Program gives Akron students the tools to build a house
Steven Donovan wants to stay in the family business — make that businesses.He’s a 17-year-old senior at Kenmore High School who is learning the building trades by helping to put up a house on Akron’s...
View ArticleLand with fracking potential offered for sale
A Texas-based energy company and its parent are working to complete the sale of a key portion of eastern Ohio holdings, but the deals on an estimated 539,000 acres at the heart of Ohio’s Utica shale...
View ArticleSummit Academy Steel Dragons find purpose in music
It’s a little after 6 o’clock on a Thursday evening and in the cramped, windowless and already sweaty room at the Summit Academy Middle School on Mogadore Road in Akron, the student musicians are...
View ArticleConvicted Akron killer Brett Hartmann takes death appeals to 11th hour
Brett Hartmann has never been so close to death.Three years ago, the condemned killer from Akron came within a week of being executed by the state of Ohio. Just last year, he came within three weeks of...
View ArticleAmish man charged with animal cruelty
LAURELVILLE, Ohio: An Amish farmer in Ohio is accused of keeping dozens of dogs in gruesome settings, including injured animals living in feces a foot deep.He counters that his dogs were taken because...
View ArticleCrime Watch — Nov. 11
Summit CountyAkronArrestsA Wyley Avenue man, 18, was charged with burglary. Police said the man broke into an Oakland Avenue residence and took a computer and three cameras.A woman from Green, 42, was...
View ArticleMacedonia will turn space at City Hall into senior center
MACEDONIA: As of Monday, City Hall’s community room will become the area’s newest senior center.Mayor Don Kuchta said he decided to give up attempts to get neighboring communities involved in a joint...
View ArticleLocal veteran reflects on war, service and love of books
He is a member of the Greatest Generation — times four. Army Lt. Col. Frank Klein came to know the heat and chill of war in three decades. Klein has no special plans today for Veterans Day, but on...
View ArticleCommunitywide effort directed at storm relief fund
The Akron Beacon Journal has partnered with FirstMerit Bank and the American Red Cross to set up a disaster relief fund to help the tens of thousands of East Coast residents displaced in the aftermath...
View ArticleVeterans in the United States
VETERANS IN THE U.S.According to the latest census figures, about 21.5 million veterans are living in the United States.Some demographics:■ 1.6 million women.■ 2.3 million African-Americans.■ 1.2...
View ArticleSummit County board aims to learn from voters’ complaints
An Akron man is wishing he’d listened to his wife about his method for voting. She warned him that Summit County had significantly cut precincts and polling locations and there could be long lines on...
View ArticleSummit County’s Veteran of the Year walked ashore with MacArthur
Harry Donovan Sr. stood a few feet away from one of the most important moments in the history of World War II. As Gen. Douglas MacArthur waded ashore in the Philippines at Leyte on Oct. 20, 1944,...
View ArticleArea deaths — Nov. 12
MedinaGalford, Emogene M., 91, of Wadsworth. Died Saturday. Hilliard-Rospert.StarkBruden, Nira B., 79, of Alliance. Died Saturday. Cassaday-Turkle-Christian.
View ArticleFlag ceremony links Cub Scouts and vets
KENT: One by one, 20 U.S. flags went up in smoke. For the 14 veterans who witnessed the flag retirement ceremony at the Freedom House, it was another chance to remember their sacrifices and those of...
View Article‘Hairspray’ showtimes
DetailsWhat: The Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray Where: Green High School, 1474 Boettler RoadWhen: 7 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday.Tickets: Reserved tickets are $10...
View ArticleWorld War II veteran from Summit County to receive diploma
The last graduate of the Class of 1943 at Norton High School will be awarded his diploma today.Resting alongside 7,991 other veterans at a cemetery in Belgium, Harold L. Lytle won’t be there to accept...
View ArticleCharity events — Week of Nov. 12
This WeekThursdayRaise the Roof Gala — 5-8 p.m. at O’Neil House, 1290 W. Exchange St., Akron. Proceeds benefit Rebuilding Together Greater Cuyahoga Valley. $50. 330-773-4100.Taste of Vintage — 6 p.m....
View ArticleJewell Cardwell: Unscheduled wedding, birth make for eventful time
A funny thing happened Friday morning as I was preparing to interview an Akron General Medical Center patient.She went into labor.The story began a day earlier, much of it shared by Amy Kilgore,...
View ArticleBlack, white students blend in play about segregation
GREEN: For three years, the Green High School drama department has tried to find a way for the suburban school’s musical theater students to perform the Tony award-winning Hairspray, an upbeat musical...
View Article18-year-old seriously injured in crash
BATH TWP.: An 18-year-old Medina County man was in Akron General Medical Center’s intensive care unit Monday after a weekend rollover crash on North Hametown Road, authorities said. Michael A. Grajzl...
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