James Bierlair from the Portage Soil and Water Conservation District hands a fish to his daughter, Brie Bierlair, at the pond at the Skeels-Matthews Community Center in Ravenna on Wednesday, April 21, 2021.
The Portage Soil and Water Conservation District helped Skeels residents and community leaders stock the pond at the Skeels-Mathews Community Center on Wednesday.
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- by Wendy DiAlesandro . - It’s a well known journalistic truth: people stop reading when they see numbers. Would they still stop if they realized that each statistic represents a teenager’s daily life?
- by Roger Gordon . - Streetsboro City Council has been discussing the installation of six Flock cameras at the major approaches to the city: along state Route 14, state Route 43 and state Route 303.
- by Wendy DiAlesandro . - Founded in July 2025, the Community RECESS (Recreation, Resources, Community Service Supervision) Initiative is the brainchild of Aaron Mitchell, who worked with community navigator Frank Hairston to gently help individuals and families in Ravenna Township’s Skeels and McElrath neighborhoods build a sense of community, secure needed resources and unleash their community spirit.