Road Rally Scavenger Hunt to Raise money for New Homeless Shelter
Ravenna - The Haven of Portage County is planning their 1st annual Road Rally Scavenger Hunt. This event will take place on Saturday, February 23rd from 11:00am – 4:00pm, rain, snow or shine. Event will begin at the Portage Community Chapel promptly at 11:00am. The theme “Oh the places you’ll go, the things you will see”, a great family fun...
Hiram College Named a Stop on The Ohio Presidential Trail
Hiram - Just in time for President’s Day, TourismOhio, in partnership with the Ohio History Connection, today launched the Ohio Presidential Trail on Trails.Ohio.org. The 13-stop trail invites travelers to find history here in Ohio by highlighting homes, libraries, museums and monuments that tell the life stories of eight U.S. presidents elected from Ohio. “Given the enthusiasm around Ohio Adventure...
Vision And Values Drive JAG Students And Staff
James A. Garfield Graduates are going places! They attend college, join the workforce or enlist to serve our country. Garfield Schools have a clear vision of what we want to achieve for our kids: BEGINNING WITH THE CLASS OF 2022, 90% OF GARFIELD GRADUATES WILL PARTICIPATE IN HIGHER EDUCATION OR CAREER TRAINING, AND BY 2026, 70% OF OUR GRADUATES WILL...
An Evening of Broadway’s Best
Aurora - Aurora Community Theatre presents BREAKING GROUND: Musicals that Made an Impact! for four performances only at 8 pm Fridays and Saturdays March 1—9, at the theatre, 115 E. Pioneer Trail. The two-act revue will feature solos, duets and group numbers from Broadway shows that influenced the history of musical theatre. The ensemble cast will feature 16 talented performers,...
Successful SweetheArt Auction in Mantua
Mantua - Last Saturday, folks joined their neighbors at the third annual art auction to help raise funds for a community center at the Mantua Center School. The afternoon event included music, art, comfort food, lots of cookies, and the opportunity for neighbors to banish their cabin fever for a few hours. The auctioneer, Rick Painley, encouraged bids on...
Windham Trustees Approve Thumb Attachment for Bobcat
Windham Twp. - Windham Township Trustees met recently for their regularly scheduled meeting. They opened the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance before moving on to the usual housekeeping items. The trustees approved the minutes, the expenditures and the appropriations for 2019. The next item on the agenda was to approve the movement of money from the money market account...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary News
The Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram met on February 11, 2019 in Cal’s II, Sky Plaza, Garrettsville to be presented with the following topics of discussion: Official Rotary thank you cards are now in and available for acknowledging supporters. Clearer minutes of official business are needed for dealing with bank transactions; signers for checks will be made clearer. There will be...
Shalersville Historical Society Open House
Looking to celebrate President’s Day locally? Shalersville Historical Society is coming to the rescue with an Open House featuring a “Presidential Display”. The open house will be held Saturday Feb 16, Sunday February 17, & Monday February 18 from 2 – 5 PM each day. The open house provides an opportunity to tour the house & view all the...
Pot O’ Gold 5K Poker Run/Walk
Ravenna - Ravenna Parks and Recreation will be holding their annual Pot O’ Gold 5K Poker Run. All proceeds from this event go into the city’s Marlene Watt Scholarship which provides funds to area children who would like to participate in camps, programs and sports and need financial assistants. This family friendly event kicks off on March 16 at 9am...
Bowling for Those In Need: The Bill White Legacy
Hard work, patriotism, and trust in those he employed are just some of the values Bill White holds dear. As a local entrepreneur and bowling champion, White has worked in and owned many of the bowling alleys of Portage County over the years. Including Twin Star of Kent (now known as Spins Bowl) and SkyLane in Garrettsville. White will...
Garfield All Sports Boosters News
Garrettsville - Many people have seen the many new improvements to the Athletic Facilities at James A. Garfield, most of which have been funded by the JAG All Sports Booster Club at no extra expense to the district. A few of the purchases the boosters have made in the past six years include: new sport recognition banners in the...
SweetheArt & Dessert Auction This Saturday
Mantua - Roughly 15 years ago, the Mantua Center School was purchased by Mantua Township from the Crestwood School District when the District consolidated elementary students on one larger campus. Prompted by the possibility of the building’s alternative use as a gathering space, as well as historical significance and sentimental for the structure, township trustees, with residents’ approval, purchased...
All Around Children Earns Award
Congratulations to All Around Children in Parkman for receiving a 4 Star Award with Step Up To Quality. Staff worked very hard to achieve this award. All Around Children Learning Center offers unique, expertly-designed early childhood education programs for infants as young as six weeks, toddlers, preschoolers and school agers up to 12 years old. They provide ample opportunities for...
Register Today For The 2019 Saturday Gardening Series
Join Summit County Master Gardeners at Todaro’s Party Center, 1820 Akron Peninsula Rd, Akron, OH 44313, for two full days of informative gardening presentations (four speakers each session), silent auction, raffle baskets, book sales, bulb sales, and more. Doors open at 8 am with sessions going until 2:30 pm. This year’s Saturday Gardening Series will be held on Saturday, March...
‘Tis The Season To Anticipate Sweet Maple Treats
February always brings a longing for maple sugaring in Geauga County, and with it, the anticipation of all of this special season’s naturally sweet rewards. To whet your appetite, please join Geauga Park District for Sweet Maple: How to Make Maple Confections on Saturday, February 23, 1 to 2:30 p.m. at The West Woods Nature Center. Two local maple producers –...
Erin L. Meffan, O.D. to join Drs. Moats and Martin in their Ravenna Practice
Ravenna - Dr. Aaron Moats and Dr. Daniel Martin welcome Dr. Erin Meffan to join their practice and announce that she is currently accepting new patients. Dr. Meffan is a 2009 graduate of Lake High School and a 2013 graduate of Kent State University Honors College with a Bachelor of Science, (Pre-medicine). Erin went on to earn her Doctor of...
Rotary 4-Way Speech Contest is fast-approaching
Members of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club met at noon on Monday, February 2019 in Cal’s II, Sky Plaza, Garrettsville for the following business. Henceforth the duties of treasurer will be undertaken by a troika consisting of Debra Blake, Amy Crawford and Lisa Muldowny, with two signatures required on checks. Delores McCumbers needs information for reporting on the November Reverse Raffle...
Hiram College Students Provide Free Tax Filing Assistance
Hiram College Tax Volunteers are partnering with the Ohio Association of Foodbanks to offer free tax filing assistance through the Ohio Benefit Bank (OBB) to qualifying residents in Ohio. Student counselors who serve as Hiram College Tax Volunteers are trained and exam certified in income tax preparation by the OBB. They work under the close supervision of a faculty member...
Area Realtors Recognized At Ceremony
On Saturday, January 26th the Portage County Association of Realtors recognized realtors from MB Realty at their awards ceremony. “Rookie of the Year” honors were bestowed on Lauren Patrick. In addition, Patrick and Delores McCumbers were honored as Million Dollar Producers, Crist Miller received recognition for being a 2.5 Million Dollar Producer and Mark Brady was honored as Past...
Operation Valentine
Garfield Middle School students Robert Torres, Riley Swigonski, Lauren Whan and Haley Ihrig show off a few of the cards that were made in their class. The students in Mrs. Gilmer’s classes created handmade Valentine cards with sentiments of thanks to our troops through Operation Valentine; 150+ cards from our students were delivered to the local sponsor, Mallory- Dehaven...
Take A Hike in Hiram!
Hiram - Hiram College’s James H. Barrow Biological Field Station is a living, learning, and research lab, but it’s more that just a resource for college students. When the buildings are open, visitors have the opportunity to view wildlife including snakes, turtles, and frogs -- all of which are cared for by college students and staff. During the spring...
Freedom Township Historical Society News
Freedom Twp. - Freedom Township Historical Society is always looking for old pictures of Freedom homes, families, businesses and old schools, especially our one-room schools # 2 (the one we’re restoring on Rt 303) and # 8 (on Rt 88 where Hewins Rd ends). Please DO NOT THROW THOSE AWAY! Call Judy at 330.527.7669 & I’ll be happy to...
Crestwood School Board News
Mantua - At the last Crestwood School Board meeting, Superintendent David Toth discussed the results of the most recent survey. The survey was created through the superintendent’s office, and was posted on the district’s website for the community to fill out; in addition, according to Toth, the survey was also available to potential respondents at school events, local churches,...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Report
The Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram was pleased to have Jon Harris, new director of the Portage County District Library as their speaker on January 28, 2019. He has recently assumed the leadership position after being in children’s services in the PCDL Aurora branch (The district also has branches in Garrettsville, Windham, Streetsboro and Randolph.).He offered the information that, of...
David Belknap Sworn in to Mantua-Shalersville Fire District
Mantua - At the last Mantua-Shalersville Fire District meeting, the board witnessed the swearing in of full-time firefighter David Belknap. Belknap, a Windham resident, is a 2012 graduate of Windham High School. He worked for three years as a part-time firefighter prior to earning the full-time position. In other news, Chief Roosa shared the results of the department’s 2018 Incident...
Holy Dexterity Challenge, Batman! Garfield Hosts Cubing Competition
Well, the 2019 Garrettsville G-Men Classic is now history, but what an event. At least ninety-one participants were registered and the space at the James A. Garfield Elementary School was teeming with “cubers” and their fans. Oh, yes, there were fans; cheering broke out at some particularly outstanding moves or rapid completions. Competition was overseen by representatives of the World...
Art Exhibition at Hiram College to feature Greg Martin
Hiram - Hiram College will unveil “Archaic_1851.2003.2019,” an exhibition featuring the work of Greg Martin on February 1 in the College’s Gelbke Fine Arts Gallery, 12000 Winrock Road in Hiram. The exhibition opens with a 5-7 p.m. reception and Martin will speak about his work at 6 p.m. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Martin is an artist and designer known...
First Annual Winter Writing Festival set for February 23
Ravenna - Do you love to write? Interested in working with other writers or learning more about writing in all its forms? Main Street Ravenna is hosting the first annual “Winter Writing Festival” on Saturday, February 23, 2019 from 11a.m. to 4p.m.in collaboration with the Northeast Ohio Writing Centers Association (NEOWCA) Annual Conference being held at Ravenna High School...
A Sweet-heART of A Day in Mantua
Mantua - This year the Sweet-heART Auction and Cookie Walk has something new: fifteen specialty desserts. Ten of them would look right at home on the cover of a food magazine. The other five are by well-known local cooks whose creations people line up for: Nora Brant’s legendary apple dumplings and Leone Krohn’s lemon meringue pie, just for two....
CHS Musicians Perform at KSU
This blustery weekend, young musicians from several area high schools were invited to participate in the 2019 Kent State All-Star Band. In spite of the inhospitable weather, eight CHS students and their families braved the elements to take advantage of this prestigious honor. This honor band opportunity brought over 175 high school students to Kent State’s main campus for a...
