses with 6,142 people underserved or unserved by broadband internet service providers (ISPs). The bulk of these are in the rural portions of eastern and northeastern Portage County. Broadband Now, an independent ISP watchdog based in Los Angeles, estimates 12% of Ohioans do not have high enough speeds.
One glance at the career resume of Mike Haney tells you that the Kent Roosevelt High School baseball coach has a boatload of impressive career accomplishments.
In fact, the lengthy list of numbers and honors is virtually overwhelming — and they're why the 1992 Roosevelt and '99 Kent State graduate is headed toward induction into the Greater Akron Baseball Hall of Fame later this year.
There are almost 100 cemeteries in Portage County, most of them shrouded in mysteries that can stop modern-day genealogists in their tracks.
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.
About 175 musicians and friends of Rockin' Robin Montgomery gathered at Kent's Plum Creek Park on Sunday for a celebration of life to honor a great musician gone too soon.
We're republishing this column by the late Roger Di Paolo, part three of his Black History Month series from earlier this year.
About 20 people from the Ravenna’s Skeels community gathered Friday at the United Church of Jesus Christ for a service called Midnight Cry to support those recovering from addiction disorders.