4-H All Stars
The 4-H All Stars have elected their officers; Joey Fresch, President; Danielle Popek, Vice President; Stephanie Popek, Secretary; Erin Fresch, Recreation; Jonathan Wiczen, Health and Safety; Rebecca Potter, Reporter. April 12th will be our next meeting. This will be our business meeting. We will also be making Easter candy to hand out to local Senior Citizens. The small animal...
Town Trotter News
Garrettsville - On Sunday, March 2nd the Garrettsville Town Trotters went to the office of Dann Timmons and Amy Turos on Main Street in Garrettsville and painted the front window. The theme of the window was "Follow the Hoof Prints to 4-H". This year marks the 100th anniversary for Extension (of which 4-H is a part of) in the...
Close Quarter Defense – Using non-lethal methods to augment your CCW skills
Kent - The group REALIZE Firearms Awareness Coalition is hosting a FREE educational seminar event on Tuesday April 8th at the Ravenna Maplewood Career Center, 7075 Ohio 88, Ravenna Ohio. Close Quarter Defense – using non-lethal methods to augment your CCW skills, Otherwise known as “The way you fight BEFORE you have to use your gun’ is April’s free program...
Save-the-Date for the 28th Annual Sugar Bush Golf Classic
Tee up for the 28th annual Sugar Bush Golf Classic on Wednesday, May 21, at the Sugar Bush Golf Club in Garrettsville, Ohio. Sponsored by the Middlefield Banking Company and Cleveland Indians Charities, the golf classic supports children and adults with developmental disabilities at Hattie Larlham. Celebrity golfers Bill Wills, co-host of WTAM 1100’s Wills & Snyder, and Bob DiBiasio,...
READ Posters at the Portage County District Library
Garrettsville - The Portage County District Library joins libraries in schools, campuses and communities nationwide in celebrating National Library Week (April 14-April 19), a time to highlight the value of libraries, librarians and library workers. Libraries today are more than repositories for books and other resources. Often the heart of their communities, campuses or schools, libraries are deeply committed to...
Great Clips of Aurora and Twinsburg to Assist Garrettsville Food Bank
Now through April 30, Great Clips of Aurora and Great Clips of Twinsburg are collecting non-perishable food items to assist the Nelson Garrettsville Community Cupboard. The food pantry serves 80-100 families per month and lost their entire stock in the recent fire that devastated downtown Garrettsville. Great Clips of Aurora and Twinsburg invites people to make a donation of a...
“Marching Pride” Takes Disney by Storm
After nine months of planning and raising funds, the James A Garfield Marching Pride saw their vision come to fruition last week as they took Disney by storm. On Saturday March 22, 2014 they began loading the buses with 73 instruments 73 marching band uniforms, 73 shakos, pairs of shoes, gloves spats, seven flag line flags, Marching Pride banner,...
Garrettsville is Open For Business
Holy Schmoley! Flames leaping up from the north side of the downtown commercial district. Customers clutching purchases being hustled past the cash registers by some of G-Ville’s finest who’d just received word that “Town’s on fire!” Proprietors hoping against hope to save their goods and their livelihoods…in vain all too often. Neighboring fire fighters rendering “mutual assistance” in as...
#GARRETTSVILLESTRONG Fundraiser Spotlight
This weeks upcoming fundraisers geared towards rebuilding downtown Garrettsville. Candlelight Winery - Fundraising Event April 4th - Friday from 6:30 - 8:30pm. Representatives from 31 Gifts, Magnabilities, Mary Kay, Miche, Perfectly Posh, Premier Jewelry and Velata will be set up at the winery for an Evening of Shopping and Reminiscing. We will have raffle prizes, food specials and more! Anyone bringing in...
Save the Date!!! Annual Spring Drive-it-Yourself Tour May 3rd!
Geauga County Tourism’s Annual Spring Drive-it-Yourself Tour will be Saturday, May 3rd, with 25 stops to choose from. Each stop offers special activities, demonstrations, sales, treats or drawings to tour participants. This year’s tour features 14 locations that are brand new to the Tour, so choose a minimum of 10 locations you have never visited, or your favorites for...
Literary Music Club News
On March 12th LMC held their monthly meeting, even if it was the worst day snow-wise. There were 6 of us attending. Alma Jones and Mary Leggett decorated for St. Patrick’s day. It was very cheerful and took our minds off the bad weather. Our program was presented by Iva Walker. Birthdays for members in March are Sally Kittle,...
Community Rallies In Support
Garrettsville - Hundreds of residents from the Garrettsville area and neighboring communities filled the home-side bleachers in the James A. Garfield gymnasium Monday evening in a unified show of support for those affected by Saturday’s devastating fire. The one question they all were asking: “What can we do to help?” Local resident and former Portage County Commissioner Tommie Jo...
School Construction Project Update
The Campus of Excellence Oversight Committee met on March 20, 2014 in the James A. Garfield Middle School to receive information and updates on the momentous project under way in the district, moving the Intermediate School to the main campus, thus gathering all the parts of the system—Elementary, Intermediate, Middle and High School, as well as the Orson E....
Hiram College Head Swim Coach Jack Groselle Sets Another World Record in U.S. Masters Swimming
Hiram - Hiram College head swimming and diving coach Jack Groselle added to his already impressive list of records by setting his second World Record of the year as part of U.S. Masters Swimming recently at the Milford Meltdown hosted by the Milford Athletic Club in Milford, Mich. on March 16. Groselle competed in four short course events and posted...
CMS Shares A Surprise
Mantua - At a school-wide assembly last Friday afternoon, staff and students at the Crestwood Middle School in Mantua gathered to learn the results of the school’s Kindness Challenge. The event, sponsored by CMS’s Rachel’s Challenge student organization, encouraged both CMS and Crestwood Intermediate students to document random acts of kindness to each other by noting them on slips...
#GarrettsvilleStrong
Garrettsville - On behalf of the Garrettsville Area Chamber of Commerce members, we are all incredibly proud of the tenacity and resilience of our community. An enormous THANK YOU to ALL of the emergency personnel who responded to this past weekend’s fire. The outpouring support from local residents, and the surrounding area has been incredible. In the wake of the devastating...
J.A. Garfield Historical Society News
Garrettsville - The March 17 meeting of the James A. Garfield Historical Society was preceded by an open house coinciding with the St. Patrick’s Day festivities in Garrettsville and a number of visitors were welcomed to view the collections in the historic Mott Building. The assembled members read through and discussed the proposed changes to the group’s constitution, principally to...
Nelson Township Trustee News
Nelson Twp – Officials present at the March 19th, 2014 trustee meeting were fiscal officer J. David Finney and township trustees Joe Leonard, Mike Elias, and Tom Matota. Also present were, Roads Supervisor Chuck Vanek, Zoning Inspector Anna Mae VanDerHoeven, and Community House Caretaker Michelle Cmunt. Finney made copies of the NOPEC annual Report available on a first-come first-serve basis. As...
Council Approves Use of Lot for Community Garden
Windham - Windham Village Council held their monthly meeting a week ahead of the original scheduled meeting to accommodate council members’ schedules. The meeting was called to order and the minutes, expenditures, bank reconciliation and safety report were presented and approved. Guest Charity Showalter addressed council about use of village property for the community garden. The parcel she is seeking...
14th Annual Patchwork Benefit for DDC Clinic ~ Center for Special Needs Children
Middlefield – The 14th Annual Patchwork Benefit will be held at Federated Church Family Life Center located in Bainbridge Township, Ohio on April 12, 2014. Upon arrival, party guests will enjoy hors d’oeuvres, stroll through items up for sale in the live auction, bid on unique silent auction items and purchase tickets for the Chinese raffle items. The Annual Patchwork...
UP IN FLAMES: Historic Fire Devastates Garrettsville’s Historic District
“Garrettsville is burning!” On Saturday, March 22, 2014, that message blazed out across phone lines, the internet and news agencies throughout northeast Ohio. Main Street’s newly-renovated historic Buckeye Block Building was on fire at lunchtime. Despite prompt and robust response by local and regional firefighters, the angry fire had devoured the storefronts from Center Street to High Street by dinnertime...
Garrettsville Summerfest Announces Idol Auditions
Garrettsville - Can you sing? Do you like to be on stage performing before others? Are you available April 13th, May 18th and June 29, 2014? If your answer is yes to all of the above, you need to consider auditioning for this years Garrettsville Idol. Garrettsville Summerfest announces the audition dates for this year’s Garrettsville Idol, the grand...
Hiram Village News ~ March
Hiram - At the last meeting of the Hiram Village Council, Hiram Mayor Lou Bertrand acknowledged the Hiram Fire Department’s Save of the Year recipients. The team was honored for the successful resuscitation of a full cardiac arrest victim on Vaughn Road in February. On that snowy morning, the Fire Department received a call to assist a man, Mr....
Adventurous music lovers, here’s something right up your alley.
Hiram College’s Marcia Kenyon Bissell Opera Workshop will present the world premier of the opera Verlorene Heimat (Lost Homeland) on April 10 and 12, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. in the Renner Performing Arts Theater , 11762 Dean St. in Hiram. The opera, composed by Hiram College Associate Professor of Music Dawn Sonntag, chronicles the true story of an East...
J.A. Garfield Announces Winter All P.T.C. Athletes
Boys Basketball Anthony Workman – 1st Team Nick Jurcevic – 2nd Team Mason Butler – Honorable Mention Girls Basketball Grayson Rose – 1st Team Madisson Geddes – 2nd Team Lauren Jones – Honorable Mention Alicia Witte – Honorable Mention Boys Bowling Jaret Doraski – 1st Team Colin McGurer – 1st Team Zach Britton – 2nd Team Zack Hoffmann – 2nd Team Keddy Conway – Honorable Mention Ethan Hoffmann – Honorable Mention Girls Bowling Olivia Doraski –...
March 29 & 30: The Right Time to Bring Overdue Honor to a Vietnam Vet
Time may not heal all wounds, but perhaps it gives us the opportunity to right some wrongs. That’s what the nation has to offer Vietnam Veterans more than 50 years after they were swept into that conflict in January 1962. More than 3 million Americans served in the 11-year Vietnam War; 58,000 of them died in combat; thousands more suffered...
Twentieth Century Club News
The Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville completed its journey through the Dewey Decimal System, fittingly, at the Garrettsville branch of the Portage County District Library, with the 900’s, history and geography. Roll call was answered by enlightening the group as to what each would take on the way to a particular destination. Some were practical, some were fanciful, some...
Voters & Candidates Face2Face…a different kind of candidate forum on April 3 hosted by the League of Women Voters of Kent
Kent - Candidates for county, state and Congressional seats have been invited to meet and talk with voters in small groups at an election forum organized by the League of Women Voters of Kent on Thursday, April 3. Free and open to the public, the forum will start at 7 p.m. at Theodore Roosevelt High School, 1400 N. Mantua St.,...
All Hands on Deck!
Indeed they were! It was Payback Time. The James A. Garfield Local School Board held a hastily-called meeting on Monday, March 24 to respond to the catastrophic fire which struck the business district in downtown Garrettsville. Representatives of student groups, faculty and staff organizations, Nelson and Freedom Township trustees, volunteers with the Nelson-Garrettsville Community Cupboard, Mayor Rick Patrick, attorney...
