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Families Anonymous of Portage County To Cease Operations

Ravenna - Families Anonymous of Portage County (Ohio) announces the termination of all meetings and activities at the close of the March 11, 2019 meeting. Despite being successfully in existence for approximately four years, recent attendance has been dwindling. We wishfully hope that our efforts have assisted the parents, spouses, siblings, other relatives, and friends of drug or alcohol addicts...

Maplewood Preschool Now Enrolling for the 2019-2020 School Year

Ravenna - Maplewood Preschool in now accepting registrations for the upcoming school year. The state-licensed school operates two preschool classes, Tuesday through Friday. The Pre-K class for children 4- and 5- years of age, who will be attending Kindergarten the following year, runs from 8:40-10:40. The preschool class, for 3- and 4- year olds, runs from 12:00-2:00. The registration...

2916 In Service and Ready to Respond

Garrettsville - Community EMS District is proud to announce that a new vehicle has been added to the fleet. “2916” is a 2019 Ford F-150 pick-up truck. This pick-up truck replaces a 2004 Ford Explorer.

Celebrate Heart Month with this No-Cost Heart-Health Test from University Hospitals

February is Heart Month, a great time to schedule an easy, no-cost test to learn more about your heart health. University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute at UH Portage Medical Center is one of nearly 20 locations across Northeast Ohio offering no-cost calcium scoring. Calcium scoring is a computerized tomography (CT or CAT) scan of the heart. It’s a non-invasive...

Road Apple Roubaix Returns to Garrettsville Saturday

Garrettsville - Wheels up! Or down, as the case may be. The Road Apple Roubaix is BACK! On Saturday, March 2, wheelers (and dealers too, no doubt) of every stripe will be back in Garrettsville for their 5th go at road challenges to be found in the area. And this time , it will be a ?Grand Fondo,? meaning...

Aurora Hosts State of the City Event

Aurora - Last Wednesday, over 160 people attended Aurora’s annual State of the City event at the Bertram Hotel & Conference Center, including area business people, law enforcement and safety officials, county commissioners, and representatives from county and state offices, as well. That day, Aurora City School District Superintendent Pat Ciccantelli shared information about the district, which he referred to...

Windham BOE Discusses Aging Bus Fleet and HVAC System

Windham - The Windham Board of Education (BOE) met for their regularly scheduled meeting with all members in attendance. The members are Darryl McGuire, President, Melissa Roubic, Maurina Collins, Elaine Grant, and Mandy Berardinelli, Vice President. Others serving with the board are the district Treasurer and Foodservice Supervisor Samantha Pochedly and Superintendent Laura Amero. The meeting was called to order...

Nelson Garrettsville Community Cupboard’s Future is Strong!

Garrettsville - Last September the Weekly Villager put out a call for new leadership to take over the Nelson-Garrettsville Community Cupboard. That call went unanswered, but has recently been filled by a group of five individuals who will serve as executive directors of NGCC to keep the valuable service to our community up and running. The community members who will...

CHS Student Awarded American Legion Trip

Mantua - “Congrats to CHS’s Zoe Simmons for earning High Honors on the American Legion’s Americanism & Government Test.” tweeted Crestwood High School Principal Dave McMahon. “Zoe will receive an all-expenses paid trip to Washington DC and Gettysburg, PA as one of 18 delegates from Ohio, along with other scholarships. Proud of you, Zoe!”  McMahon beamed. Now in its 54th...

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...

Register for Medical Readiness Today!

Do you have interest in become a nurse or LPN? Have you always been curious about the medical field and what it is like?  Are you interested in an entry level position in the medical field?    If you answered “yes” to one of these questions, our Medical Readiness Class is for you! The Aspire Program at Maplewood Career Center...

JAG Kindergarten Registration

Kindergarten registration for the 2019/20 school year will be held on March 21, 22, and 25. To be eligible to attend, students entering kindergarten must be five (5) years old on or before August 1st of the coming school year. If your child is eligible to enroll, please call 330-527-2184 for a registration appointment. If you are preparing to transition...

Renovation & Restoration Brewing in Mantua’s New Coffee Company

Mantua - Something’s brewing in downtown Mantua. After 15 years, the vacant storefront at Main and Prospect streets is stirring with the promise of a new community gathering place in the form of a coffee shop. Restoration 44 Coffee Company (aka R44) is the shared dream of co-owners Terry Tung of Chagrin Falls, Dan Tillett of Mantua, and Jamie...

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,...

Portage County Genealogical Society

The Portage County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society will meet Saturday, March 2, 2019 at the Portage County Historical Society at 10:00 a.m.  The society is located at 6549 N. Chestnut St., Ravenna, Ohio. Our guest speaker will be Deb Root Shell. Her topic will be “Mistaken Roots: a Genealogical Cautionary Tale.”  This is a case study of how...

Hiram Police Raise Funds for New K9 Officer

Hiram - Corporal Devin Brown at the Hiram Police Department is expectantly awaiting the arrival of a new partner. While Brown doesn’t have a preference on whether his new partner is male or female, he’s certain his new partner will take a bite out of crime in local communities. Brown is fairly certain his new partner will be willing...

A Little Garrettsville History Lesson…

In 1803 John Garrett of Christian Hundred, Delaware bought 300A of land in the Wild West--OHIO--for $1,313 (about $4.38 per acre). A year later, he and his family--wife, children, two slave girls--and Abraham Dyson, a blacksmith, arrived at his property in the southwest corner of Nelson township in the Connecticut Western Reserve in the new state of Ohio, finding...

Portage Park District Foundation seeks nominations for the 21st Annual Environmental Awards Dinner

Ravenna - The Portage County Environmental Conservation Awards Dinner steering committee is seeking nominations, due by March 7, for awardees to be honored at the event. Nominations for this year’s awards will be considered based on their contributions to Portage County’s environment through education, green business, green building/development, stewardship or environmental activism. Visit the Portage Park District’s website at portageparkdistrict.org...

Bomber Students Recognized For Their PRIDE

The Windham Exempted Village School District is proudly recognizing students who exhibit their Bomber PRIDE throughout the school day. February’s focus for Katherine Thomas Elementary is the letter “D” in PRIDE which stands for Demonstrating Safety.  The Junior and Senior High focused on demonstrating safety and respect. Teachers nominated specific students who model safety and respect in and out...

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...

WVFD News

Windham - The WVFD Joint Fire Board met for their regularly scheduled meeting recently.  The board members are Cheryl Taylor, Brian Miller, and Ron Kilgore. Jayme Neikirk is the fiscal officer for the board. The chairman of the board, Ron Kilgore called the meeting to order. One board member was not in attendance. The board approved the following measures,...

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...

Garrettsville G-Men Classic 2019

Garrettsville - Most people recognize a Rubik’s cube when they see one - its multi-colored squares are pretty distinctive. And most people have, at one point in their life, tried to solve one. How fast could you do it? Would it take you a couple hours? A couple days? Or could you never solve one? Well, the world record...

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...

Mantua-Shalersville Fire District News

Mantua - At the last regular meeting, Chief Matt Roosa informed the Fire Board that the department would be holding emergency vehicle driver training class in mid September. The education and training team from Volunteer Firemen’s Insurance Services, Inc. (VFIS) will facilitate the two-day event. This annual training exercise will include classroom work and hands-on driving training exercises, according...

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...

Positive Morning Greetings at Garfield Elementary

Garrettsville - Fist bump… High-five… Handshake… Hug. No matter what the greeting, this is sure to be another great day in Mrs. Livingston‘s classroom! To help build relationships and demonstrate kindness, students in Mrs. Livingston‘s kindergarten class each receive an individualized morning greeting from an appointed “student greeter” of their peers. Students choose the greeting they wish from a...

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...

News From Mantua Village

Mantua- At the December 2018 meeting, resident Jason Wysong presented Council with documentation from the Ad Hoc Committee that was convened with the goal of gathering facts, information, and ideas regarding the current state of the village’s water treatment plant & waste water treatment plant. Initially, the group reviewed the August 2018 WTP & WWTP Facilities Plan prepared by...

K&K Meat Shoppe a Local Treasure in Mantua

Mantua - Stepping inside the K & K Meat Shoppe, you’re engulfed in the aroma of smoked sausages and if you’re lucky, the succulent scent of wonder-roast rotisserie chicken. This family owned and operated shop on Main Street in Mantua provides quality meats, a full service deli, and an assortment of sandwiches and soups. “Our shop has a wood-burning...

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