Barberton News

Summit County voters turned down school levies and bonds in Coventry, Manchester, and Norton, but approved levies in Barberton, Cuyahoga Falls, Green, and Springfield, and Tallmadge.

Landlords who own property in Barberton will have to register their properties with the city starting Jan.

Summit County will use $565,243 in federal Community Development Block Grant money next year to fund projects ranging from tracking homeless trends to creating a doggie day care to replacing a sanitary sewer.

Summit County election officials said this afternoon that voter turnout was higher than expected and they had to order additional ballots.

Police need help finding three fugitives in connection with three murder cases in Akron.

We must have struck a chord. Our recent articles about lost-and-found keepsakes have generated a lot of comments.

Once again, local schools must cope with a flawed funding formula. They are back on the ballot with a persuasive case for voters Published on Thursday, Oct 29, 2009 T he quality of education available to students has a powerful influence on a community's standard of living.

Less than a year after being elected Summit County engineer, B. Alan Brubaker finds himself in an odd position: defending the existence of the office itself.

The dismembered body of a dog was discovered on the side of Hudson Run Road in Barberton last week.

Put together five Halloween costumes for around $19.99. With the gruesome state of the economy, even the bravest among us are a little spooked about spending money on things that aren't really necessary.

The Summit County Health District is holding an H1N1 influenza vaccine clinic from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Hudson Community Chapel, 750 W. Streetsboro St.

AKRON Shooting probe AKRON: Akron police are investigating an early morning shooting of an Akron man Saturday near the intersection of Packard Drive and Slosson Street.

First responders to medical emergencies are getting the first doses of H1N1 influenza vaccine available this week in Summit County.

When an Akron police officer walked inside the apartment, what he saw left him speechless.

Wayside Community Chapel in Findley Township recently gained a new pastor. The Rev.

AKRON Document shredding AKRON: Free document shredding will be available at two sites Saturday.

Sports in Barberton and all over Summit County meant so much to the late Larry Bidlingmyer and his family.

Don't be surprised if somebody doesn't start posting the faces of gracefully aging local centenarians on bottles of water and marketing them as Staying Alive Tonic Water.

The flu has some local hospitals restricting patient visitation to only healthy adults.

PATASKALA: Earl G. Schneider, Sr., 63, of Pataskala, passed away on October 2, 2009 at the Chillicothe Veteran Hospital.