Here are the top 10 Portage County stories of 2022

There were so many big stories in Portage County in 2022. There have been fires and tragedies of all sorts. The kinds that can hit the soul of a community and bring people together. And lots of moving acts of solidarity and courageous leadership.

There were some truly tragic incidents in Windham, with the murder of a young woman and the shooting death of a resident after a neighbor feud. We also had some very serious house fires in Streetsboro, including one in which a man died. As always, we had two elections in May and in November. There were school controversies and town hall controversies of various stripes. For instance, in Rootstown a beloved soccer coach was nearly fired and Crestwood made itself a spectacle over critical race theory.