Rootstown News

Serving as the executive director of the Streetsboro Area Chamber of Commerce seemed like the perfect job for Heidi Inzerillo.

Rootstown High School senior band and choir members celebrated a successful musical year with concerts and an award ceremony honoring the best of the musical students.

The Ohio Department of Transportation proposes to construct a new salt dome storage facility on an approximately 5.2 acre commercial parcel in the existing Rootstown Industrial Park.

Ayla Rose Arbogast arrived at Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna on April 17, weighing 6 pounds, 9 ounces.

Members of Elm Garden Club met recently at the Portage County Gardeners' Center in Rootstown to hear a presentation by Kent resident Lynn Greger on "Container Gardening, Herbs." Following the talk and slide show, Elm members assembled their own herb pots with soil and herbs provided by members Mary Ann Kasper and Michelle Worthing.

"Whatever Night Live" was written, directed and produced by the students. Scenes included a look at a Black Friday shopping experience, a stint in Rehab and Awkward Dinner in the play that included seven scenes with introductions and emcees provided by Frank Forecaster, portrayed by Chriss Scott, and Amy Anchorman, acted by Megan Summers.

Rootstown High School senior Morgan Furness, left, recently surprised a Canton sixth-grader with Taylor Swift tickets.

A Portage County mother and daughter have something unique in common -- having their babies delivered by the same nurse/midwife. In 1994, Mary Adamson was at Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna to work with new mom Paula Bevington, who gave birth to her daughter, McKayla.

Northeast Ohio Medical University faculty members were recently honored at the annual Spring Faculty Forum in the Ralph Regula Conference and Event Center on the Rootstown campus.

Northeast Ohio Medical University will host its annual Body Donation Memorial Service at 2 p.m. Monday on the Rootstown campus.

Annevar Garden Club will meet at 10 a.m. Monday at the Portage County Gardeners' Center in Rootstown for a presentation by guest speaker George Newberger on the care of dahlias and their tubers.

The Portage County Literacy Coalition Spelling Bee 2013 will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 24 at the Ralph Regula Conference Center at Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown.

The Careers in Caring job fair is May 9 from 2 to 6 p.m. in the conference room at the Northeast Ohio College of Medicine in Rootstown.

Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown unveiled its first ever mascot. The winner, the Walking Whale, has its roots in research done at NEOMED about 20 years ago.

According to a popular business- and technology-news website, the No. 2 sexiest lawyer in America is the city's own Carter Stewart, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio.

"We are beginning as of today. We will start reaching out and put together a coalition," said Scott Borgemenke, a veteran Republican operative who would lead an effort to extend insurance coverage for hundreds of thousands of poor Ohioans by getting voters to approve a constitutional amendment.

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The city of Dublin is eyeing land in a Riverside Drive strip mall as part of its vision for a park and a pedestrian bridge over the Scioto River.

Two women who went missing as teenagers about a decade ago were found alive today in a residential area just south of downtown Cleveland, within a few miles of where they disappeared.

Northeast Ohio Medical University will unveil its mascot on Wednesday, and mascots from around the region will be traveling to Rootstown to celebrate with either the Rising Phoenix or the Walking Whale.