Youth Bowling News
I apologize for no bowling article last week; I was bowling in the Ohio Women’s Intercity Tournament last weekend in Sandusky. We had a great time (and I bowled fairly well). So this time I have two weeks of scores to report. This week’s high series was rolled by Kim Wampler. Kim had 210 her first game and a 538...
Get Your Golden Ticket to Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Garrettsville - It’s gonna be sweet! ...Not just the edible set of candy confections, but the entire production of “Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory”, the spring musical taking the James A. Garfield High School stage April 7-10. Come and see how Violet Beauregarde morphs into the Blueberry Girl, how snotty Veruca Salt can be, how the Oompa-Loompas make...
Mantua-Shalersville Area Chamber Minutes
Mantua - The Mantua-Shalersville Area Chamber of Commerce met on February 16, 2011. The featured business was GoRilla Productions of Mantua. Owner Brent Simon offers custom web design, web maintenance, website tune-ups, and multimedia production. He offers quality services at prices that are affordable. Crestwood School District is happy to announce that this year the 8th graders will be taking...
Nelson Continues To Look At Ways To Cut Expenses
Nelson Twp. - Nelson Township Trustees met for their regularly scheduled meeting with about ten residents in attendance. Fiscal officer Mr. Finney presented bills and wages to the trustees; after reviewing them they approved the affidavits. The trustees noted that the windows at the community house were installed and the doors should be in by the end of March. Mr....
Winter Thaw Re-Opens Garrettsville Bridge
Garrettsville - The break in winter weather we experienced last week was just what ODOT needed to take the wraps off the State Route 82 Bridge and re-open it to vehicle traffic... nine months after the old bridge was closed for demolition and reconstruction. The new, rolled steel frame bridge spanning Eagle Creek at Windham and Main Streets (SR 82)...
Vox Voronet To Appear In Concert
Garrettsville - True artists are said to look at the world differently. They tap into that side of themselves that allows them to find beauty and melody in things that other people just see as objects. Vox Voronet is a band made up of four musical artists who derived their band’s name from a color of blue seen in...
Psst! Psst!
You’ve still got time to get to some Family Week activities sponsored by the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club. Friday, February 25 is Friday Night Out. Take your whole troop to one or more of the local activities-bowling skating, dining, etc.--featured in the Villager pages. Make an evening of it. Connect. Enjoy. Saturday, February 26 is the Family Fun Festival at the James...
Poet McClanahan To Appear At Hiram College
Hiram - Hiram College’s Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature invites you to attend a convocation with poet and essayist Rebecca McClanahan on March 1, 2011 at 7 p.m. in the Pritchard Room of Hiram College Library. Rebecca McClanahan has published nine books, most recently Deep Light: New and Selected Poems and a suite of memoir-based essays, The Riddle Song...
Crestwood High School Hosts 8th Grade Information Night
Mantua - About 400 parents, teachers, current and incoming high school students attended Crestwood High School’s first ever 8th Grade Information night, Feb. 15 at Crestwood High School. Forty-five different high school groups participated in the event, ranging from academics to extra-curricular and co-curricular subjects. Many of the tables that the high school students created for the student showcase...
Notes From The Vineyard
Valentine’s Day has come and gone and while we celebrated with wine we still have some special bottles to open. Thankfully, there is still one more holiday in February that will force us to open our special bottles. I am really looking forward to my favorite holiday this month...Open That Bottle Night (OTBN). The concept behind OTBN is exactly why...
Windham Library Opens at RFC
Windham - The wait is finally over for the patrons of the Windham branch of the Portage County District Library. Last Thursday, the library opened to débuted its new facility after being closed for about a month. The library is now located at 9005 Wil-Vern Drive inside the Renaissance Family Center (RFC). The hours to the library have changed...
Hiram Village Council Meeting
Hiram – All council members were present during the February 8th council meeting except Councilperson Donley. At 7 pm, Mayor Bertrand called the meeting to order. After a moment of silence and the Pledge of Allegiance, the Mayor asked for approval of the 1/25/11 Special Council Meeting minutes and the motion was passed as were the minutes from the...
A Message To Our Readers
The Weekly Villager has prided itself on covering local area news for over 30 years. Our readers look to our paper to provide stories that have meaning to each community. We also pride ourselves on being a family-friendly newspaper. Our reporters cover meetings and events, many of which can be controversial. We do our best to report the facts. Our...
Rotary Family Week Promises to Warm Up Winter
Garrettsville - Just when it appears that there will be no end to stagnating winter doldrums, Family Week breaks up the monotony with live entertainment, contests, dinners out, a health fair and carnival of fun. Sponsored by the Garrettsville-Hiram chapter of the Rotary Club, this annual weeklong celebration to empower the family runs from Sunday, February 20 – Saturday,...
Boot Camp Begins
So did you make it down to the Community EMS Boot Camp last Saturday? Why not? You still have time to join in the effort to shaping up our community. Joining doesn’t mean you have to lose weight, maybe you would like to simply tone up or get into shape for the upcoming summer. The point is that you...
Village Council News
Garrettsville – Village Council opened their monthly meeting on Wednesday, February 10th with Mayor Moser recognizing Council President Rick Patrick’s half-century birthday; they then got down to business. The mayor, five council members, the village solicitor & clerk-treasurer were all in attendance (councilwoman Karen Clyde was absent). The minutes of February’s meeting were approved with one minor correction to...
JAG Freshman Named Athlete of the Week on WEWS
Garrettsville - Brian Gorby is a proud father. And he has every right to be. His son, Travis, has been selected as McDonald’s Student Athlete of the Week, representing the Greater Cleveland/Northeast Ohio area. A television news crew from WEWS Channel 5 traveled to the Garrettsville G-Plex sports complex on Tuesday night to video and interview the freshman soccer...
Freedom Township Trustee News
Freedom Twp. - Highlights of the February 3, 2011 Trustee meeting were: Mr. Tom Mesaros was appointed to the Zoning Commission for a one-year term. Zoning Inspector Derthick reported one permit issued for a new single family home. A resident on St. Rt. 700 has not responded about removing an unlicensed vehicle from his property. Trustees approved turning the problem over...
Neighboring Schools Rival for a Cause
Rivalries have been around for years and many times the rivalries brings out the not so good in people. Folks get so caught up in the rivalry they have a tendency to be more negative than positive, but that has been changed recently with the Garrettsville–Windham Rivalry. Last fall when Mike Chaffee took over as the principal of Windham Schools,...
In The Business of Hope
Portage County - At the January meeting of the Portage County Suicide Prevention Coalition, one of our members said, “We are in the business of hope.” The comment came after the Portage County Coroner’s report that showed 2010 as the highest year on record for completed suicides since 1980 when the office started organizing the information. The Coalition was established in...
Windham Welcomes Monica’s Café
Windham - Monica’s Café is slated to open early February 2011 in the old T&J’s Restaurant located in the Shops of Windham next to the Sparkle Market in Windham. The first question I asked owner Monica Welton was why a restaurant in this economy, and why now? Monica responded that she had always wanted to have her own restaurant...
Mantua K of C Free Throw Winner Continues On!
Mantua - Meghan Sara of Mantua won the Girls 10 year old division while representing the K of C Mantua Council # 3766 at a recent District level of competition in Kent. Meghan will receive a medallion for her success and an invitation to the Regional level in Warren later in February. Eight participants from the Mantua area were...
G-Men Classic A Rolling Success
Garrettsville - The First Annual G-Men Classic High School Bowling Tournament was held on Saturday, January 29th at SkyLanes. A packed house of hundreds watched sixteen teams consisting of the top boys and girls in Northeast Ohio bowl for the championship trophy in each division. The boys from Massillon Perry defeated Garfield in the finals while the Hubbard girls (pictured) dominated...
Mantua Youth Wrestling Dominates Tournament
Mantua - Mantua Youth Wrestling took First Place at the Portage Lakes Varsity Tournament on Saturday, January 22, 2011. This tournament was a six team round robin that included: Springfield, Coventry, Akron Copley, Portage Lakes Wrestling Club and Barberton. This was the first time in Mantua Youth Wrestling’s history that the team won 1st place overall. The team was lead by...
Artwork Earns Second Place For Howell
Windham - The students in Windham High Schools’ Design & Illustration classes participated in the NAACP Art Show as a part of the organization’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Prayer Breakfast held in Kent , Ohio. All Portage county students were invited to contribute artwork depicting Dr. King’s life and legacy. The artwork of Sherry Corley, Kyle McManus, Kaitlyn Nagy, and...
Nelson Township Launches Website
Nelson Township - The Nelson Township trustees met for their regularly scheduled meeting with the fiscal officer and two of the three trustees present. Trustee Bill Wilson was unavailable. Fiscal officer Dave Finney presented bills and wages to be approved. Finney also stated that the first electronic IRS payment for withholdings had been sent and that because of his...
Lions Host Windham Mayor
Windham - The Windham Lions Club recently invited Windham Mayor Rob Donham to give an outline of what the village plans for the future are. An interesting talk was enjoyed by the members as the mayor took them from his inauguration to present day Windham. His remarks reassured everyone present that the Village was moving away from old ways...
Newton Township Meeting
Newton Township - The January meeting of the Board of Trustees opened at 7:30pm with all members present. Business was as usual with reports from the zoning director, the sheriff’s department, and cemetery news. The road crew reported two new street signs and two stop signs that had been stolen and replaced, as well as general plowing and salting...
Windham Historical Society News
Windham - The Windham Historical Society has become the repository of many of the artworks of world famous woodcarver Huber King, who spent his entire life in Windham. King received numerous awards in juried competitions, including his American Bicentennial carving, pictured above, which he boldly entered into a British woodcarving show in 1976.The carvings are the donation of his...
Windham Trustees Hold Public Meeting
Windham Township - The Windham Township Trustees held a public meeting prior to their regularly scheduled meeting to discuss proposed zoning changes. The zoning proposal brought out about 25 residents who wanted to have their say about the zoning issues. After about an hour of discussing flag lots, lot sizes, square footage allowances, frontage, variances and other property use...
