Portage News

Acres of vacant fields come alive once a year to become a small town for a weekend.

Posted By: Kim Wendel Updated: 6/25/2009 5:41:15 PM Posted: 6/25/2009 5:36:40 PM MONTPELIER, Vt.

Channel 3 Weather Bulletin: A Severe Thunderstorm Warning is active for WAYNE, ASHTABULA AND TRUMBULL until 5:15 PM, A Flash Flood Warning is active for WAYNE, ASHTABULA, GEAUGA, PORTAGE AND TRUMBULL until 10:00 PM, A Flood Advisory is active for GEAUGA AND PORTAGE until 6:30 PM A severe thunderstorm watch continues for all of northern Ohio through ...

Posted By: Updated: 6/25/2009 3:42:30 PM Posted: 6/25/2009 3:41:38 PM TUSTIN, CA -- Police say a California man donning a bustier and watching porn on a computer in an apartment complex gym was arrested after officers found drugs in his backpack.

Posted By: Kim Wendel Updated: 6/25/2009 6:15:28 PM Posted: 6/25/2009 5:51:26 PM CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A cold case squad for the U.S. Navy is re-examining evidence in the death of a man who was the third husband of a woman who has five dead husbands in five states, including Ohio.

In the Wood County village of Portage, the police department is now officially a part-time police force.

Residents in the Wood County Village of Portage voiced their concerns at a council meeting Monday night.

The Akron Art Museum will hold its 14th annual Wine Auction this weekend, kicking it off with a ''Napa Valley Experience'' wine tasting on Friday.

12:02 a.m. -- Disorderly person in the 300 block of North Miley Drive, Danbury Township.

PORTAGE TOWNSHIP -- Homeland Security is negotiating with the Ottawa County Visitors Bureau to move the local Border Patrol station to the bureau's visitors center on Ohio 53.

By Amanda Clegg, aclegg@altoonamirror.com, Article Photos A photo is forever, warns Nils Frederiksen.

The area now known as Ottawa County is closely tied to Sandusky County in playing a key role in the early development of the "Great Northwest." For many years, the current Ottawa County territory was part of Sandusky County, but the connection is much deeper.

The National Weather Service has issued a frost advisory for Summit, Portage, Wayne, Stark and Medina counties from 2 to 8 a.m. Tuesday.

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Akron hopes to land federal stimulus money to cut down more than 1,000 healthy ash trees - the species targeted by a tree-killing beetle.

The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for Summit, Portage, Wayne and Medina counties from noon to 11 p.m. Saturday.

A garden tour spanning five weeks is coming this summer in Portage County. One $15 ticket includes 14 different gardens: four on June 6, six on June 27 and four on July 11.

The Village of Portage might need to break up its police force after the State found the town to be in financial crisis.

OAK HARBOR -- Four village streets are slated for improvements this year. During Monday night's meeting of Oak Harbor Village Council, members approved the 2009 street improvement plan by passing an ordinance allowing Village Administrator Robert Pauley to advertise for bids and award contracts for the project.

MONDAY, MAY 4 4:32 p.m. Complainant reported unknown persons broke the window to the front storm door at his residence on South Summit Street and took the lawn furniture placed near the curb and threw it all over his yard.