“STOMP”
Garrettsville - "Stomp" is a musical performance that incorporates singing, recorders and rhythms that are played on an unusual assortment of objects. In this rhythm driven program the students use 5 gallon detergent buckets as drums, floor brooms that are knocked on the floor as percussive instruments, and pvc pipes that are thumped in rhythmic patterns. It is truly amazing...
Garrettsville Summerfest Seeks Wedding Couple
Have you been recently engaged or engaged for a while and have been thinking about planning your wedding? Perhaps you have been married a long time and would like to renew your vows. Whichever it is, why not consider being Garrettsville’s First Couple and get married or renew your vows right on Main Street Saturday afternoon, June 23, 2012...
Significant Savings in Portage County Premiums
Ravenna - Portage County government has seen a significant savings in its Workers Compensation premiums with the semi-annual premium changes released recently by the state. The Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation issued premium updates that resulted in a decrease in premiums for Portage County of $291,012, with the new premium being $753,006, Commissioners announced. In the last update released...
Robotics Program Expands
The Trumbull County 4-H program has a youth club focused on teaching kids how to build robots and they are looking for new youth to join the club. The 4-H robotics project is designed to engage youth in using science, technology, engineering, and math skills to build Lego robots. Youth will work in small groups to build and program their...
Windham Board of Education News
Windham - Windham Board of Education met for their regularly scheduled meeting with all board members, including Treasurer Dawn Altman and Superintendent Gregg Isler in attendance. Board president Danny Burns called the meeting to order. After they presented the students of the month and Bomber Stars, Burns opened up the floor to guests who wanted to address the board. Art Bowen...
Library News
Portage County Memory Project Are you interested in learning more about Garrettsville’s Opera House? Are you a Civil War enthusiast? Portage County District Library is pleased to announce that it has added additional items to its Portage County Memory Project. Documents, letters, and photographs from two area organizations, including the James A. Garfield Historical Society and the Aurora Historical Society,...
Garrettsville -vs- Windham: Rivals For A Cause
Garrettsville - Two backyard rivals take their competition to a new level. Windham and Garfield schools last year decided to make change in the rivalry rather than contend against one another, they decided come together for a joint cause. A year ago last fall, when Mike Chaffee took over as the principal of Windham Schools, he wanted to revive...
Berardinelli Exceeds Goal
Windham - Mia Berardinelli, is a 5th grade student at Windham Katherine Thomas Elementary School. With the help of her little sister Madison, (1st grader at KT), she recently collected gently used blue jeans for a program called Teens for Jeans through Aeropostale and dosomething.org. She collected jeans from Jan 1st thru Feb 10th with a goal of collecting...
RFC Holds Indoor Garage Sale
Windham - The Renaissance Family Center RFC held their one-day Annual Indoor Garage Sale last Saturday. Long before the scheduled 9am opening time, folks started lining up at the door ready to converge on the facility to find that special item at bargain prices. The doors opened at 9am and folks quickly started snagging the bargains. The facility became...
Leaplings Finally Get to Celebrate Again
Imagine your birthday appearing on the calendar only once every four years. Sounds preposterous, but that’s exactly the case for Leap Year Babies, who are born on February 29. So-called "Leaplings" may hold the secret to staying young, since they can claim that they age only one fourth as fast as everyone else. Also by this logic, an eldest sibling...
Girl Scouts Choose The Red Cross
Newton Falls - Our local Girl Scout Troop 239 is helping the American Red Cross by donating seven quilts, after reading an article requesting needed items. The troop began their "service project” in September. They set up a quilting frame in their meeting room at First Church of God and sewed at each meeting; cutting material, knotting and stitching and...
Twentieth Century Club News
Members of the Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville and their guests met on February 16 in the Fellowship Hall of St. Ambrose Church in Garrettsville to become acquainted with the artistic and spiritual journeys of sculptor and woodcarver Rich Cermak. Members answered the roll call by introducing their guests and the minutes were dispensed with until the next regular...
City of Ravenna Receives approval from Ohio Air Quality Development Authority
Ravenna - Kelly Engelhart, Service Director, traveled to Columbus last week to request financing through the energy bonds administered through the OAQDA, making the City of Ravenna the third Ohio city to take advantage of energy conservation financing through the OAQDA for the overhaul of equipment and systems at six municipal buildings and the majority of the city’s traffic...
Well issues continue to plague Nelson Township garage
Nelson Twp. - Nelson Township Trustees met for their regularly-scheduled meeting with trustees Joe Leonard, Tom Matota, and Jim Turos and Fiscal Officer J. David Finney in attendance. Mr. Finney presented the minutes from the January 4th, 11th, and 18th meetings and they were approved as presented. The minutes from the meeting on February 1, 2012 were read and...
“All Aboard”
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotarians are The Rotarian Train, highballing it to the Family Fun Week coming up, starting with the Music Festival on Sunday, February 26 in the Iva Walker Auditorium at James A. Garfield High School, proceeding through the Community Night Out activities (3/2/12) and Grandparents Night (2/28/12) at the Portage County District Library and ending with the Fun Festival...
Fairway Fitness Hosts Health and Wellness Fair: Healthy Life. Happy Life.
Aurora - Fairway Fitness in Aurora is hosting its first Health and Wellness Fair at the Aurora Golf Club on March 4th from 12 p.m. – 4 p.m. “Healthy Life. Happy Life.” is the theme and if you have been putting off your New Year’s Resolution to live a healthier lifestyle, coming to the health fair is a step...
Nelson Garrettsville Community Cupboard To Open February 27th
Nelson Twp. - The first day of operation will be Monday, February 27th for the newly-formed Nelson Garrettsville Community Cupboard. The cupboard is located at on the northeast corner of Nelson Circle (9415 St. Rt. 305)behind Isaac Mills Bakery. The hours of operation will be Monday 4:00pm to 7:00pm and Wednesday 9:00am to 12:00pm. The cupboard will be closed on...
Soup, Song & Soul-Stirrings
Mantua - St. Joseph’s 2012 Lenten Series begins on the first Tuesday of Lent, February 28, and runs for five consecutive Tuesdays. Soup Suppers begin at 6:00 p.m. in Hughes Hall and are a long standing tradition at St. Joe’s. Parishioners are invited to bring a pot of soup or a loaf of bread to share. Don’t have time...
Local Artist’s Work Becomes A “Hands-On” Experience
And another thing about the GREAT BIG Home and Garden Show…. We got to meet up with internationally-known local light, Joe Leonard, woodcarver par excellence, creator of carousel horses, church installations, mythical creatures of all kinds. He was represented--and did us proud--by an armored carousel horse featured at the entrance next to the hot cars (They were , wouldn’t you...
Mayor Linda Clark Seeks Cooperation in Revitalizing Mantua
Mantua - Mayor Linda Clark recently presented her first State of the Village address of the new year to village council, appealing to residents and business owners to take active part in the change they voted for when they elected her to office last November. “Attend our meetings, contact myself or any council member with ideas, suggestions or complaints that...
Friends of Melana Seek 5K Sponsors
Garrettsville - Friends of Melana (FOM) are seeking sponsors for their Second Annual 5K Run and One Mile Fun Run for kids’ cancer held during Garrettsville’s SummerFest this year. The race will be held on Sunday June 24, 2012 at 9am in beautiful downtown Garrettsville. FOM held their inaugural race last year during SummerFest and had nearly 200 participants...
Amish Heritage Center to Open in Northeastern Ohio
Aurora - Over ten years in development, the Amish Heritage Center, in collaboration with the Florian K. Lawton Foundation, will provide a rich visual and historical program that will encourage a better understanding of the Amish and English visitors that migrated from 18th century Europe, spanning all the way to present day North East Ohio. The Amish Heritage Center...
Say it with flowers…
Garrettsville - Valentines Day is almost here, have you ordered your flowers yet? If you have procrastinated like so many do, it’s not too late to get that done and the friendly folks at the Bay Window would be happy to help you with all your valentine needs as well as other floral needs. Sitting on the east edge of...
Reduce Your Theft Risk
Braceville Twp. - Over the last several weeks, people have contacted me asking what they could do to reduce the risk of theft from their residences. Here are a few things that could be done to help prevent this, and to help aid the police in recovering items taken: Limit what people can see. Leaving certain things lying around your yard...
Nelson Township to host Zoning Seminar
Nelson Twp - The Nelson Township Trustees met for their regularly-scheduled meeting last week with trustees Jim Turos, Tom Matota, and Joe Leonard present. Fiscal officer Dave Finney was unavailable; however Brianne Finney took the minutes for the meeting. Brianne presented the wages and the trustees approved the payment of them, but not before Leonard stated that the prosecutor...
Windham Township hires Zoning Inspector, and Road Worker
Windham Twp - Windham Township Trustees met for their regularly scheduled meeting with all trustees and fiscal officer present. They also had 11 residents, two guests and a deputy sheriff in attendance. Chairman Dann Timmons called the meeting to order and opened the floor to any guests. Guest Fran Teresi from Garrettsville Board of Public Affairs asked to address the...
News From Our County Seat
Portage County - The Portage County Board of Commissioners has had a busy start to the new year. This will highlight some of what has happened so far. After permanently abolishing many administrative jobs in late Fall, we recently approved a plan to streamline workflow and reassign jobs to existing staff. The new system will likely begin in late February. ...
GLTG Announces Summer Workshop Registration
Geauga County - Geauga Lyric Theater Guild, located in Chardon, Ohio, will offer many opportunities for youth ages 4 through 18 during the 2012 summer workshops. Mission Imagination, for early learners, will encourage children to sing, dance and perform, and will have three sessions. The Elementary Drama (Peter Pan) and Elementary Youth Musical (Once Upon a Time) workshops give children...
Portage Park District Foundation Fundraiser
Ravenna - The 14th Annual Portage Environmental Conservation Awards Dinner will take place Saturday April 21 and will feature a reception with music by Mitch Reed, hors d’oeuvres featuring local foods, a buffet dinner and more. The dinner steering committee is seeking nominations for potential awardees to be honored at the event. Nominations for this year’s awards will be considered...
Garrettsville Summerfest Needs Family and Military Photos
Garrettsville - The 2012 Summerfest planning is well on its way and the committee is in need of the public’s help for their latest project. The committee is planning on having a multi-media extravaganza at the conclusion of each day, but to do so we need help. We are looking for family pictures, vacation pictures and military pictures in...