Wadsworth News

Yesterday, U.S. Representative Jim Renacci paid a visit to a few townships in southern Portage County.

His hard work and dedication has paid off as Lyons, 34, a Navy Corpsman, has been named the Navy Medicine Education and Training Command Sailor of the Year.

The eighth-annual Shop with a Cop event begins at 9 a.m. with a pancake breakfast at Wadsworth High School.

Jack Dale Hall, 85, of Wadsworth, has passed away Sunday, November 24, 2013. He was born in Rittman, April 29, 1928, one of five children.

Daniel and Sherry Patterson, Alliance; are announcing the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Stacy Beth Patterson, to Joshua Blake McInturff, son of William and Christine McInturff, Wadsworth.

The Medina County Commissioners agreed Monday to limit the number of cats taken in at the Medina County Animal Shelter and advertise those cats online to try to improve the adoption rate.

A 23-year-old Wadsworth man was convicted Wednesday of breaking into a half-dozen houses near Wadsworth's Valley View Elementary School.

When an 18-year-old Wadsworth High School student went to police in September and accused a 19-year-old man of raping her, Wadsworth police Detective Dawn Schismenos allowed a friend of the girl's to attend the police interview for moral support.

The Medina County Commissioners agreed this morning to limit the number of cats taken in at the Medina County Animal Shelter and advertise those cats online to try to improve the adoption rate.

That is one option open to discussion as county officials re-evaluate what Medina County is doing to get rid of trash and what it might do to boost recycling.

The Medina County Commissioners will discuss at their Monday meeting some of the policies at the Medina County Animal Shelter, which uses a gas chamber to kill cats.