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County Offering Free Tax Preparation Assistance
Twinsburg Patch
Jan 30Need some help with tax preparation this year? The Akron Summit Earned Income Tax Credit Program may be of help. Summit County residents who are low-to-moderate income workers and meet the below eligibility requirements could get credit or their tax ... »
United Way Close to Reaching $11M Goal
Fairlawn-Bath Patch
Jan 30The end is near for the 2011-12 Summit County United Way/Red Cross Campaign, and officials say the final results will be positive. Projections show the campaign will exceed the $11.2 million goal when the final results are announced in early April, s... »
Dance teacher guilty of sex with student
WEWS Local News
Jan 27A Summit County jury found a dance teacher guilty of having sex with a 15-year-old student after her husband found condoms in her dance bag, prosecutors say. »
Doylestown Man Arrested After Police Find Sawed Off Shotgun in Truck
Fairlawn-Bath Patch
Jan 27Fairlawn police stopped a Dodge Ram truck on West Market street Jan. 22, after a computer check found the driver had a warrant through Wadsworth and was driving on a suspended license, police said. The officer arrested the driver, Patrick Ray Hull, 2... »
Summit County Metro Parks Breaks Visitation Record
Cuyahoga Falls Patch
Jan 25It was a record-breaking year for the Summit County Metro Parks, according to park officials. The park system saw more than 5.1 million visits in 2011, its 90th anniversary year. That number is up more than 88,000 from 2010 and includes visits at 14 ... »
Latest Blog Posts in Detail
The Unexpected Gift of Life
Summa Flourish
Dec 21The holiday season is upon us with the familiar Christmas craziness, increased traveling, shortened tempers, extensive gift lists, cranky family members and not enough time to truly enjoy the season. S L O W D O W N and consider … Continue rea... »
Arshinkoff for State GOP chairman??????
Grumpy Abe
Dec 20CALL IT far-fetched, but politics has always been sympathetic to far-fetched ideas. So now I'm hearing about a subplot in Gov Kasich's well-organized scheme to drive out Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine. It rests on the March 6 primary elect... »
Ohio GOP: Elephants in the china shop
Grumpy Abe
Dec 19'TIS NOT THE season of good cheer for the Ohio Republican Party. Hostilities continue to erupt in the internecine battle of GOP Titans. In one corner is Gov. Kasich; in the other, state party chief Kevin DeWine. When it comes to clashing egos, this cou... »
Did new probate judge fail to please the county chairman?
Grumpy Abe
Dec 15WHY WOULD A person accept an appointment by the governor to the top judiciary job in the county then declare within a few weeks that he wouldn't seek a full term in next year's election? Right. It made me wonder, too.The authorized version from Todd Mc... »
Book by Mark J. Price: The Rest is History
BJ Alums
Dec 15Mark J. Price, whose popular weekly column "This Place, This Time" has appeared in the Akron Beacon Journal since 1998, has a book coming out in March.“The Rest is History: True Tales from Akron’s Vibrant Past” should become a best-seller. It’s being p... »