Park district signs contract with design firm for exhibits
Metro Parks, Serving Summit County, has signed a contract with an Illinois-based firm to design and build exhibits for the new Liberty Park Nature Center in Twinsburg.The park commissioners on...
View ArticleLocal news briefs — Feb. 14
AKRONBook in worksAKRON: When former Deputy Mayor Dave Lieberth retired in December after 10 years with the city, he said he wanted to write a book about Akron.It looks like that’s going to happen. The...
View ArticleHarvest for Hunger kicks off this week
AKRON:If it’s possible to upstage Dan Flowers when he starts proselytizing about the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank’s mission — this year, to raise $1 million through the annual Harvest for Hunger...
View ArticleAkron police captains seek ouster of new assistant chief
Six Akron police captains have asked the Ohio Supreme Court to remove newly appointed Assistant Chief Charles Brown.The captains say the mayor’s hiring of Brown is illegal and in violation of the...
View ArticleCommunity Pregnancy Center
Center detailsAddress: 1058 Wooster Road W, Barberton, 44203.Hours of operation:• 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays.• Noon to 2:30 p.m. Fridays.• 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays, plus 6 to 8 p.m. the...
View ArticleUA Polsky Building evacuated on report of weapon
The University of Akron evacuated its Polsky Building in downtown Akron and canceled evening classes there after a woman reported seeing someone in the building with a weapon.Akron Police Department...
View ArticleBarberton Pregnancy Center offers clients clothes, diapers, formula, car...
BARBERTON: Watching a 40-minute video on shaken baby syndrome left young father Justin Carlson visibly upset. After leaving the private viewing room at the Community Pregnancy Center on Wooster Road...
View ArticleMom sympathizes with student who loses appeal
It was the second phone call from Akron Public Schools in less than a week, and more bad news.The appeal hearing for Paul Eddleman’s son, Nathan, was unsuccessful. The freshman at Ellet High School...
View ArticleFlash mob at Chapel Hill asks to end violence against women
More than a dozen people broke into a dance before the fountain at Chapel Hill Mall late Thursday, part of a global flash mob to celebrate the 15th anniversary of V-Day with a message to end violence...
View ArticleJames tackles Akron, state issues in ‘State of the Schools’ speech
Akron Public Schools Superintendent David James gave his fifth annual “State of the Schools” address Thursday, detailing challenges stemming from the governor’s school funding plan, declining...
View ArticleWaterloo student reportedly approached by man in orange car
Beacon Journal staff reportA Waterloo High School student reported being approached by a man in a boxy orange car at her bus stop at about 7 a.m. Friday on Industry Road in Atwater Township.She told...
View ArticleMunroe Falls to appeal ruling on drilling to Ohio Supreme Court
Munroe Falls will ask the Ohio Supreme Court to weigh in on whether oil and gas well drillers must follow city ordinances requiring construction and zoning permits.Mayor Frank Larson said on Friday...
View ArticleStark County sheriff will be paid
CANTON: Stark County Auditor Alan Harold has reversed his decision not to pay new Sheriff George Maier.Harold had announced earlier this week that he wouldn’t pay Maier because of an ongoing lawsuit...
View ArticleLocal news briefs — Feb. 16
akron$6,000 to aid vetAKRON: About $6,000 has been raised or pledged so far to help Army veteran Larry Modic purchase another house after his Manchester Road home was torn down by the city of Akron...
View ArticleFolk artist Winfred Rembert to attend film screening at Akron church
Winfred Rembert, a folk artist who tells the story of his journey through the segregated South and the civil-rights movement via leather carvings and paintings, will present the film All of Me: The...
View ArticleArea deaths — Feb. 15
MEDINAHarper, Derek S., 20, of Medina. Died Wednesday. Waite & Son.STARKCraven, Cecil W., 82, of Alliance. Died Thursday. Cassaday-Turkle-Christian.Goist, Ruth A., 84, of Massillon. Died Thursday....
View ArticlePolsky evacuation blamed on police academy recruit with plastic gun
Police have solved the mystery that led to the evacuation of a University of Akron building Thursday night.The Polsky Building in downtown Akron was cleared after 5 p.m. Thursday after a woman called...
View ArticleAkron man Dawud El Spaulding sentenced to death in fatal shootings
A 30-year-old Akron man has been sentenced to death for the 2011 deaths of two people and a related shooting that left a man paralyzed in the side doorway of a Grant Street home. Summit County Common...
View ArticleElections board disqualifies Lakemore candidate
The Summit County elections board Friday disqualified a candidate from running for Lakemore council based on a felony conviction.But, federal court records show that Tracy Douglas was charged with...
View ArticleNonprofit lay group ministers to widows
Beverly Dannemiller was devastated when she lost her husband of 58 years, Richard, more than a year ago.Although she attended grief-support classes, she still experienced loneliness and wasn’t sure...
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