The Village of Mantua is hoping to raise over $200,000 more a year from taxpayers starting in 2022 through an income tax hike meant to offset the potential loss of a dispatching contract with Garrettsville that expires in December.
So where are we with high school athletics and Covid-19? To answer that question, I turned to Rootstown High School athletic director, golf and baseball coach Keith Waesch to take a look at where we've been in the last year-plus and where we're going with respect to the upcoming 2021-22 school year, particularly the rapidly approaching fall sports season, as we grind through a two steps forward, one step back post-pandemic America.
In honor of my first spring sports season with The Portager, I thought this was a good time for some lighter fare. So in that vein, let's take a walk down memory lane and revisit some of the high — make that low — moments of my first year covering spring sports in Portage County for the Record-Courier.
The Windham Exempted Village School District is hoping to pass Issue 10, an additional tax levy, to raise funds to replace an aging heating system.
In the first Don Faix Invitational at Bridget Franek Track, the Field Falcons girls track and field team took first...
This month last year, country singer-songwriter Steve Earle buried his eldest son, Justin Townes Earle. Friday night, when Earle and his band, The Dukes, returned to The Kent Stage, they remembered and celebrated Justin by playing his songs.
Several years ago, Susan Monegan, president of Fields Playground Group, noticed a lack of equipment for kids with disabilities at most of the playgrounds around Portage County. Her granddaughter, Mila DiGirolamo, did not have many opportunities to play on the structures because they were not accessible to her.
We will be discussing the book “The Atomic Weight of Love” by Elizabeth J Church....
The Portage County Sheriff’s Office is seeking another $1.7 million from taxpayers to hire 13 new corrections officers to staff the massive expansion at the county jail, which cost $21 million and has never been full since construction finished in December.
Kent’s top health official said merging the city’s health department with its Portage County counterpart would be detrimental to residents, possibly leading to more work for fewer staffers and higher costs and fees for services.
After more than 50 years of serving Portage County, Rivers Garage and Body Shop has closed permanently.
Lifelong Ravenna residents Halley Rivers Jones and his wife Opal owned and operated the shop for many years until they retired.