Kent News

Within the Great Hall at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens are festive decorations, ranging from the enormous Christmas tree to a display of diminutive houses and rooms.

An open poetry reading will take place at 8 p.m. Friday at Last Exit Books, 124 E. Main St. in downtown Kent.

The Streetsboro Area Chamber of Commerce will present George McNulty of the PlayhouseSquare Foundation at its Dec. 11 luncheon, which will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Rusty Nail Restaurant, 7291 Route 43 in Kent.

Toledo high school in lockdown after student found with gun A Toledo high school was in lockdown this morning after a student came to school with a gun.

Well, the Thanksgiving eat-a-thon has come and gone, which leaves us with the final stretch of classes and final projects before sweet Winter Break is here.

Bond was set at $1 million today for the suspect in a fatal accident on the Ohio Turnpike Thanksgiving night that killed an elderly Toledo couple.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol says Andrew D. Gans, 24, of Kent, OH, was driving a black Infiniti M56 at speeds up to 150 miles per hour westbound on the turnpike.

Hywet Hall & Gardens are festive decorations, ranging from the enormous Christmas tree to a display of diminutive houses and rooms.

The Tallmadge Chamber of Commerce will host a Casino Night March 8 at Underwood Hall, 1945 Mogadore Road, Kent.

FREMONT: An Ohio motorist traveling at more than 125 mph was charged Friday with vehicular homicide after his car struck a minivan, killing the couple inside, the State Highway Patrol said.

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The Presbyterian Church of Kent, 1456 E. Summit St., will host the annual Church Women United Christmas Tea at 1 p.m. on Dec. 6. God's Girls on Wheels will present the skit "New Testament Rewind."

The Ohio State Highway Patrol said the occupants in the van were killed, but the number of victims was unknown.

The Streetsboro Area Chamber of Commerce will present George McNulty of the PlayhouseSquare Foundation at its Dec. 11 luncheon, which will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Rusty Nail Restaurant, 7291 Route 43 in Kent.

Owens began his career with Fontaine Trailer at the Kent, Ohio, facility as operations manager in 2003 and became general manager of the Kent facility a year later.

A new local history authored by Record-Courier Editor Roger J. Di Paolo has been published and just in time for the Christmas buying season.

The annual Trinity Lutheran Church Christmas giveaway will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Dec. 7 at the church, 600 S. Water St., Kent.

Members of the Portage Community Chapel and the Portage County Sheriff Jail Trustees worked together Thursday to pack 500 Thanksgiving food boxes for families who have registered with the Center of Hope in Ravenna.

A historical look back at Thanksgiving of the past took place at Hale Farm and Village Nov. 16. Gerald Payn, of Wooster, who has portrayed President Abraham Lincoln at events since 1999, was on hand to mark the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation, which established a uniform day for the national holiday.