How Portage County is already preparing for the 2024 solar eclipse

A total solar eclipse passed over Kentucky in 2018. Photo by Jongsun Lee

How Portage County is already preparing for the 2024 solar eclipse

- Wendy DiAlesandro

There’s nothing like planning ahead, especially if you’re a county agency charged with securing safety during a total eclipse of the sun.

It’s a bit more difficult when what might happen is largely unknown, since the last total eclipse northeastern Ohio experienced was on June 16, 1806.

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