Drop-off sites for Plant a Row for the Hungry
Got a bumper crop to share? You can give the extra vegetables and fruit from your garden to someone in need through Plant a Row for the Hungry.Here are sites that accept donations:• Crown Point Ecology...
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The Historic Home and Garden Tour is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. next Saturday, starting at Richfield Fellowship Hall, 3903 Broadview Road. Four historical properties will be featured.Tickets are $10 in...
View ArticleWhat’s for dinner? Chilean quinoa salad
Usher in summer with a quinoa salad filled with vegetables and shrimp and topped with a citrus-and-olive-oil dressing. Quinoa, an ancient grain from the Andean Mountains, has become very popular in...
View ArticleThe To Do List — week of June 8
Barter of SevilleBargain hunters, get ready. What’s billed as the world’s largest yard sale is coming this week in Seville.On Friday and Saturday, thousands of shoppers are expected to converge on the...
View ArticleJohn Rosemond: Spouses need to pay attention to one another
“How can my spouse and I get on the same page where the kids are concerned?” is both the most difficult question parents ask me and also the most important. It is the most difficult because each of the...
View ArticleSummer’s mantra: Let the lawn games begin
The best part of summer isn’t the long, warm days, or the cookouts, or the opportunity to putter in the garden.It’s the lawn games.Why? Lawn games epitomize summer. And they are so superior to other...
View ArticleBook talk: ‘Sibling Revelry,’ ‘Strike Four! The Crankshaft Baseball Book’
Stow author writes sequelwith kidnappings, murdersIn Stow author Terry Sykes-Bradshaw’s 2009 witty caper The Awful Truth About Dead Men, Kate Kelly and four Jazzercise girlfriends ditch icy Ohio and go...
View ArticleBook review: Madman and retired detective square off in Stephen King’s ‘Mr....
Mr. MercedesStephen King In Mr. Mercedes, Stephen King returns to the nonsupernatural suspense genre of such earlier novels as Cujo and Misery. He also resists the bloat that has crept into his books...
View ArticlePop reviews — week of June 8
Animal Ambition50 Cent50 Cent made a ginormous splash more than a decade ago with his multiplatinum debut Get Rich or Die Tryin’, pushing out early career hits from In da Club to P.I.M.P.But the rapper...
View ArticleWest Virginia’s Long Point offers spectacular vistas of New River Gorge, bridge
FAYETTEVILLE, W.VA.: The New River Gorge is big.It is up to 1,000 feet deep and it extends 53 miles along the New River in south-central West Virginia.The gorge is a playground for paddlers, climbers,...
View ArticleKim Hone-McMahan: Seiberling principal helps autistic student fit in
Sometimes educators can make dreams come true without even knowing.It’s true that teachers, principals and others are doing their jobs when they help youngsters with spelling and arithmetic. But...
View ArticleReligion notes: Clinic to assist people with criminal records
A free clinic to assist people with criminal records will be held from 9 a.m. to noon June 14 at Mount Calvary Baptist Church, 442 Bell St., Akron.The clinic, conducted by representatives of the...
View ArticlePet Place — June 7
Feral Cat Spay & Neuter Spring Fling — One of a Kind Spay & Neuter Clinic, 1700 W. Exchange St., Akron, is offering $15 spay/neuter procedures for feral cats for a limited time. Limit two feral...
View ArticleTRY Ministries working to transform lives, rebuild neighborhoods
Amanda Boroi couldn’t believe her eyes when she saw the new and improved home she lived in as a child.“I cried immediately because it is beautiful,” said Boroi, who lives in Columbus. “Over the years,...
View ArticleEmbracing Futures puts smiles on faces
For many years, Olivia Rodgers refused to smile for school pictures.But these days, the 15-year-old from Akron easily flashes a grin and snaps “selfies” without any hesitation.A local program created...
View ArticleKim Hone-McMahan: Tom Finley and son Pat Finley raise funds with mountain climb
Part of my job is to tell you about fundraisers and people who are doing good things in our community. Now, I understand that reading about fundraisers may not be as exciting as you might like, but you...
View ArticleCharity events — week of June 9
This WeekFridayMedina Community Design Committee Twilight Garden Party — 7-10 p.m. at a neighborhood garden near Medina’s Public Square. Music by John Husbands and work from local artists available for...
View ArticleLocal history: Murder or suicide? 1929 death is puzzling case in Stow
The 90-degree heat was sweltering and the tranquil pond looked so inviting. Two country boys wriggled out of their clothes and took a dip.Richard Call, 8, and his pal Chester Graves, 12, went swimming...
View ArticleCleveland Clinic to acquire minority stake in Akron General
The Cleveland Clinic has reached a tentative deal to acquire a minority stake in Akron General Health System.The hospital systems announced Monday that they recently signed a letter of intent for the...
View ArticleHealthy seniors tested in bid to block Alzheimer’s
WASHINGTON: In one of the most ambitious attempts yet to thwart Alzheimer’s disease, a major study got underway Monday to see if an experimental drug can protect healthy seniors whose brains harbor...
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