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Remembering those we’ve lost in Portage County

Scholarship and Teacher Grant winners presented at the Portage County Retired Teachers Association (PCRTA) luncheon on May 11. The members of PCRTA fund these projects by proctoring exams at NEOMED and through donations. PCRTA reaches out to each Portage County school district each fall with PCRTA Teacher Grant Applications and each spring with PCRTA Scholarship Applications.

Citing zoning, safety and aesthetic concerns, three Portage County townships are imposing moratoriums or even seeking outright bans on commercial wind and solar farms.

The Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure will be traveling through Portage County on June 21 and 22 during its weeklong rally through Northeast Ohio.

Don’t miss Family Health and Safety Days from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 17 at University Hospitals Portage Medical Center, 6549 N. Chestnut St., Ravenna. This is a chance for you to get screenings you have been putting off.

Remembering those we’ve lost in Portage County

An ordinance authorizing the mayor to enter into an agreement for the 2023-24 school year resource officer; this was declared an emergency. A motion to accept the emergency clause was accepted, and the ordinance was passed via roll call.

Last week in this space, I asked The Portager readers to submit their selections for the greatest Portage County high school athletes they’ve ever seen — the G.O.A.T.s, if you will.

Football great Marcus Sanders of Ravenna and two-time track & field Olympian Kim Kreiner of Mogadore topped my list.

Here’s yours:

Public health departments in Ohio are working together to alert residents that the use of e-cigarettes and vaping products are now included in the workplace smoking ban due to statewide law changes. Ohio’s Smoke Free Workplace Law originally went into effect in 2007. This law banned smoking in all indoor public places, essentially providing protection from secondhand smoke in restaurants, businesses, bars, and other workplaces. At that time, electronic vaping products were just starting to come on the market. As […]

Remembering those we’ve lost in Portage County

Aurora City School District will put a bond measure on the ballot in 2024, seeking to build a new school that could cost about $50 million or over $100 million, district officials said. 

Local environmentalists are pushing Portage County commissioners to adopt a countywide climate action plan, but it may be an uphill battle.

Groundbreaking for the Streetsboro Community Center took place two weeks ago. The community center, which will be located at 8970 Kirby Lane at Streetsboro City Park, is scheduled to open in February 2024. The cost will be more than $3.5 million.

The search for a new superintendent for the Kent City School District is down to three candidates.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an essayist and philosopher who was a prolific writer of great words of wisdom. Said he, “I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.” Lifetime Brimfield resident Nikki Husted knows more about a chickens’ motives than anyone I have ever met.

Remembering those we’ve lost in Portage County

Trustee John Lampe reported that he has the blueprints for the Pavilion and Restroom Project. The next step will be to begin on an itemized budget in order to start work.  

About 100 people, most of them Kent residents and area officials, gathered May 30 at Kent’s Theodore Roosevelt High School to tell Kent City Engineer Jim Bowling just what’s wrong with the stretch of North Mantua Street from the high school north to the city limits.

It’s been 13 years, but Kent finally did it. Mayor Jerry Fiala announced May 17 that Kent won the 2023 Annual Hunger Challenge, a friendly competition that pits Kent and Ravenna against each other to see who can raise the most to help those in need.

It’s the greatest debate in sports: Who’s No. 1?