Portage News

By Mike Sever Record-Courier staff writer Thanksgiving is only four days away, and area food pantries are still in need of donations to help local families.

PORTAGE TOWNSHIP -- Marines dropped off a truckload of joy at the local distribution center Friday.

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It takes hundreds of volunteers to sort and pack the thousands of food and other essential items that are donated to the Holiday Bureau every year for individuals and families right here in Ottawa County.

Santa's friends from the Portage District Fire Department will be guiding him through the streets of the village as he announces his arrival and opens the 2009 holiday season at 4:15 p.m. on Nov.

The price of freedom was written on the faces of the more than 200 men and women standing silent Wednesday on the lawn of the Portage County Courthouse in Ravenna.

Q: Who is the Allen of Allen Township?A: It was Ethan Allen, but, no, not the furniture maker.

Nov. 5 - KARAOKE, 10 p.m. at Pump Bar located at Ohio 4 and Strub Road, Sandusky.

The slaying of a 33-year-old hairdresser found dead early Wednesday was the first homicide in this rural Portage County community in at least 13 years.

A PortageA man died Sunday when the vehicle in which he was a passenger drove into a pond.

A rural Portage, Ohio, man was killed when a car he was in drove into a pond Sunday night west of this Wood County community, authorities said.

BARBERTON: Matchsticks, mums and pigs. Barberton history buff Steve Kelleher has been explaining what these three things have in common for the past 30 years to anyone who would listen.

The National Weather Service has issued a FROST ADVISORY overnight for ASHLAND, CRAWFORD, ERIE, HOLMES, HURON, LORAIN, MAHONING, MEDINA, OTTAWA, PORTAGE, RICHLAND, SANDUSKY, SENECA, STARK, SUMMIT, TRUMBULL AND WAYNE, CARROLL, COLUMBIANA AND TUSCARAWAS until 9:00 AM Thursday morning.

Let's go back in time. Let's go back to the University campus of old, where cows served as school supplies, the Union was a log cabin and elementary students came to the student teachers, and not the other way around.

Isida Mendoza-Camona, 28, arrested by the Ohio Highway Patrol for drunk driving, $5,000 bond.

Sheriff's Office 1:36 a.m. --Disorderly person in the 1100 block of West Fremont Road, Bay Township.

Detention Facility Tuesday Daniel R. Ahner, 20, Sandusky, arrested by the East Harbor State Park Police and charged with underage drinking and criminal mischief, $6,000 bond.

Detention Facility Thursday Jeffrey S., McMillen, 25, Barberton, arrested for failure to appear, $1,181 bond.

PORTAGE TOWNSHIP -- Island Tan at the Lake is a new tanning salon that will open Monday at Harbor Light Landing on Ohio 53 North, Portage Township.

ODOT says the Portage Village's only stoplight at Route 25 and Main Street should be turned off.