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Ravenna council weighs next steps for safety building after tax measure fails
Ravenna Council Member Carmen Laudato isn’t surprised that city voters rejected a proposed 0.25% income tax increase. Few city leaders stepped up to “sell” the increase to residents, the numbers the city was using to support it were three years old and “there is absolutely no toleration in this economy to additionally tax people,” she said.
Record-Courier
Portage County church planning clothing, diaper giveaway
St. Joseph Church in Mantua plans a free clothing and diaper giveaway for families in need from 9 a.m. to noon on Nov. 14. The church, at 11045 St. Joseph Blvd., will offer free clothing on the first first floor of the Parish Center (former school building). Free diapers will be distributed based on availability. No questions will be asked, but the giveaway is for families in need so it is requested that items not be taken for resale or for fundraising purposes. Attendees do not have to be Mantua residents. This article originally appeared on Record-Courier: Portage County church planning clothing, diaper giveaway
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The 10 Best Family-Owned Restaurants In Akron, Ohio For An Affordable Meal
A good meal in Akron, Ohio, does not have to come with a big bill. Around the city, longtime neighborhood restaurants, sandwich shops, pizza kitchens, and casual dining rooms give families plenty of ways to eat well while watching their spending. The places below offer different starting points, whether you...
Akron Beacon Journal
San Marino Italian Restaurant is an Old World feast | Local Flavor
Our advice? Bring an appetite. The portions are huge at San Marino Italian Restaurant . If you can make it through an entire plate of food in one sitting, you are remarkable. We didn’t even come close. My wife, Susie, and I had a feast on our first visit to the restaurant at 3071 Albrecht Ave. in Springfield Township on the outskirts of Ellet in Akron. Brothers Bill and Perry Thompson are the chefs and owners of the restaurant, which opened in 2024 at the former Eldorado’s Pizza & Sports Bar. If the architecture looks familiar, the building began in the 1960s as a Lawson’s convenience store and later served as a Dairy Mart. The chefs use Northern Italian recipes passed down for five generations in the DeNisi and Marinucci families. That includes their mother’s meatballs and their grandmother’s Italian wedding soup. Their uncle Perry “Butch” DeNisi owned Perry’s Pizza in Los Angeles, which had more than 30 locations in California and Hawaii. The restaurant appeared in the 1982 movie “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.” The brothers pride themselves on authentic cuisine carefully prepared with fresh ingredients and scratch-made sauces and dressings. The YouTube series “America’s Best Restaurants” paid a
cleveland19.com
Parole hearing set for man convicted of killing 2 Ohio college students
SUMMIT COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - The man convicted of killing two University of Akron Students in 1986, has a parole hearing this month. Clinton Dickens, along with Richard Cooey, were found guilty in the murders of Wendy Offredo and Dawn McCreery. Cooey was executed for the crime on Oct. 14,...
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Man convicted of murder for 2025 Akron shooting
AKRON, Ohio (WOIO) - A 34-year-old man was found guilty of the murder of a 27-year-old man, the Summit County Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday. Timothy Whitthorne was found guilty of several felony charges in the shooting and killing of Razeil Robinson near the Rosemary Square apartments in 2025, the prosecutor’s office said.
New York Post
Ohio Circle K worker Kendrick Watson fired after shooting at masked robbers who rammed minivan into gas station
An Ohio gas station worker claims he was fired after he shot at a group of masked men who rammed a minivan into the store during an attempted robbery. Kendrick Watson, 41, was sitting behind the register at a Circle K in Stow, Ohio, around 3:30 a.m. on Nov. 2, when four would-be robbers repeatedly drove a stolen minivan into the storefront, shattering the glass entrance and dislodging an ATM, police said, according to 3News . A second minivan then pulled up outside the convenience store as four masked men jumped out of the vehicle and rushed toward the store. Ohio Circle K worker Kendrick Watson was fired after shooting at masked robbers who rammed a minivan into the store. WKYC Watson grabbed his gun and fired seven shots, sending the brazen crew fleeing as he defended the store and his co-worker. “You just never know what can happen,” Watson told the outlet Friday. “I was more shocked than terrified. Once they rushed the store, I thought my life and my co-worker’s life at the time was in danger, so I opened fire to protect myself and my co-worker.” Ohio ‘house of horrors’ mom whose 16 kids were found locked