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This Week Today Big Brothers and S...
This Week Today Big Brothers and Sisters of Summit and Medina Counties will benefit from Arby's restaurants' Help Us Help Kids pin-ups fundraiser being held throughout the area.
Kaleidoscope: Carroll County has lots of rural charm
With gasoline prices nearing $4 a gallon, I've been apprehensive about continuing -- in 2008 -- the road trips I started last year and have shared with readers. via Aurora Advocate
Homers from Hamilton, Young power Ridgewood to road victory
MAGNOLIA - Billy Hamilton and Derrick Young homered back-to-back as Ridgewood defeated Sandy Valley 11-6 in Inter-Valley Conference makeup baseball action Friday evening. via Coshocton Tribune
Record-setting trees found in Y-City
“I inherited two acres of neat trees when I bought this place. The guy who owned it in the 70s brought in a bunch of trees. It was a neat find stumbling on this piece of property.”
ZANESVILLE - Even with a wide variety of trees on his property, Casey Summers is pleased to own a home with a rare, record-setting growth in his back yard. via ZanesvilleTimesRecorder.com
Minerva woman is jailed after car chase through 2 counties
Monday afternoon, Magnolia police arrested a Minerva woman after she led them in a car chase that started in Stark County and ended in Carroll County. via The Review
“At Christmas, I had a lot of people coming in to buy records for people who were getting turntables or people who grew up on records who were getting back into them”
Kyle Siegrist, shopkeeper and audiophile, with some new vinyl at Lost Weekend Records Where to start shopping Ready to go vinyl? Several places in central Ohio sell turntables or albums. via Columbus Dispatch
Police observed damage to the door and door frame, totaling $100. - Marlene Gross, 131 Memosa Drive, reported Thursday at 7:42 p.m. that she had been assaulted at No. via Winchester Sun
Early retirement doesn't guarantee maximum
Q:My wife and I are in our late 50s and work for the same company. The company is offering a generous retirement incentive, and we are considering retiring this year. via Akron Beacon Journal
“There will be a challenge as to the retroactivity because they don't have due process.”
The challenges to Ohio's new sex offender registration law are mounting in Tuscarawas County. via The Times-Reporter
3. Stark County health officials launch attack on staph infections
“For hospitals to report every individual case for something, it takes some time. It's burdensome. If it's important enough to do, the hospital association wants to make sure the data is used for something meaningful”
Updated at 11:19 a.m. At least 23 suspected or confirmed cases of the potentially deadly bacterial infection MRSA have been reported at three Stark County campuses, including Sandy Valley Local School District ... via The Times-Reporter
Hammond, Baker pace OCC road victory for Lady Knights
LEXINGTON - Sarah Hammond's 13 points, nine rebounds and two blocks and Katy Baker's 11 points and three steals powered West Holmes in a 50-42 Ohio Cardinal Conference girls basketball win at Lexington on ... via Coshocton Tribune
Christmas Tree In Place On Fountain Square
If you work Downtown, you'll notice a change on Fountain Square on Monday. Over the weekend, crews brought in the Christmas tree. via WCPO-TV9 Cincinnati
5. Carroll awarded $1 million for radio equipment
“These kind of dollars coming to our county are very important”
Carroll County commissioners learned Thursday from Tom Cottis, Emergency Management Agency director, that the county will receive almost $1 million for the purchase of new radio equipment. via The Times-Reporter
“The largest tree before this one has been below the 25-foot range”
Cincinnati has found its dream Christmas tree for Fountain Square after a lengthy, often frustrating search. via The Cincinnati Enquirer
3. Four compete for two seats on SV board
“I want to see the construction of the new buildings through to the completion. My background in accounting and my overall knowledge of finances is helpful as a board member”
Four candidates are seeking two seats on the Sandy Valley Board of Education Nov. via The Times-Reporter
2. Carroll commissioners to examine complaints about sewer department
Carroll County Commissioner Larry Garner will look into complaints made about the director of Brown Township Sewer Department. via The Times-Reporter
1. Meeting set on Magnolia project
Stark County Park District selected John Milner Associates, Inc. of Louisville, Ky., to complete phase one of the Magnolia Flouring Mills renovation. via The Times-Reporter
Sally Horn and Simon Horn, both of 311 Commonwealth Ave. NE, Massillon. Christina Getz of Massillon and Dennis Getz of 653 Scott Pl. via The Repository
“These were the center of the communities”
Like a band of brothers and sisters on a military reconnaissance mission, the group of 20 volunteers in cars, trucks and minivans invaded three grade schools over the summer. via The Times-Reporter
“People are excited that we're here.”
Cupcakes decorated at the cupcake bar at Our CupCakery in Dublin David Foster Dispatch The Pretty Pretty Princess cupcake, right, and vanilla vanilla cupcake, left, at Pink Moon Cupcake Bakery in Powell David ... via Columbus Dispatch