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He was tall, dark and handsome in his youth. By all accounts, he was loving, warm, dedicated to work, family and friends. A lieutenant in a big-city fire department, his name was Marty and I met him only twice, shortly before he died, when I was 25 years old and he was 63.

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Garrettsville Summerfest 2023 will take place Friday, June 23 through Sunday, June 25. The annual event will kick off at 6:30 p.m. Friday with the festival commencement and grand marshal presentation to Mark Apple and Summerfest sponsor Daystar Ford.

A local entrepreneur and former Kent State student, along with a group of investors, has been buying properties around Kent for the past two years and now owns a quarter of the city’s licensed rental units.

I saw the telltale scraps of grass and straw on the back porch, along with a feather. Oh no, not another nest! But then I didn’t see anything else for a few days, so I assumed the birds had found a better location.

Pu Koroatu (aka Jacob Tearaamanu) led Anuta for about as long as Queen Elizabeth served as Great Britain’s monarch. No one in the past century has had a greater impact on the island’s social, religious, and political direction.

I have been asked to resume writing my “Around Windham” column for The Portager. I am a big fan of the Windham area and have lived here for 56 years.

The construction on Hudson Road is about to enter its fourth phase, but it needs to be rebid before moving forward because the previous bids were more than 10% higher than the Portage County Engineering Office’s estimate. The office plans to reopen bidding at the July 11 trustee meeting; if a bid is approved, phase four construction will begin soon. 

An ordinance for the mayor to enter into agreement with ICP Geauga Lake, LLC to purchase 40 acres of land and 53.63 acres of a body of water for the construction of a pool, beach and Lake Loop easement, taking the necessary funds from the General Fund (1). Ordinance will move on to second reading.

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“The lake has been a recreational attraction of the community for decades, and to lose access when the parks closed was certainly disappointing,” Aurora Mayor Ann Womer Benjamin said.

The Portage Foundation announced the recipients of its 2023 scholarships. This year, the community foundation granted over $55,000 in scholarships to students from various schools in Portage County.

The G.O.A.T. nominations keep pouring in, so we’re going to keep publishing them.

It is great to be back to writing about our great community. When I was asked to write the Around Garrettsville article again, I had to stop and think, how many years have I been writing this article.

A good writer can make a bit of history read like a suspense novel. Both these books show how true this is.

Remembering those we’ve lost in Portage County

Anyone calling 911 from eight communities around Portage County will now be able to provide Ravenna police dispatchers with real-time information, thanks to a web-based app.

Now that Kent City Council has hired Republic Services for recycling pickup, residents will need to abide by strict rules about what should go in the bins.

At 9 a.m. the meeting was promptly started with the Pledge of Allegiance. The June 1 meeting minutes were approved via roll call, Vice President Sabrina Christian-Bennett was not in attendance. 

Wingfoot Development is putting in a 40-house development just south of town on state Route 43 right across from Rufener Hilltop Farms.