Portage Lakes News

NEW FRANKLIN: Nancy and Ted Sliwinski's home is a live-in travelogue. One shelf holds an ornate metal plate from Iran; another, a doll from China.

Traffic inches along bow to stern. And that's just in the parking lot. Thousands of people launched boats on the Portage Lakes over the July Fourth weekend.

Visitors take a look at The 34th Annual Portage Lakes Antique and Classic Boat Show in front of the Olde Harbor Inn in Coventry Township, Ohio.

Here is a listing of July 4th activities that will be held in Summit County as we celebrate the birth of our Nation.

COVENTRY TWP.: Most of the boats lining the docks today at the Antique and Classic Boat Show had been plying the waters for decades.

Posted by Michael Scott/Plain Dealer Reporter June 26, 2009 23:52PM Categories: Environment Take your picnic into Ohio's state parks this summer, and you better be ready to take out the garbage when you're done.

CUYAHOGA FALLS: The Polynesian - a one-of-a-kind historic car that has resided in Stark and Summit counties since 1953 - is headed home to California.

Click here to enlarge graphic " /> Click here to enlarge graphic Volunteers are hard at work at Delaware State Park's beach, installing donated shingles on the roof over the men's and women's restrooms.

As the weather warms up and summer moves in, many people are looking to spend time on the water.

AT&T retirees and employees held an informational picket on Thursday in front of a downtown Akron company building to bring attention to protracted contract talks.

Seven months after Rolling Acres Mall suddenly closed, all but one of the tenants who stayed until the bitter end have reopened in new locations.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is kicking off a summerlong geocaching challenge for outdoor enthusiasts with GPS units.

The childhood secrets of beatings, humiliation, sexual abuse and spiritual abuse that cast emotional ripples through decades of depression, addictions and broken marriages are central to a documentary that will premiere in Ohio at 7 p.m. next Saturday at Goss Memorial Church, 2247 11th St.

There is an old saying: ''Figures lie, and liars figure.'' Like much of the other rhetoric in the campaign to recall Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic, the ''data'' offered by recall proponents are nonsense.

Q: Is there one organizational device/tip you can't live without? There are so many products devoted to organizing you could probably buy a product to organize the organizers.

A Green High art student took first place in the billboard-design contest sponsored by the Summit-Akron Solid Waste Management Authority.

The Hudson Jr. Invitational is scheduled to take place June 15 to 17 at the Country Club of Hudson.

Smokers lined up at cigarette outlets Tuesday, stocking up on tobacco products before today's hefty federal tax increases went into effect.

The Tri-City Crushers girls fast-pitch softball league has openings for its upcoming season.

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