Portage County News

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A bear sighting was reported May 26 in the area of Delores Drive and Kensington Lane in Streetsboro, according to Streetsboro police.

A bear sighting has been reported in the area of Delores Drive and Kensington Lane in Streetsboro, according to Streetsboro police.

Imagine an indoor garbage dump full of rotten candy bars, ice cream cones, beer and syrup, stacked in drums and pallets to the ceiling.

Fire officials Friday afternoon uncovered what they believe to be a possible meth lab following a report of smoke coming from an apartment building in the 100 block of Spruce Street.

People hoping for a job with Rubbermaid started lining up hours before the official start of a job fair Friday in Ravenna.

There will be only five sites where students in Henry Defer Intermediate School teacher Kathy Betley's fourth-grade class will sell lemonade as part of National Lemonade Day over Memorial Day weekend, rather than six, which was reported in the May 23 print edition of the paper.

Trees infested with the Emerald Ash Borer were found and removed on the Kent State University campus this week.

WHAT: Rubbermaid is hosting a job fair in partnership with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services to recruit employees for its expanded operations in northeast Ohio.

Two latter-day pioneer pilots from Northeast Ohio touched down in Dayton today, 10 days after takeoff, and one county short of their goal.

A North Carolina developer has applied for zoning changes for a 20-acre tract of land in Franklin Township in order to build a new student apartment complex across from Dix Stadium east of the Kent State University campus.

Kent State University College of Nursing professors Peggy Doheny, Ph.D., and Ann Jacobson, Ph.D., will ride their bicycles to work on Friday, May 18, to mark National Bike to Work Day.

Portage County's population, like a middle-aged guy's hair, is getting a little thin in the middle.

A 46-year-old Chicago man was killed Wednesday morning when his car crashed into a guard rail on the Ohio Turnpike in Streetsboro.

State Rep. Kathleen Clyde will host a town hall discussion at Reed Memorial Library in Ravenna on May 21 at p.m. Clyde will give an update on important state issues from the first half of 2012, and recap her work representing Portage County in Columbus.

Portage County is becoming a popular location for sobriety checkpoints this year.

Record-Courier Staff Report Fairmount Properties' College Town Kent project, a $30 million public-private development, was awarded Mixed-use Project of the Year by the Northern Ohio Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties at their recent Annual Awards of Excellence.

A Portage County judge denied a request May 11 by a former schools substitute teacher to be placed on probation after the teacher admitted to having sex with a male student last spring.

The planning and commission commission voted 4-2 May 8 to send the proposed code to Council.

The city of Ravenna is investing in the health of its residents with the Downtown Ravenna Farmers Market, which will open Thursday.