Brimfield News

The Tallmadge/Brimfield Joint Economic Development District Board decided to increase the income tax rate in the JEDD by .25 percent in 2012, instead of by .5 percent in 2014.

When police in Brimfield, Ohio, stopped Jaime Aguirre, 42, for a traffic violation in October, they found some conventional photos of nude and near-nude women, but were especially surprised at a stash of x-rays and mammograms, which they supposed came from Aguirre's job as technician at an imaging center in Tiffin, Ohio.

Photo By Steph KrellCROP option 2 Several people were handcuffed with the Ravenna Drug Task Force in the Circle K parking lot on Main Street in Ravenna Township on Tuesday evening, December 8, 2009.

Neighbors of the Portage County recycling center took its owners to task Tuesday night, over current maintenance and the possibility it could expand with a garbage transfer station.

Plans by the Portage County Solid Waste Management District to build a new recycling facility and convert its existing one to a garbage transfer site are facing opposition.

An Akron man whose illegal, mobile methamphetamine lab snarled Interstate 76 traffic in Brimfield on June 25 will spend the next 10 years in prison.

The Brimfield and Kent Area Chambers of Commerce are teaming up to promote local holiday shopping and to remind potential buyers in eastern Summit County of the exciting holiday gifts available in Brimfield and Kent.

Photo from the Portage County Health Department Iris Earle, 2, gets the H1N1 nasal spray vaccine while being held by her mother, Angie Earle, both of Brimfield, at the high-risk clinic Saturday at Ravenna Elks Lodge.

A strike vote is looming for teachers in the Field Local School D0istrict as negotiations on retirement and health care benefits remain stalled.

The funding level for the Portage County District Library will not increase after voters turned down a 0.5-mill levy Nov.

Robinson Memorial Hospital is cutting 54 full- and part-time employees as part of a staff reduction plan to eliminate 95 full-time equivalent positions.

Portage County election officials are predicting a 40 percent voter turnout on Election Day.

Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna is cutting 54 full- and part-time employees as part of a staff reduction plan to eliminate 95 full-time equivalent positions.

Police say an Ohio medical technician has been arrested after he was pulled over and officers found photos in his car of female patients, some young girls, undressing.

A Portage County medical worker is accused of taking nude pictures of patients. Jamie Aguirre was pulled over Sunday night on SR 43 at I-73. During the stop, officers found the 43-year-old to be in possession of a small amount of Marijuana and paraphernalia.

Investigators said patients at a northwest Ohio medical lab became the unsuspecting victims in a child pornography case, and now a local health care technician is facing charges.

A traffic stop late Sunday led to the discovery of a cache of hundreds of images of alleged child pornography and multiple felony charges against the man who allegedly took them.

Next week is the last chance for candidates and levy backers to get their message to voters, and for voters to meet the candidates.

CUYAHOGA FALLS: The builder who purchased the Tallmadge Middle School earlier this year put in the highest bid Tuesday for Sill Middle School in Cuyahoga Falls.

BRIMFIELD TWP.:The death of an Akron woman who was found in a store parking lot in July has been ruled an accident, probably caused by drug intoxication.