- Wendy DiAlesandro. Juneteenth, also called Freedom Day, has been celebrated since 1866. President Joe Biden declared it a federal holiday on June 17, 2021, but Portage County communities celebrated it before that and continue to do so.
- Adriana Gasiewski. Cochairs of the revived Captain Brady Day Annette McMullen and Charlie Hall grew up attending the community festival at Brady Lake. McMullen recalled how the event was less centered around Captain Samuel Brady but bringing the then-Brady Lake Village community together.
- Savana Capp. In addition to the closures of West Park and West Main elementaries, Ravenna City Schools might be introducing another building change.
- Wendy DiAlesandro. Towner’s Woods is getting some updates, but they mean the park will be closed for the summer— and maybe longer.
- Roger Gordon. On May 13, Ravenna Township Trustee Vince Coia and staff from the Portage County Engineer’s Office attended a virtual meeting with the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) to discuss some troubled intersections that travel through the township.
- Angie Reedy. Everyone is invited to honor our fallen soldiers and watch the Ravenna Memorial Day Parade from the porch of City Gardener & Florist at 329 N. Chestnut St. at 10 a.m. Monday, May 25.
- Wendy DiAlesandro. Ravenna City Council members met May 11 to consider a number of items, including lowering speed limits on Main Street.
- Wendy DiAlesandro. Disappointed by May’s primary election results, school and city officials across Portage County know they have work to do before November.
- Wendy DiAlesandro. Sun Beau Valley Event Center (formerly Sunbeau Valley Farm) will be the site of two events this summer, both hosted by Ravenna’s Parks and Recreation Department.
- Rachel Abbey McCafferty. The Kent City School District got a decisive win in Tuesday’s election, as its 9.8-mill additional tax levy passed 3,125 to 2,225.
- Roger Gordon. The planning commission forwarded a resolution to Streetsboro City Council to put a 12-month moratorium on accepting applications for data centers and/or cryptocurrency centers.
- Wendy DiAlesandro. Heading off a local landowner’s apparent desire to site a data center on his property, Ravenna City Council on April 20 unanimously authorized a one-year moratorium on such facilities.
- Wendy DiAlesandro. Ravenna city leaders are thinking about big changes, including adopting a city manager form of government, consolidating the city and township and creating a fire district.
- Wendy DiAlesandro. When the topic is data centers, Ravenna city officials seem split. Local administrators say a proposal to site a data center within city limits is no big deal, but City Council’s planning committee is racing to impose a one-year moratorium on such facilities.
- Wendy DiAlesandro. County officials were told last month Congressman Dave Joyce’s office had scored $2 million in U.S. EPA grant money to help property owners in Ravenna Township’s Chinn Allotment, but who will get how much remains a mystery.
- Angie Reedy. Immaculate Conception Parish is hosting Spring Fling Music Bingo from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 25 for all the southern Portage County parishes. The event will be held at the I-C Hall at 251 W. Spruce Ave. in Ravenna. Tickets are $25.
- Wendy DiAlesandro. For the first time in more than 50 years, Ravenna’s ward and precinct boundaries are set be redrawn.
- Roger Gordon. The Streetsboro City School District and the City of Streetsboro entered into a memorandum of understanding to be able to utilize WSTB 88.9 FM, Streetsboro High School’s radio station, as the city’s go-to emergency radio broadcasting center.