Jackson My Community Update

Longtime art gallery, framing shop about to draw curtain

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:49:37 +0000

JACKSON TWP.: Patrons have seen the Lazar’s Art Gallery and Creative Framing signs at the southeast corner of Hills and Dales Road and Woodlawn Avenue for decades.

Jewell Cardwell: Flash mob draws crowd to celebrate friend battling cancer

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 03:23:51 +0000

“It’s not the length of life, but the depth of life,” essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson was fond of saying.

Jackson Safety Village being held this week

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:25:17 +0000

The Jackson Safety Village is being held this week at Sauder Elementary School. The safety village is sponsored by the Jackson Police and Fire Departments. Jackson Local Schools is also a proud sponsor of the village.

Hudson Junior Invitational: Kent Roosevelt’s Kory Nielsen tackles first major tournament; Stow’s Ian Holt leads boys with opening 69

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:38:18 +0000

HUDSON: Kory Nielsen hadn’t yet played in a golf tournament at the level of the Hudson Junior Invitational, a three-round tournament at the Country Club of Hudson that got underway on Tuesday.

Local Boy Scout awarded with organization's highest honor

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:07:07 +0000

JACKSON TWP.: Mitchell F. Wendt, son of Rick and Diana Wendt of Jackson Township, earned Boy Scouting's highest honor, the Eagle Scout Award. He is a member of Troop 935, which meets at St. Paul United Methodist Church in North Canton.

Map, details emerge about proposed $1.5 billion gas pipeline that would cross swaths of area counties

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:41:43 +0000

A pipeline for transporting natural gas from shale drilling sites in eastern Ohio to Detroit and southern Ontario would run under more than 50 miles of Stark, Summit and Medina counties, according to a map the Beacon Journal has obtained from one of the government entities whose officials met with Spectra Energy about the proposal.

Jewell Cardwell: Wounded soldier makes quite a splash in special games

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 02:52:00 +0000

Bravo to Army National Guard Sgt. Alaina Barnes — a lifetime resident of Cuyahoga Falls and Akron — for medaling three times in the recent Wounded Warrior Games in Colorado Springs.