Charity events — Week of April 8
This WeekSaturdayRed Cross Bash Fundraiser — 6 p.m. at the MAPS Air Museum, 2260 International Parkway, North Canton. Live and silent auctions, raffle and more. Wear khakis, medical or military attire....
View ArticleFormer co-worker remembers slain Akron McDonald’s employee as man with caring...
The 28-year-old Akron man who was fatally shot Saturday while taking garbage to a trash bin in the parking lot of a McDonald’s restaurant at 309 W. Market St. was remembered on Sunday as a man with a...
View ArticleCuyahoga Falls council to vote on block grant plan
CUYAHOGA FALLS: City Council will decide tonight whether to approve plans to spend nearly $1 million in Community Development Block Grants and related money.The total includes an anticipated $500,000...
View ArticleLocal history: Police raid at alcoholic hospital makes headlines in 1950s
Investigators spent months of surveillance at the building, quietly observing the arrival and departure of guests, noting every vehicle that parked in the lot and using binoculars to peer into windows...
View ArticleNew meditation center opens in Cuyahoga Falls
CUYAHOGA FALLS: Richard Weiner imagines a day when there is no war, no violence in the streets and no unequal distribution of resources.“We’re working for peace. We’re here to help people attain...
View ArticleNewton prompts memories of Seiberling’s past
Bob Gordan led the last class he taught up a steel ladder and through an access hatch in the roof at Seiberling Elementary in 1988 … or was it the 1987 class?Gordan, 84, recalls that day from an...
View ArticleAkron students excel in tough transition to college while in high school
They’re not the average exceptional students.And that’s not an oxymoron.MacKenzie Brunswick does her homework at a halfway house. After a dispute with her mother that left her homeless nearly a year...
View ArticleBill O’Reilly bashing of UA wrong, university says
The University of Akron says an O’Reilly Factor report about liberalism on college campuses mischaracterized a course taught at the university. On Thursday’s installment of the Fox News program, host...
View ArticleMcDonald’s homicide victim recalled as gentle musician
Friends say he was gentle, generous soul, who strummed his guitar whenever and wherever he could. In his younger days, John Lehman would take his music to the streets of Highland Square, playing his...
View ArticleLocal news briefs —April 9
AKRONRoad rage injuryAKRON: An Akron woman suffered a gunshot wound to her shoulder after she and the driver of a car she was riding in became involved in a road rage dispute with another driver.The...
View ArticleWadsworth offers savings on electric costs
WADSWORTH: The city’s Electric and Communications Department is offering its customers an opportunity to receive free compact fluorescent bulbs and digital thermometers this month.Electricity customers...
View ArticleAkron to get first natural gas filling station open to the public
Akron will soon have its first natural gas filling station open to the public.Akron City Council approved plans Monday for J Rayl Transport, a regional trucking company, to add a compressed natural gas...
View ArticleFairway Park Properties suit against Copley Township officials and Walmart is...
The attorney representing Fairway Park Properties dismissed the lawsuit filed against Copley Township, Walmart, township trustees and township zoning inspectors over the zoning of the proposed site for...
View ArticleAP source: Ohio House to drop Medicaid expansion
COLUMBUS: A Republican-controlled legislative panel will drop Gov. John Kasich’s proposal to expand the Medicaid program from the state’s two-year budget plan, the Associated Press has learned, as...
View ArticleBob Dyer: Addie Gamauf’s America
The story of Addie Gamauf is, in many ways, the story of America.Almost a fortnight ago (as they used to say), the diminutive 99-year-old hardware store owner moved on to wherever it is we go when we...
View ArticleProsecutors want to try 14-year-old as an adult in slaying of New Franklin...
Prosecutors are seeking to try a 14-year-old boy as an adult in the slaying of a New Franklin couple.The motion was announced during an arraignment hearing Monday morning in Summit County Juvenile...
View ArticleArea deaths — April 8
MEDINACarpenter, Karen Sue, 72, of Litchfield Township. Died Saturday. Waite & Son, Medina.Morris, Walter “Gene” Jr., 85, of Medina. Died Sunday. Waite & Son.Smith, Duane W., 85, of Medina....
View ArticleKorean War vets sought for Cuyahoga Falls parade
CUYAHOGA FALLS: Those who fought and died in the Korean War will be honored this year at the Memorial Day parade and ceremony in Cuyahoga Falls.Because of that, officials would like as many Korean War...
View ArticleAn entire miniature German Panzer division on permanent display at Alliance...
ALLIANCE: The scope of the German Army during World War II can be seen inside a room at the World War History & Art Museum here.What visitors to the museum that opened two years ago will find is an...
View ArticleKing CLC opening likely to be delayed due to moisture problem
Akron school officials say a water barrier that was “not properly” installed at the King Community Learning Center (CLC) will likely delay its opening.“Our main concern is that this is pushing the...
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