Canton board names acting superintendent
CANTON: A native son is leading the city schools with Monday’s appointment of McKinley High School graduate Adrian Allison as interim superintendent.The Board of Education promoted Allison to the...
View ArticleJewell Cardwell: Turkey Day Game feeding football tradition and the poor
If you don’t have specific kitchen duties Thanksgiving Day morning and long for the time when your family — usually minus Mom — poured out to attend the annual Turkey Day Game, also known as the Akron...
View ArticleHealth officer taking over supervision of the Canton Sanitation Department
CANTON: The new chief of the city’s garbage collection effort is a man on a mission.Mark Adams wants to eliminate, or at least reduce, the 3,300 complaints the Health Department receives about garbage...
View ArticleStormer defeats McCarty for probate judge
For the first time in more than three decades, a Democrat will run the Summit County Probate Court.In a race that pitted two of the parties’ most popular sitting common pleas judges, Judge Elinore...
View ArticleOhio voters reject statewide issues
COLUMBUS: Ohio voters on Tuesday rejected a proposal to change the process for redrawing state legislative and congressional maps.State Issue 2 lost after a fight that pitted voter advocacy groups and...
View ArticleSummit sheriff’s race goes to Democrat Barry
Democrat Steve Barry easily won election as Summit County sheriff Tuesday, marking the first time since 2000 that voters had faced a choice for the county’s top law enforcement officer.Barry, 55, of...
View ArticleDemocrats maintain Summit County seats
Summit County Democrats were well on their way late Tuesday to strengthening their stranglehold on county offices.Democrats were leading all but one of the non-judicial seats up for election — and most...
View ArticleSawyer, Sykes win re-election to state legislature
Local political veterans State Sen. Tom Sawyer and State Rep. Vernon Sykes, both Democrats from Akron, easily won re-election to the Ohio legislature Tuesday.Other incumbents in the Ohio House also...
View ArticleRegion news briefs — Nov. 6
AKRONGirl in meth houseAKRON: Police arrested a 22-year-old woman after finding a 2-year-old girl in a suspected meth house.Melissa S. Brown of the 700 block of Eastland Avenue was arrested Monday...
View ArticleVoters approve Summit CSB levy
Summit County voters Tuesday agreed to financing Children Services for another six years.The Children Services Board asked voters to renew its 2.25-mill, six-year levy that raises about $26.2 million...
View ArticleAkron schools win levy request
Akron voters Tuesday gave a resounding yes to new money for the city school district.“We’ll be able to continue some of the work that we started over four years ago,” Akron School Superintendent David...
View ArticleLong lines shorten tempers at crowded Summit County polling sites
Lots of Summit County residents voted Tuesday with frowns on their faces.Some voting locations didn’t have enough booths. Others didn’t have signs directing voters were to go. And voters casting...
View ArticleJim Renacci win means Summit County no longer has representative in Congress
Summit County no longer has a representative in Congress.U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci was leading U.S. Rep. Betty Sutton in the hotly contested 16th Congressional District race Tuesday night with about 52...
View ArticleHow we voted
How we votedResults, pages B1-3*Indicates incumbentX indicates winnerU.S. SENATEX Sherrod Brown*Josh MandelScott A. RupertU.S. HOUSE DISTRICTS13thMarisha G. AganaX Tim Ryan*14thDale Virgil BlanchardX...
View ArticleDriller pleased with results from wells tapping Utica shale in eastern Ohio
Gulfport Energy Corp. is so pleased with its first dozen Utica shale wells in eastern Ohio that the Oklahoma-based energy company is prepared to spend up to $225 million next year to drill 50...
View ArticleBob Dyer: Three strikes and you’re in
Congratulations to Summit County Executive Russ Pry and his administration for winning re-election by a landslide.Now maybe you guys can get serious about keeping an eye on our tax dollars without...
View ArticleJury out in Akron slayings
A Summit County jury ended its first full day of deliberations Wednesday without reaching verdicts in the capital murder trial of Dawud El Spaulding of Akron.The jury, which is sequestered at an...
View ArticleArea school districts reel after levy failures, budget cuts
Since 2007, Barberton City Schools has slashed its operating budget in an attempt to weather the recession, decreasing property tax revenue, fleeting federal stimulus dollars and state budget cuts.The...
View ArticleLocal news briefs - Nov. 8
AKRONInitiative to launchAKRON: The Akron Urban League is launching a new initiative called the Ice House Program.It is an introduction to becoming an entrepreneur or getting an entrepreneurial mindset...
View ArticleRailroad conference coming to Akron
Train and history buffs will make more than a whistle stop in Akron this weekend.The Northeast Ohio Historic Passenger Rail Conference will include field trips, lectures and exhibits over three days,...
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