Restoration & Redemption for Garrettsville’s Buckeye Block Building
Garrettsville - The holidays are prime time for devastation-turned-redemption dramas. For a real-time example, look no further than downtown Garrettsville and its restored historic district on Main Street. A little before-and-after reminder is in order, now that buildings are beautiful, lights are twinkling, and businesses are bustling. Just three short years ago, Main Street was in shambles. The sagging Buckeye...
Brosius Road Chip/Seal On Hold Until Spring
Garrettsville - At the November 13th village council meeting, Mayor Rick Patrick introduced Nelson Township Trustee Tom Matota. Matota addressed council about the issues over chip/seal to Brosius Road that the township and village share responsibility for. Matota explained his understanding of how ODOT divided up roads for maintenance. Matota also stated it appears that Nelson Township’s assigned responsibility...
Break Out The Ice Cream Cake…
Garrettsville — Break out the ice cream cake, another area business is celebrating a major anniversary. This November marks the 40th anniversary of Garrettsville’s Dairy Queen, and the 38th year of Roger and Connie Angel’s ownership of the franchise. At the November 6th meeting of the Garrettsville Area Chamber of Commerce, Roger presented a timeline of notable events in...
Community Cupboard Shutting the Door on Hunger from a New Location
Garrettsville - Neighbors helping neighbors. That’s the basic premise that inspired local volunteers to establish the Nelson-Garrettsville Community Cupboard (NGCC) more than three years ago, in a storage area behind Isaac Mills’ Bakery at Nelson Circle. Now the NGCC has outgrown its original home and has moved into a new locale with double the floor space at 8147 Center Street,...
Impressive Record for Soccer Team
Garrettsville - The 8th Count Dance sponsored U-12 Girl’s soccer team completed another terrific season and winning the year end tournament held in Waterloo; compiling a total record of 10-2-1. This years team was comprised of girls from Garrettsville and Mantua in grades 5th and 6th. The most notable facet of the season is how well the girls played...
Facet’s Holiday Open House
Garrettsville - Facet Salon and Day Spa will be hosting a holiday open house on November 15th from 2-7 pm. Bring a food donation to help us fill Santa’s sleigh and receive a $10 gift certificate for every grocery bag full of food you donate. Food drive proceeds will benefit the Nelson Garrettsville Community Cupboard. In addition, Facet will also be ...
Perme Financial Group Celebrates Silver Anniversary
Garrettsville - Chris Perme believes in the power of collaboration to achieve the best possible results for his clients. As a twenty-five year financial advisor, one of Perme’s greatest strengths is his ability to coordinate planning efforts and tactics with attorneys, CPAs and other advisors with whom a client is already likely engaged—helping ensure that all advisors are communicating...
A Campus of Excellence
Garrettsville - The James A. Garfield Schools recently submitted an application to the Ohio Department of Education to create a “Campus of Excellence” through a newly established Straight A Fund. The project would cost $5 million and be funded 100% by grant dollars that would never have to be paid back. The project is very extensive and includes moving...
Garfield Historical Society News
The James A. Garfield Historical Society met on Monday, October 21 in the historic Mott Building, Main St. , Garrettsville to pursue its usual business. This included : • Enthusiastic thanks to Damaris Peters Pike for the contribution resulting from her recent presentation (with Jack Warren) “The Garfields—An Ohio Presidential Couple” , with the sponsorship of Ohio Health Benefits, LLC •...
Can You See Excellence In Action?
Our students are amazing. Academically they perform at levels that exceed expectations. For example, our third grade math scores were third highest in Northeast Ohio (96.6%). Our high school students showed improvements in all five areas of the Ohio Graduation Test, and this is after they were already scoring above 90% in all areas! This excellence does not stop...
Did You Catch It? Bi-Annual Business Showcase a Success!
Did you catch the tunes by the Tuba Troubadours? They were the trio pumping out classy tunes in a lower register to keep up the festive mood at the Garrettsville Chamber of Commerce 11th Biennial Business showcase, held in the James A. Garfield High School gymnasium on Thursday, October 16. Senior Mike Ebie, band director Theo Cebulla and senior Dan...
‘Walkable Neighborhood’ comes to Garrettsville
Garrettsville - Are you wondering what is a ‘walkable neighborhood’? If you Google the term, it is broadly defined as a community that is a desirable place to live, work, learn, worship and play. It fosters smart growth because goods (such as housing, offices, and retail) and services (such as transportation, schools, libraries) are located within an easy and...
Think Local: News & Events from the Garrettsville Area Chamber of Commerce
Bruce Abraham, and his team at Charles Auto Family recently celebrated the Grand Re-Opening of the newly remodeled Charles Chevrolet. Hundreds of local residents, and customers -- past and present -- were on hand for a day filled with great food, family activities, and entertainment by K-105. Attendees also had the opportunity to enter drawings for a ton of...
New Owners Take the Wheel at Kehoe Used Cars
Garrettsville - Jerry Kehoe Used Cars has stood in the heart of Garrettsville at the intersection of Main Street, North Street, Center Street, Windham Street and South Street for the past 34 years. But the car dealership’s namesake quietly prepared for retirement by selling the business to Eric Hedge last February. Now Hedge and his wife, Meredith, want the...
Library Spotlight On: NextReads
Portage County District Library is pleased to spotlight NextReads, a free email newsletter service that provides suggested reading on various topics. Portage County District Library cardholders with an email address can subscribe to any of the 20 different subject and genre newsletters. Newsletter topics range from Biography and Memoir to Fantasy, and are sent on a monthly or every other...
“Bash and the Pirate Pig” Appearing at Village Bookstore
Burton Cole, Nelson Township resident and author has released his first novel nationwide for middle grades readers, Bash and the Pirate Pig. The age range is for readers ages 8 to 14. “But we’ve run tests on adult readers and judging by their laughter, we conclude that I managed to not write it over their heads. They think it’s about...
“Women of Note” Fundraiser — Five Shows by One Talented Woman.
“Women of Note”, aka Famed Dames, will be here in no time and you don’t want to miss making their acquaintance. Your introduction will come in the person of Damaris Peters Pike, Professor of Music Emerita of Hiram College, musician, historian, communicator par excellence who will be presenting a 25th Anniversary Benefit Series in support of local causes—education, historical...
State of the Village Report
Village Residents, It has been a little over a year since Mayor Craig Moser passed away unexpectedly and that I had the responsibility to step in and take over the reins of a wonderful and well respected Mayor. I admit that at first I was frightened to be taking over such a huge responsibility of being your Mayor. I realized...
Garrettsville Hardware to be Purchased by E&H Hardware Neighborhood retailer to join Ace Hardware team of stores
Wooster – Family owned E & H Hardware, part of a team of more than 4,700 locally-owned and independently operated Ace stores across the globe, is in the process of purchasing the Garrettsville Hardware located at 8009 State Street, Garrettsville, Ohio. Garrettsville Hardware, a Do It Best store, will be converted to an Ace Hardware in the very near...
Second Style Boutique Opens in Garrettsville
Second Style resale boutique held their grand opening on Saturday, September 7th in downtown Garrettsville. Located at 8089 Main Street (the former Denette's Designs), Second Style is packed with a range of new and gently used clothing items, accessories, children's gear and toy. Hours of operation for Second Style are 10am–6pm Tuesdays through Fridays, and 10am–5pm on Saturdays. Second Style is...
Scout Completes Eagle Project for Community Ambulance
Garrettsville - Kyle Angermeier from Boys Scout Troop 4062 in Garrettsville recently completed his Eagle Scout Project for Community Ambulance. The idea was formed two years ago, when, Community Ambulance’s Chief Chris Sanchez presented the need for a new sign to the troop, and Kyle decided that he wanted to do this for his Eagle Scout Project. An Eagle...
Spotlight On: Book Box Program
Garrettsville - Portage County District Library would like to help educators prepare for the upcoming school year by placing its September service spotlight on its Book Box program. Book Boxes are ideal for classroom teachers or other educators who need multiple copies of the same title. Each Book Box contains 30 books of a title and most contain a...
The 900 Coalition Presented “Tools of the Trades”
Garrettsville - Last Saturday, the 900 Coalition presented their second Tools of the Trades. The event was held in the side parking lot of Sky Plaza IGA. It offered many vehicles and large equipment used everyday in various trades. The Tools of the Trades gave one a chance to get an up close view of the vehicles and some...
JAG Maintains High Score with New State Grading System
Garrettsville - School districts throughout Ohio finally learned their scores for 2012-2013 according to the new state report cards last week. James A. Garfield School District -- which has achieved Excellent with Distinction for two of the past three years -- maintained high scores for 2012/13 by earning an overall A grade in Progress from the state. JAG Superintendent Ted...
Making Sense of the Affordable Care Act
Small Businesspersons, is your head swimming with all of the details and requirements of the Affordable Care Act which is heading for us all like a locomotive on an express line? Are you and your accountant scratching your heads over what it all means? Are you wanting to do your best by your employees and not lose your shirt? ...
Facet Salon Hosts Open House
Garrettsville–On Tuesday, August 6th Rachelle King and the staff of Facet Salon and Day Spa played host to over 100 area residents and business owners during their business open house. Attendees were treated to a tour of the entire TLC facility, comprised of vision, wellness, and fitness centers in addition to the Rachelle’s salon. After their tour, attendees had the...
Fireman’s Association Dedicates Building
Garrettsville–Following a brief history of the Garrettsville Freedom Nelson Joint Fire District, and the Fire Station, representatives of the district Fireman’s Association held a dedication ceremony Saturday evening during the 2013 Peach Social & Car Cruise. The new outbuilding located between the fire station, and Community EMS houses an assortment of antique fire equipment and memorabilia. The structure was...
Candlelight Winery Goes to the Dogs
Nelson Twp. - Often when we think of wineries we think of a nice glass of wine, a plate of cheese and crackers, and some relaxing music; we usually do not add dogs to the mix, however, this past Saturday was Pug Day at the winery which brought out pugs and all sorts of other breeds as well. Pugs...
JAGS are 2013 OGSO Class C Champions
Garrettsville - The Garrettsville JAGS won their third OGSO state title over the July 27th weekend in Champion. They defeated South Amherst Firelands (10-0), Amherst Vipers (6-0) and Mogadore Wildcats (10-1). The JAGS finish off a stellar OGSO run where their record is 89-3 since 2009.
SkyLane’s Coach Is Ohio Youth Bowling Coach of the Year
Garrettsville - SkyLane Bowling Alley is proud to announce that youth bowling coach Carl(Rick) Ewell has been named the Ohio Youth Bowling Coach of the Year by the Ohio State USBC Youth Association. Rick is pictured here with one of his prize students Lauren Sanchez of Garrettsville. Lauren recently competed in the Regional Tournament in Kentucky (28th place) and the...
