Crestwood Primary School Celebrates Socktober
Mantua - Prompted by an online call to action from Kid President, who has shared such timeless advice as “open your heart more than your mouth,” and “create something that will make the world awesome,” students at Crestwood Primary School decided to celebrate the month of October by collecting socks for those in need. And they sure collected a...
New & Improved Garrettsville Cinema Enjoys Box Office Boost
Garrettsville - Just like in the movies, a daring young man takes a big risk, putting his personal and professional assets at stake. Will the big gamble take him down or will he overcome every obstacle and eventually come out on top? Justin Dlugokecki is that young man. He took ownership of the defunct Garrettsville Cinema in Garfield Plaza and...
Portage County Provides Free Emergency Preparedness App
Portage County - While many digital apps are frivolous entertainment, this one can be a true life-saver. By downloading the free Portage County Emergency Management App, residents can prepare for and keep informed during emergencies, whether they be related to weather, crime, health, environmental hazards or road conditions. It is the first emergency management (EMA) app in northeast Ohio. The...
GCRTA December Luncheon
Geauga County - The Geauga County Retired Teachers Association is announcing their upcoming December meeting and luncheon. The event will be held on Tuesday December 1, 2015 at the Huntsburg Community Center located at 12406 Madison Rd (Rte 528) in Huntsburg, OH. Guests are asked to gather at 11:15 with the business meeting being held promptly at 11:30. The...
Portage Libraries Add Hoopla Digital Movies And Music
Portage County - Portage County District Library is excited to announce that hoopla digital has been added to its digital library. Library users with a valid Portage County District Library card are invited to enjoy free digital movies, music albums, eBooks, and audiobooks using this new digital service. All are available for mobile and online access through this partnership...
Local Artisans Help Mantua Thrive
Mantua - Carrie and Patrick Frost have been together since 2009. Carrie, an Aurora, Ohio native, met Patrick, who hails from the Chicago suburbs, at glass school. Since that time, they’ve collaborated on work while traveling the world, learning from masters in Italy, the Czech Republic and the US before finally setting up shop in Mantua in 2012. “We...
Introducing Attending Physician at Burton Health Care Center
Dr. Timothy Neely, D.O. and Susanne Bond, N.P. who practice family medicine at University Hospitals Garrettsville Family Practice are now accepting patients at Burton Health Care Center. Burton Health Care Center is a skilled nursing, rehabilitation and long-term care facility located just east of the Burton Circle. Dr. Neely, D.O. is highly qualified to treat the patients at Burton Health...
JA Garfield Historical Society News
The October 19, 2015 meeting of the James A. Garfield Historical Society, held at the Mott Building on Main Street, Garrettsville, covered a wide range of topics including : The warm reception of the organization’s display at the recent Chamber of Commerce Business Showcase and the coming presentation to be given at the Garrett House on November 7. The work of...
New Menu and Vision For Garrettsville’s Main Street Grille & Brewing Company
Garrettsville - On October 19th, the Main Street Grille & Brewing Company had a soft opening to introduce new Chef James St. Ours and launch his new menu and vision for the Garrettsville landmark restaurant. A part of the Cleveland/Akron culinary scene for twenty years, St. Ours comes to Garrettsville after working with the likes of esteemed chef Dante...
Windham Banners Declare Community Pride
Windham - Community pride is one of those things. It can sit latent, seemingly at rest until threatened. Then it rises up and takes action, inspiring everyone else to take part. Look around town. See the new banners fluttering in the breeze? Historical photographs and images emblazoned with the words, EDUCATION, FAMILY, TRADITION and PRIDE line up like sentinels along...
Preserving the Past and Looking Forward in Mantua Township
Mantua Twp. - In most ways Mantua Township is probably very much like the majority of other cities, townships and villages going into the upcoming election season. Which is to say that one party advocates this, the other party advocates that. Regardless of who wins one hopes that there is a positive outcome and life goes on preferably a...
This is How We Roll
Time to catch up – I am a week behind on reporting scores and I have to make sure we keep everyone up to date on all the bowling going on at Sky Lanes! On October 10, Jacob Britton tossed a 203 game and ended up with a nice 557 series, high for the day in the 11:00 Trio League. ...
Road Issues Rock Hiram Township
Hiram Township - At the last meeting of the Hiram Township Trustees, Trustee Kathy Schulda reported that the Ohio State Patrol has been stopping trucks on Township roads near the storage well on Allyn Road. When stopped, drivers were issued a warning to produce an applicable permit within a set time period. Failure to comply resulted in ticketing. Soon...
Garrettsville – Hiram Rotary Report
The October 19, 2015 meeting of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club was a series of short takes. Here’s what got tooken : For Friday, Bob Evans restaurants will be joining the Polio Plus campaign of worldwide Rotary International by contributing 15% of receipts collected from contributing diners to the fight to end polio sooner rather than later. The Garrettsville-Hiram club will...
Cardinal Credit Union Unveils New Branch at Hiram College
Hiram – Hiram College and Cardinal Credit Union marked the opening of a full-service credit union branch on campus through a grand opening celebration at the college’s Kennedy Center. State Rep. Dave Joyce, state Sen. John Eklund and Hiram Mayor Lou Bertrand joined Hiram College President, Lori Varlotta, Ph.D., Hiram College President Emeritus Tom Chema and Cardinal President and...
Garrettsville Village has good chance of ending year in the black
Garrettsville - Work items completed (or near completion) by the Village were reported at the October 14 village council meeting. Items included chip and sealing of Wheeler Road, crack sealing of several village streets and concrete work at the Boardwalk. Councilwoman Becky Harrington reported that the streetscape on Main, Center and High should be completed by the end of...
20th Century Club News
Women of the Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville met on October 15 at the home of Joyce Fashing on Eagle Creek Drive. The roll call response, as befits the season of Halloween, was to tell of a favorite costume or item of apparel. Resulting tales ranged from dressy occasions to Trick-or-Treat and beyond. New members Jane Hill and Gail Gergely were...
News From Garrettsville’s Mayor
Garrettsville - As we enter the fall/winter season I would to like reflect back on the spring/summer. A big thank you to the Silver Creek Garden Club & our Street Department for the beautiful hanging flower baskets and plantings around the Village. I received many compliments, most stating that these were the best that they had ever seen. They...
Crestwood Soccer Teams Go4theGoal
Mantua - Did you know that cancer is the leading cause of death of children by disease? In spite of this startling statistic, you might be surprised to learn that less than four percent of federal funding is dedicated to pediatric cancer research. That’s why Crestwood’s boys and girls soccer teams made it their goal to raise awareness and...
Another year, another Business Showcase in Garrettsville
Garrettsville - And a fine display it was, of all sorts of things, including—this being an event that takes place before Election Day on November 3—various individuals running for various offices, people on the ballot, people hoping to be written in, supporters of ballot issues for townships, county services to the developmentally disabled, long-deserved support for the county district...
Third Annual Friends4Friends™ Campaign Film Festival Featured Film Created by James A. Garfield High School Students
Garrettsville - A team of students from the James A. Garfield High School Peer Leadership Council submitted a short film featured at the third annual, regional Friends4Friends™ Campaign film festival, held on September 29, 2015, at Austintown Fitch High School in Austintown. The James A. Garfield High School short film, titled Posts that Paralyze, inspires students to Stand Up and...
This Is How We Roll: Week of October 9, 2015
Niles Wicks shot the high game for the 11:00 Trio with a nice 204 game; Niles also had a 500 series. High series for the day belonged to David Martin with 519; David’s high game was 185. Other good games were rolled by Billy Potteiger, 172, Ericq Williams, 156, Gavin Bervish, 149, Ian Huebner, 138, Billy Radcliffe, 138, and...
Ravenna Business Plans to Hire 30 Professional CAREGivers
Ravenna - As America’s aging population grows, a local senior care company is gearing up to meet the expected need for services. The Home Instead Senior Care® office serving Portage County anticipates adding up to 30 professional CAREGiversSM to its staff by the end of 2015. By 2050, it is predicted that the senior population will more than double from...
Indians Outfielder Michael Brantley Visits CMS
Mantua - The gymnasium at the Crestwood Middle School reverberated with excitement last week, as Cleveland Indians outfielder Michael Brantley entered. Timmy and Jacob, two of the over 400 students filling the bleachers, sat in a prime spot in the first row as they waited for Brantley’s arrival. In their Indians garb, the two sixth-graders clutched baseball cards and...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Recap
T’was business as usual at the October 4 2015 meeting of the Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram. Action on and discussion of the following were on the agenda : Kyle Collins is alive and doing well as a Rotary Exchange Student in Japan. He’s noticing differences in social interactions as well as improving his Japanese language skills. Happy to talk...
Fall Savings Sidewalk Sale in Middlefield
Middlefield - Join us for our 2nd annual, FALL SAVINGS SIDEWALK SALE. Visit us on, October 8th, 9th & 10th 2015 from 10am-5pm in the local historic town of Middlefield. With small town charm & homespun arts & crafts you can uncover fascinating one-of-a kind treasures & gifts! What makes this special is the great savings we will be offering...
“Horsing around” with the 20th Century Club
The ladies of the Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville spent their meeting of October 1, 2015 “horsing around”. The subject of the evening’s roll call was experiences with horses and the tales sometime rivaled “The Perils of Pauline.” Business was conducted by President Mary Furillo and the group voted in a new member, Pat Fisher. Dues were collected. The program...
Geauga Growth Partnership Presents Entrepreneur Success Breakfast
Tricia Kaman was an art student and worked in 1965 as a portrait artist during the summer at Cedar Point in Sandusky Ohio. In 1971 she started her own portrait stand at Geauga Lake Park, and since that time has grown a business that has locations in over thirty major theme and amusement parks throughout the United States and...
J.A. Garfield Historical Society News
Garrettsville - The September 21, 2015 meeting of the James A. Garfield Historical Society saw an influx of visitors from Freedom, seeking information on organizing and operating a historical society, with an eye to possibly establishing such a group for Freedom Township, either as a separate entity or as a semi-autonomous affiliate. This inquiry originated with the Freedom Room...
Arts & Culture Shine at Hiram College
Hiram - As fall semester began, Hiram College celebrated enhancements to the Warren Sherman Hayden Memorial Auditorium at Bates Hall. Renovations to the 80-year-old venue included new seating for 511, including wheelchair-accessible seating, a new thrust stage and extensive roof repairs and new gutters on Bates Hall. Ohio Senator John Eklund, a key supporter of the project, attended the...
