Portage County roundup: New Streetsboro Community Center in planning stage, plus news from Ravenna and Aurora

Legislation was passed that is going to repave some of the streets in Ravenna. A Surface Transportation Block grant from the Akron Metropolitan Area Transportation Study will pay for 80% of the project. The streets that will be repaved are South Prospect Street from Main Street to the city limits and North Chestnut Street, both of which will be finished by early summer. Main Street will also be repaved, and most of that will be funded by a grant from the Ohio Department of Transportation.

“The intent is to repave Main Street next year because we’re widening it right now on the west end of town, which includes putting new curves in, moving telephone poles, those kinds of things. There will be new turn lanes in some places, too,” Mayor Frank Seman said. “There are several smaller streets that we’ll try to get repaved in early summer into the fall. We’re trying to do as many as we can. We have a rank order list and go by the ones that need it the most.”