Young volunteers at Ravenna's Center of Hope get much out of giving. On Friday morning, a group of Ravenna High School students heads to a food pantry in town to volunteer for an hour or so. "I go ahead and I do a food order from Akron-Canton [Regional] Food Bank," said Lajoyce Harris, program manager at Amelia DiGirolamo Center of Hope.Ravenna Record-Courier Officials from Ravenna School District laid out the district's case for a levy on the March ballot at the first stop of their Listening Tour . The session, Tuesday at Ravenna Assembly of God, was sparsely attended, with mostly district employees and board members in the audience.You can cancel at any time by calling Customer Service at 1-330-296-8414. Residents living in California, Vermont, New York, Maine, and Oregon can cancel online by visiting their Account Management page once logged in to the website.The owner of Puf City Vape and Smoke Shop is facing a drug trafficking charge after the Portage County Sheriff's Office searched the business Monday. ... Ravenna Record-Courier. The owner of a Ravenna vape shop was arrested Monday stemming from allegations that he was dealing in illegal narcotics, including to juveniles, following a search of ...RAVENNA − Construction of a center that will expand services for people facing a mental health crises began Friday in Ravenna. Representatives of the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Portage County and Coleman Health Services said Portage Crisis Center is expected to be complete in 2026. The project will include an extensive renovation and addition to the existing Crisis Stabilization ...1. Two people were arrested last week after threats were made to kill a Ravenna Township man, the Portage County Sheriff's Office reported. The sheriff's office said in a news release that the threats were reported Dec. 19, and a suspect was arrested the following day. As a result of their investigation, deputies arrested Jason Flynn, 47, …Jeff Saunders. Ravenna Record-Courier. 0:04. 0:56. A Kent man is facing felony charges in connection with a January crash that killed a passenger in his car and injured a Spectrum truck driver in Kent. A grand jury has indicted Albert Carmen Ditomaso, 50, with second-degree felony aggravated vehicular homicide, two counts of third-degree felony ...Busing, sports among Ravenna Schools potential cuts after levy failure Potato appreciation runs deep (fried) at Ravenna Jo-Jo Festival Saturday's HS scores: Aurora baseball tops Roosevelt in extra innings Aurora, Field, Mogadore softball earn top-4 seeds in tournament 'It's always just worked for me': Homan's stellar slurve lifts Field Check ...Ravenna Record-Courier. 0:03. 1:34. The Ravenna Ravens’ Hall of Fame committee is accepting nominations for the 2024 Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Nomination forms or letters should be submitted by March 29. Nominations may be submitted in the following categories: Academic/career accomplishments. Cultural performing arts.Ohio now among the most productive oil-producing states Family Dollar to close stores, lay off hundreds in Ohio. What to know Real estate transfers: Aurora home sells for $616,000 Joann's bankruptcy stirs up shock, memories and hope for a turnaround. The latest business news in Kent, OH from Kent Ravenna Record-Courier.Department of Veterans Affairs Death Index 1850-2010 over 14 million U.S. veterans and VA beneficiaries who died between the years 1850 and 2010. Find a Grave Index 1600s-Current browse over 240 million cemetery records. browse over 25 Portage County and Kent, Ohio obituary indexes, including newspaper obituaries, death indexes, funeral home ...Anyone with additional information about the incident is encouraged to contact the detective bureau of the Ravenna Police Department at 330-296-6486or the Ravenna Fire Department at 330-297-5738. This article originally appeared on Record-Courier: Ravenna woman faces arson charges after apartment fireCall 1-330-296-8414 and give offer code WEB-JX to subscribe now. *Offer available to new customers only. All savings based off the regular rate. Need help or have a question about your account? Call customer service at 1-330-296-8414 and reference promo code WEB-JX.Ravenna City Council is looking for a new member after Rob Kairis was appointed as president of council. Kairis was elected unanimously to succeed Andrew Kluge, who resigned, citing job and family commitments. Kluge presided over his last council meeting Monday, when Kairis was named to the post. Council now has 30 days to name a new member to ...Jerry W. Carlton, age 80 of Mantua Twp., passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, Saturday, May 11, 2024. Jerry was born in Ravenna, Ohio on April 19, 1944 to the late Willis and Dorothy (Luce)... Kent Record Courier obituaries and death notices. Remembering the lives of those we've lost.Ravenna Record-Courier. A man and two women are facing felony charges, including rape, stemming from an alleged assault of a woman while they were at a Ravenna apartment in late October. Abdul Khabeer Abdus-Shakoor, 53, Deolia A. Day, 58, and Karen S. Gibbons, 61, all of Ravenna, were arraigned in Portage County Court of Common Pleas on Tuesday ...Job openings are booming. Where are the workers? Job openings in the US are booming. Where are the workers? There were 10.9 million jobs available in the US in July, the fifth str...Ravenna Record-Courier. 0:03. 0:50. Two teens were taken into custody after the Portage County Sheriff's Office twice pursued a vehicle that had been reported stolen. The vehicle crashed about 3 p.m. Sunday in Kent when the westbound vehicle struck several other vehicles stopped for a red light on Main Street at Luther Avenue on the north side ...Portage County food banks using settlement payout from Dollar General to stock pantries. The Center of Hope and Kent Social Services will receive part of a $1 million settlement from earlier this year over allegations that Dollar General used deceptive pricing practices at its Ohio stores. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost recently announced that ...Ravenna Record-Courier. May 18, ... The Portage County Engineer's Office has scheduled a series of road closures for culvert replacements in Ravenna Township starting Tuesday.Portage County Real Estate: Brand new home in Aurora sells for $900K. See the design. Several properties sold for over $500,000 in Portage County for the week of Oct. 25. One property here in Aurora led the way selling with a price of $899,185. According to Realtor.com, the Aurora home on Reids Way was built in 2023 on a .48-acre lot.Jonah Rosenblum, Record-Courier. 742 likes · 205 talking about this. Hi, I'm the high school beat writer for The Record-Courier.Ohio legislature must act on death penalty | Guest editorial Inmate shook and writhed. It is inhumane AG wants to execute with drug. Opinion content for the Kent, OH area from Kent Ravenna Record-Courier.Whether you're recording dictation, a business presentation, audio notes or music, your iPhone has a limit on how much audio it can record. A few minutes here and there isn't likel...Ravenna: The Ravenna Memorial Day Parade, which returned last year after it was suspended in 2019, will step off at 10 a.m. Monday. Participants will sign up at 8:30 a.m. at the American Legion, and assemble nearby. The parade will stop at the Portage County Courthouse lawn for a brief observance, then continue to Maple Grove Cemetery, where a ceremony will take place.Hours. Monday - Friday: 8:00am - 5:00pm. Saturday: 7:00am - 11:00am. Sunday: 7:00am - 11:00amRavenna to amp plans for police, fire departments. Ravenna soon will turn its attention to planning a new building for the city's safety forces. In 2022, the city purchased the 5-acre site of the former Ravenna High School on East Main Street with the intent to build a new safety center and City Hall. The old high school was demolished in 2012 ...Ravenna and the Portage County Regional Planning Commission are undertaking an updated version of the city’s master plan that will identify goals and key players who can bring those goals to fruition. Todd Peetz, in his 15th year as director of the commission, said the updated master plan will be cutting edge for its clarity and ease of use.Submitted: Meet your local candidates at League of Women Voters events around northern Portage County. The League of Women Voters of Northern Portage County invites members of the community to our 2023 Meet the Candidates nights. There will be three sessions, each covering a different area of northern Portage County.Ravenna celebrates 1993 state title. With wrestling fans descending on James L. Coll Gymnasium from all over Portage County, what better time to honor Ravenna's 1993 state championship team? That was Ravens coach Eric Kline's thinking, as members of the 1993 team came from as far away as Illinois and Wisconsin and were recognized at center court.The Portager is a new local news source for Portage County, Ohio. We cover local government, businesses and nonprofits, schools, and things to do around town. Our journalists have written for The New York Times, Newsweek and, yes, the Record-Courier. In fact, longtime Record-Courier editor Roger Di Paolo was on our board until his passing in 2021.Record-Courier. A Portage County judge has ordered probation for a Ravenna man stemming from an incident in which he and his wife barricaded themselves in their West Main Street apartment in October. Judge Becky Doherty ordered that Jason Lee Jeffers Sr., 42, serve two years probation, with the first year in an intensive supervision program ...Bob Finney, Ravenna's city engineer, said he recently received an email from one of the owners of Supergood, a medical marijuana dispensary in the city. The letter, Finney said, stated that it looked like the state law would permit dispensaries such as Supergood to add adult cannabis to their offerings within 90 days, and asked what the city's ...Jeff Saunders. Ravenna Record-Courier. 0:00. 0:56. More than six years after a jury convicted Javon Thomas in the shooting deaths of two men in a Ravenna apartment, another jury is now hearing his case. Thomas' conviction was overturned, and a new trial was ordered. He originally was sentenced to spent at least 36 years in prison.Ravenna's Jameson Jordan and Mallory Sterba, Field's Autumn Atha and Corinne Wirth medal. Jonah Rosenblum. Ravenna Record-Courier. 0:03. 1:36. Here are five things to know from Tuesday's Metro Athletic Conference Tennis Tournament: 1. Jameson Jordan earns Metro Athletic Conference runner-up honors. Ravenna senior Jameson Jordan capped her Metro ...Ravenna City Council will hold a public hearing Monday to consider Tax Increment Financing for improvements related to LG Chem's development in Ravenna.. The meeting will take place at 6 p.m. Monday at Ravenna City Council Chambers, 210 Park Way, and also will be live streamed on council's YouTube page.. Economic …Ravenna rocked its first live music festival on Saturday, with promises of more live music to come every month extending into fall. More:Ravenna Rocks concert series kicks off downtown on Saturday event More:Art on Main festival draws brisk crowd to Ravenna The Portage County seat kicked off celebration of the Independence Day weekend with the Ravenna Rocks festival, which began at 4 p.m. and ...Charter Communications unveiled its Rural Broadband program during an event at Freedom Town Hall. The program will increase access to high speed internet in rural areas of Portage County. Charter is the parent company for Spectrum, whose name appears on the trucks residents will begin to see in the area. "A lot of people are going to see our ...A home in Aurora has sold for $540,000, according to real estate transfers from the Portage County Auditor's Office. Today's listings cover the week of Nov. 22, 2023. The Aurora home, at 225 Lakeland Way, had a selling price of $540,000. According to Realtor.com, the Lakeland Way home was built in 2017 on a .24-acre lot.Give to a forest in need in their memory. Donna June Bennett, 78 of Ravenna, passed away Thursday January 19, 2023 at Vista Verande in Ravenna, with her family by her side. On January 12, 1945 in Washington, PA, Donna was born to the late Robert and Dorothy (Wheeler) Robertson, Sr.. She has lived in Ravenna most of her life and enjoyed being a ...0:45. Kent Police Department is mourning one of its own. Retired Police Officer Matthew Butcher, 50, of Kent died Saturday, according to an obituary posted at from Shorts-Spicer-Crislip Funeral Homes. Memorial calling hours will be from 4 p.m. until the start of the memorial service at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Kent Roosevelt High School auditorium.2022 Juneteenth celebration comes to downtown Ravenna. Derek Kreider. Record-Courier. Portage County celebrated Juneteenth this year in downtown Ravenna. Entertainment, food and activities spread out across the courthouse lawn. In the center of the affair, an inflated bounce house, and wafting over the everything was the smell of Taste Good ...Lee Lovejoy looks to lift Ravenna baseball back to prominence. Jonah Rosenblum. Record-Courier. For the first time in years, Lee Lovejoy is back in the home dugout along Chestnut Avenue. A first team All-Portage Trail Conference player for Ravenna as a junior and senior, including Player of the Year in 2011, Lovejoy has always maintained close ...Ravenna Record-Courier. 0:01. 1:38. Welcome to the 2023 Voter Guide produced by the League of Women Voters and published by the Record-Courier. This article lists the issues appearing on ballots across Portage County on Nov. 7. Early voting is taking place at the Portage County Board of Elections, 449 S. Meridian St. Ravenna, through Nov. 5.Record-Courier obits are an excellent source of information about those long-lost family members in Kent, Ravenna, Ohio. With the Record-Courier obituary archives being one of the leading sources for uncovering your history in Ohio, it's important to know how to perform a Record-Courier obituary search to access this wealth of research from ...RAVENNA − An animal rescue group has been ordered to pay more than $5,000 and cease operating following the deaths of 146 dogs last year at a Mantua Township home.. After Canine Lifeline, Inc. pleaded no contest Friday to 25 counts of first-degree misdemeanor cruelty to companion animals in Portage County Municipal Court in Ravenna, Acting Judge James Silver found the non-profit organization ...The Courier Journal newspaper has a long-standing history in the realm of local journalism. For years, it has played a vital role in shaping public opinion and informing communitie...In today’s fast-paced business world, finding the right courier company partner is crucial for ensuring efficient and reliable delivery services. Before starting your search for a ...Ohio legislature must act on death penalty | Guest editorial Inmate shook and writhed. It is inhumane AG wants to execute with drug. Opinion content for the Kent, OH area from Kent Ravenna Record-Courier.Ravenna’s 225th Anniversary Celebration will take place Saturday, June 8, and it’s actually a two-for-one deal: The birthday bash will be held in conjunction with Main Street …Jonah Rosenblum, Record-Courier. 742 likes · 205 talking about this. Hi, I'm the high school beat writer for The Record-Courier.A Ravenna woman has the next 10 years to repay almost $700,000 to two elderly Kent residents from whom she embezzled money for more than two years. Martha N. Powers, 52, of Yorkshire Drive will b… News Sports Entertainment Opinion Best of the Best Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper LegalsExpect a physical game between Rootstown, which ran the ball 45 times Friday in a 42-30 win over Crestwood, and Champion, which transitioned to a GUN-T base this offseason. Here is our look at all 11 Week 2 high school football games in Portage County, including Ravenna-Mogadore, Aurora-Riverside and CVCA-Roosevelt.The event will run 5 to 8 p.m. at the castle, 5551 S. Prospect Ave. in Ravenna. The dress code is summer casual. Tickets are available now and can be purchased at www.portagehaven.org or by calling 330-235-8600. The Haven of Portage County will host its Summer Soiree Fundraiser on Saturday, June 29 at Byers DiPaola Castle in Ravenna.That, he said, is not enough. Mogadore will be asking voters for a 5.9-mill, 5-year levy − the same issue voters turned down in November. The levy is expected to collect $635,000 annually and cost homeowners $207 in taxes per year per $100,000 in home value. The Aurora School district is seeking a 1.5-mill, 5-year renewal levy.Story by Jeff Saunders, Ravenna Record-Courier • 2d A s Gail Richardson stood in a darkened room at Akron's Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens last June, the man sitting at the table took a long time ...Record-Courier 'I haven't felt like that before': Ravenna's David Davis, Cloverleaf cap MAC Championships. jonah rosenblum, ravenna record-courier. Mon, Feb 19, 2024, ...Ravenna Record-Courier. 0:04. 1:38. Portage County voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved new tax dollars for the countywide park system and levies to support mental health and recovery services and the Portage Board of Developmental Disabilities. Three Portage County school districts - Aurora, Mogadore and Ravenna - …Ohio legislature must act on death penalty | Guest editorial Inmate shook and writhed. It is inhumane AG wants to execute with drug. Opinion content for the Kent, OH area from Kent Ravenna Record-Courier.The owner of Puf City Vape and Smoke Shop is facing a drug trafficking charge after the Portage County Sheriff's Office searched the business Monday. ... Ravenna Record-Courier. The owner of a Ravenna vape shop was arrested Monday stemming from allegations that he was dealing in illegal narcotics, including to juveniles, following a search of ...Save Page Now. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future.Hours. Monday - Friday: 8:00am - 5:00pm. Saturday: 7:00am - 11:00am. Sunday: 7:00am - 11:00amRavenna Record-Courier. Officials from Ravenna School District laid out the district's case for a levy on the March ballot at the first stop of their Listening Tour. The session, Tuesday at Ravenna Assembly of God, was sparsely attended, with mostly district employees and board members in the audience. But officials expressed hope that those .... Ravenna Record-Courier. A man and two women are facing felonyRavenna Record-Courier. 0:03. 0:26. Five members of the Ravenna Ravenna Record-Courier. 0:03. 0:50. Two teens were taken into custody after the Portage County Sheriff's Office twice pursued a vehicle that had been reported stolen. The vehicle crashed about 3 p.m. Sunday in Kent when the westbound vehicle struck several other vehicles stopped for a red light on Main Street at Luther Avenue on …The Ravenna Jo-Jo Festival will run 4 to 8 p.m. Friday on the Ravenna Courthouse Lawn. The event will include about 10 food vendors, many selling j ojos, plus potato-centered activities for all ages. The event is being sponsored by the civics class at Ravenna High School and Main Street Ravenna. Jason "JJ" Marinin, a student in the program ... Jeff Saunders. Ravenna Record-Courier. 0:03. That, he said, is not enough. Mogadore will be asking voters for a 5.9-mill, 5-year levy − the same issue voters turned down in November. The levy is expected to collect $635,000 annually and cost homeowners $207 in taxes per year per $100,000 in home value. The Aurora School district is seeking a 1.5-mill, 5-year renewal levy.Ravenna Record-Courier. After two consecutive levy defeats, the Ravenna School District is taking a new approach to community outreach. The district on Tuesday is launching its Listening Tour, a series of "state of the schools" presentations that are part of the board of education's initiative to better communicate with the public, ... Ohio now among the most productive oil-produci...
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