Kent News

Get ready to rock 'n' roll. An all-star lineup of musicians and artists are coming to Kent this weekend.

South Lincoln Street will close for 30 days starting Tuesday so Kent State University can continue work to extend the Esplanade from campus to downtown Kent.

The following story was provided by AOLJobs.com By David Schepp Getting a summer job is a rite of passage for many young people.

Discover the unique and fading ecosystem of a northeastern Ohio bog May 25 on a hike from 11 a.m. to noon at Kent Bog State Nature Preserve in Portage County.

The Kent Community Dinner, hosted by All Together Now, Inc. and the Islamic Society of Akron and Kent , was recently held at the Islamic Community Center of Cuyahoga Falls.

"Marching Orders," a program of Civil War music with narration using words of Abraham Lincoln, will be presented at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Great Hall at Trinity Lutheran Church, 600 S. Water St.

Ravenna City Council's Finance Committee gave the go-ahead to seek bids for a citywide trash pickup.

An appeal to save a blighted Franklin Avenue house in Kent was tabled for an additional 60 days by the city's Board of Zoning Appeals Monday.

Helping families that have a member in jail or prison will be the focus of a presentation by Linda Davis, the executive director of Loved Ones of Prisoners, at the Thursday meeting of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Portage County.

The hourly rates to park in the Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority's Kent Central Gateway parking facility have been announced, though they won't be taking effect until early July.

Here are this week's most bizarre and talked about police reports. All information was provided by police reports from departments in Patch communities.

In the past four years structures across Kent's landscape have quickly been disappearing.

The National Biosafety and Biocontainment Training Program and Kent State University are offering a five-day series of courses in Biosafety and Biocontainment for BSL-3 Laboratory Workers.

Three Portage County residents who held up a Kent drive-thru at knifepoint in January recently were sentenced to prison terms on aggravated robbery charges.

This year's group of Real Heroes honored by the American Red Cross of Summit and Portage Counties on Thursday included two youngsters who saved family members' lives, along with a hospital telephone operator and police and firefighters.

Two longtime staff members of Stanton Middle School in Kent have received the Kent Board of Education's Dr.

Kent City Council gave final approval Wednesday to seek funding a new Safety Administration Building through an income tax increase on the November ballot.

Warm weather and sunny skies are expected to greet visitors to the Kent Environmental Council's annual Cuyahoga River Day festival on Friday and Saturday.

The home Kent State University President Lester Lefton built and has lived in since 2006 is now the official presidential home for the university.

Seventh-grader Myles Spear recently won the history contest about Kent history and the railroad at Stanton Middle School in Kent.