Tallmadge News

Hoops camp set to take place June 11 The Tallmadge High School Blue Devil boys basketball team is hosting a camp designed to improve the overall fundamentals and skills for boys entering grades two through eight.

The city has added $300,000 to this year's road program budget, bringing the grand total for street improvements planned this summer to $1.35 million.

Witnesses called police after watching the suspect loading items from an E. Broadway Street home into a green car and leaving the scene Wednesday morning around 9:45 a.m. Cuyahoga Falls police worked closely with Tallmadge police department to investigate the incident.

Two years and more than $10,000 later and a library is taking shape in Vietnam thanks to some enterprising students at Theodore Roosevelt High School .

Tallmadge Police warn citizens to be on the lookout for suspicious activity that may be related to a rash of burglaries on the east side of town.

Photo By RPC Photo / Jeremy Nobile Gerald Sisko DDS Inc. celebrates a grand opening May 18 for its new location at 60 Metric Drive.

What's left of Ricky Morgan's life hangs in the entryway of his sister Jayann's home in Tallmadge.

The city honors its fallen veterans this Memorial Day with a variety of activities including the annual parade and service at Tallmadge Cemetery.

While the 19th annual Running Ritchies Tallmadge Memorial 5K will be the same race as in years past, this year's event will help participants honor the memory of two locals for the first time.

Elder Craig C. Christensen, seated at left, and Douglas L. Talley, the president of the Akron, Ohio Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints listen to the choir in Tallmadge, Ohio.

Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh said Summit County Common Pleas Judge Lynne Callahan sentenced George T. Greer, 48, of Tallmadge, to 10 years in prison for his 19th DUI.

On Jan. 2, a passerby spotted George Greer, 48, passed out in a car that had crashed into a pole, Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh said.

She's riding in the 3,000-mile Race Across America from California to Maryland in June.

The sister and ex-girlfriend of convicted murderer Ashford Thompson pleaded not guilty May 2 to multiple counts of obstructing justice and tampering with evidence related to Twinsburg Police Officer and Tallmadge resident Joshua Miktarian's 2008 murder.