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This material covers Marlboro Township Board of Trustees meetings held May 23 and June 8. Fiscal Officer Tracy Ferrett reported the auditor was on-site June 4 for the 2024-25 audit and completed field testing. Additional information was requested, and the firm plans to complete the audit in its office. A draft report w

The three-day Juneteenth “Stronger Together” celebration, put on by The Akron Urban League, Akron NAACP and Freedom BLOC, culminated Saturday afternoon in the parking lot of the Akron Urban League in Sherbondy Hill with a stage with live entertainment, vendors, food trucks and family activities. Earlier in the...

Gin Blossoms will roll into Lock 3 in Downtown Akron on Friday, June 26!. If you don’t expect too much from them, you might not be let down. Hell, even if you expect a lot from them, you still won’t be let down. Formed in Tempe, Arizona, in...

We’re back on brand. Beacon Journal readers continue to reminisce about some of the corporate chains that are no longer with us in Northeast Ohio. Most of the companies have gone defunct or moved out of the region. If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember them. Here are more brands that people miss in the Akron-Cant

BEACHWOOD, Ohio -- The city of Beachwood, which has long been attempting to improve traffic flow at the busy Chagrin Boulevard-Richmond Road intersection, has announced a traffic pattern change. Beginning sometime the week of June 22, drivers traveling south on Richmond Road, as they approach Chagrin Boulevard, will no

When Crenatica Zollicoffer talks about her son, she doesn’t start with the day he died. She starts with SpongeBob. She...

One person won $100,000 with four of five winning numbers, the Powerball, and the PowerPlay multiplier in Saturday night’s drawing.

Among the 113 people who could be impacted by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's recent push to end capital punishment in the state are two death row inmates convicted of murdering four people in Portage County. Tyrone L. Noling , 54, was sentenced to death after his 1996 conviction in the fatal shootings of Bearnhardt and Cora H

Akron is quietly pulling people back, not with one flashy megaproject but with cheap houses, a refreshed downtown, and a cluster of jobs that do not require coastal-sized paychecks. Buyers arriving from pricier metros, along with some locals returning after years away, say they can suddenly afford much more space and s

AKRON, Ohio (WOIO) - The Akron Fire Department responded to a residential fire early Saturday afternoon. According to Akron Fire, the fire occurred at 633 of Brown St. at approximately 12:26 p.m. Heavy black smoke was reported in the area, with initial fire and smoke showing from a multi-story residential...