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• Kent center offers grief support groups
  ... feelings and emotions. Kelly's Grief Center is located in the Counseling for Wellness building at 420 W. Main St. in Kent. Pre-registration is required. Additional parking is available at Christ Episcopal Church, 118 S. Mantua Street. For ...
  
  
• Kent Bog hike focuses on unique wildlife, site's history
  Discover the unique and fading ecosystem of a northeastern Ohio bog May 25 on a hike from 11 a.m. to noon at Kent Bog State Nature Preserve in Portage County.
  
  
• Kent and its Muslim neighbors focus on peace at home
  The Kent Community Dinner, hosted by All Together Now, Inc. and the Islamic Society of Akron and Kent , was recently held at the Islamic Community Center of Cuyahoga Falls.
  
  
• Tea Party holds Cleveland protest against IRS targeting of conservative groups
  ... was protesting in Cleveland. "They are targeting conservative groups." He said the group's leader, Tom Zawistowski of Kent, was actually in Washington, D.C., testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee. Tom Youngblood of Kent, said he and ...
  
  
• Civil War commemorative program set
  ... Abraham Lincoln, will be presented at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Great Hall at Trinity Lutheran Church, 600 S. Water St. in Kent. This tribute concert pays homage to the 150th anniversary commemorations of the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation. ...
  
  
• Ravenna seeks bids for trash program
  ... place to put a Dumpster, so he has his trash hauled three times a week. He said after R&R Sanitation won the bid from Kent, his costs increased. He said he called Fabet, which cut his bills by 33 percent. He added that the city's proposal, which ...
  
  
• Kent zoning board tables decision on demolition
  An appeal to save a blighted Franklin Avenue house in Kent was tabled for an additional 60 days by the city's Board of Zoning Appeals Monday.
  
  
• Child Taught to Steal, K9 Teased, Man Attempting to Bail Friend Arrested: Best of the Blotter
  ... the child to steal the lipstick at 6:30 p.m. May 8. The child was returned to her mother by Beachwood Police . a€¢ KENT: Men Charged with Teasing Police Dog Two men have been charged with teasing one of the Kent Police Department K9 officers in a ...
  
  
• NAMI Meeting Topic is Loved Ones Of Prisoners Support Group p
  ... Thursday each month 7 p.m. at the office of the Mental Health & Recovery Board of Portage County, 155 E. Main St., Kent. The meeting is free and open to the public. A registered nurse, Davis and her husband Edwin established LOOP in 2012 after their ...
  
  
• 'The only place I can really be me'
  ... School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - otherwise known as the semiannual camp of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Kent, Ohio. KentHogwarts headmaster Joe Kuemerle - please, call him Professor FizzBOOM! - says the camp serves more than just the ...
  
  
• Streetsboro softball team falls to Kent Roosevelt
  The host Streetsboro softball team lost a 5-1 decision to Portage Trail Conference Metro Division rival Kent Roosevelt May 20.
  
  
• PARTA sets parking rates for Kent Central Gateway
  The hourly rates to park in the Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority's Kent Central Gateway parking facility have been announced, though they won't be taking effect until early July.
  
  
• Kent State University Porthouse Theater cast members sing at fundraiser
  Chris Tuck, who will perform at Porthouse Theater this summer, a KSU student and alumnus of Theodore Roosevelt High School in Kent, sings at the home of Dave and Sherry Joy.
  
  
• High school girls will take softball talents overseas in 2014
  ... scouting staff of 78 people got a look at the ability of Parrish and Nagle when both were playing in an indoor event in Kent, Ohio this past January. "It's called the Queen of Diamonds North event,'' Whiteside said. "We had over 2,500 applications ...
  
  
• Kent celebrates the Cuyahoga River
  Kent City School students learned about the significance of the Cuyahoga River and its surrounding ecosystem Friday during the Kent Environmental Council's annual River Day celebration.
  
  
• Paige Michael Williams II born April 25
  Paige Michael Williams II was born April 25 to Paige and Brittany Williams of Kent.
  
  
• Bank Buys Historic Estate at Foreclosure
  A foreclosed mansion with deep Kent roots sold at a bargain recently at sheriff's auction.
  
  
• 24 Demolitions in 2012 bring 4-year Tally to 77
  In the past four years structures across Kent's landscape have quickly been disappearing.
  
  
• Tea party groups call IRS process 'nightmare'
  In this May 14, 2013 photo, Tom Zawistowki, founder of the nonprofit Ohio Liberty Coalition, one of the region's largest groups affiliated with the national tea party movement, poses with a binder of documents he gave to the IRS, in Kent, Ohio.
  
  
• Portage health official ecstatic after levy OK'd first time in years
  ... the charm," said an ecstatic DuWayne Porter, health commissioner for the district that serves all of Portage except Kent and Ravenna. "I can't tell you how much I want to thank the groups out there. They supported us this time like never before, ...