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Rubbermaid enterprise zone OK'd for Brimfield site
recordpub.com
Apr 28By MIKE SEVER | STAFF WRITER Portage County commissioners have signed an enterprise zone agreement with InSite Real Estate LLC on an 811,200-square-foot warehouse distribution center to be leased to Rubbermaid Inc. The building, estimated to cost $22 »
High winds spark fire, down trees and power lines in Portage, with photo gallery
recordpub.com
Apr 24High winds downed trees, power lines and poles Monday across Portage County, and sparked a fire in Ravenna Township. »
Grad lists reflect shift in Portage
recordpub.com
Apr 23Portage County's student population seems to be shifting to the west, if recent totals of graduating seniors are any indication. »
Mark Wiles set to die Wednesday for 1985 Portage County murder
recordpub.com
Apr 16After 27 years on Ohio's Death Row, a man convicted of stabbing a Rootstown teenager to death in 1985 is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday. »
$13.5 million in road work set in Portage County
recordpub.com
Apr 16The Ohio Department of Transportation plans $13.5 million in new road projects in Portage County this year. That's in addition to the $26.9 million worth of work already going on in the county. »
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Gov. Kasich denies clemency for Wiles
Dayton Daily News Ohio Politics
Apr 11Gov. John Kasich denied clemency Wednesday for Mark Wayne Wiles of Portage County, who is scheduled to be executed next week. Wiles, 49, was sentenced to death for killing 15-year-old Mark Klima of Rootstown on Aug. 7, 1985. Klima caught... »
Ohio ‘Conservatives Urging Support of Rick Santorum for President’
Bizzy Blog
Feb 22I received the following email a short time ago, and, beyond noting that I agree, am publishing it without comment: COLUMBUS, OHIO – February 22, 2012 A statewide coalition of social and fiscal conservative leaders in Ohio announced today that they sup... »
Now the military is infiltrating the police
The Ohio Republic
Dec 06This story is nothing new -- we reported on an armored vehicle being used by the Fairfield County Sheriff in July 2009. A commenter on that post called it "the optics of clampdown." However, it is getting worse. As reported by Benjamin Carlson in The D... »