Barberton News

June 16--BARBERTON -- The casting call for the movie ZombieMom brought out some of the local talent in the Akron-Cleveland area.

James and Sheila Harris look at their new kitchen in their Central Avenue home in June 2013 in Barberton, Ohio.

COVENTRY: Summit County sheriff's deputies and firefighters responded to a fire in a trash receptacle outside a Manchester Road grocery store June 1. A Pace Avenue woman reported June 3 she was walking her dog on Boat Drive when a dog attacked her dog and her hand was injured when she tired to protect her dog.

Trustees questioned architect David King, of Horne and King Architects in Dublin, about contents of a contract he submitted for the project.

Gallery Books has released two titles that just might represent creative nerdvana: "The Star Trek Craft Book" and "Star Trek Cross-Stitch."

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Barberton Alan Brubaker, P.E., P.S., Summit County Engineer, would like to alert residents and motorists of a two day closure of the Hudson Run Road Bridge, just west of 2nd Street S.W., the City of Barberton.

The filing deadline for the September primary in Summit County is 4 p.m. tomorrow and the race to watch is: Barberton clerk.

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COVENTRY: An Alfred Road woman reported May 18 an unknown male who was hired by her next door neighbor to paint a house asked to use her bathroom.

Alcoa Wheel and Transportation Products ' $21 million expansion to its cast house in Barberton, OH, is expected to cut the amount of energy used to recycle aluminum for forged wheels by 50%. There will also be a reduction in greenhouse gases and increased overall efficiency and sustainability of the manufacturing process, Alcoa said.

The victim's name has not been released because officials have been unable to find his next of kin to notify them of the death, said Gary Guenther, spokesman for the Summit County Medical Examiner's Office on Thursday.

A Barberton man has died after he fell out of his boat in the Nimisila Reservoir in Green last night.

Divers found the man's body at 10:20 p.m. He was pronounced dead at 11:03 p.m., according to the Summit County Medical Examiner's Office.

Margaret Bradford kisses her son, Gavin, in the living room of their home early in May 2013, in Barberton, Ohio.

A $21 million expansion to the Alcoa Wheel and Transportation Products cast house in Barberton, OH, that is expected to cut in half the amount of energy used to recycle aluminum for forged wheels.

As downtown Cleveland experiences the Hollywood allure of Marvel's "Captain America: Winter Soldier" for the next few weeks, another film is starting its casting process.

In the little hamlet of Hudson, service and charitable opportunities abound. Anyone with a few hours and a generous inclination can quickly find somewhere to lend a helping hand.

Alcoa expects its $21-million Alcoa Wheel and Transportation Products casthouse expansion at its Barberton, Ohio plant to cut in half the total amount of energy used to recycle aluminum for forged wheels, reducing greenhouse gases and increasing the overall efficiency and sustainability of the company's manufacturing process.