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BARBERTON BOARD OF EDUCATION Treasurer’s contract renewed
BY BOB MOREHEAD Gazette Staff Writer Barberton schools treasurer Craig McKendry stays on the job after the school board renewed his contract July 31 at its regular Board of Education meeting for another three years. McKendry had been operating under a one-year extension. “We did that to break apart the treasurer and the superintendent,” board…
Read MorePOLICE BLOTTER Barberton, Norton crime reports week of July 23
Barberton Reports are gathered from police reports available to the public. Sunday, July 23 • Police were investigating a theft at an E Ford Avenue address. • Police got a call that a man was standing in the middle of First Street Northeast and E Park Avenue, looking around. Officers found him and he said…
Read MoreBARBERTON CITY COUNCIL Resident: Anna Dean Park “in dire need of repairs”
PHOTO BY BOB MOREHEAD | BGNN By BOB MOREHEAD Gazette Staff Writer BARBERTON Roughly a dozen users of Anna Dean Park brought their concerns forward to city council July 24. This was a fraction of about 30 who surprised 3rd Ward Councilman Shorter Griffin the previous Thursday during what he’d thought was to be a…
Read MorePOLICE BLOTTER Barberton, Norton crime reports Week of July 16
Reports are public record and have been gathered from Barberton and Norton police departments. Barberton Sunday, July 16 • An officer said a vehicle passed him on Third Street NW at high speed. The officer followed the vehicle onto Wooster Road W and across the Robinson Avenue Bridge, finally catching up with it on S…
Read MoreSandra “Kay” Wilson, 78
Sandra “Kay” Wilson, 78, passed away peacefully in her sleep at home on Sunday, July 23, 2023. A resident of Barberton and Norton for most of her life. She retired from Pleasant View Nursing Home and was a member of Norton Community Church of the Nazarene. Kay is survived by her sons, Scott Bush and Mark…
Read MoreLucas and his chickens: Norton 9-year-old wins Grand Champion Market Chicken pen at fair
PHOTOS PROVIDED BY ANDY CROASMUN Lucas Croasmun, 9, a Norton Elementary fourth-grade student, earned Grand Champion Market Chicken pen this week at the Summit County Fair. By CHRISTINA McCUNE BGNN NORTON A Norton Elementary student completed his first 4-H project and his hard work took him right to the top at the Summit County…
Read MoreOfficials investigate death of woman found in water at Portage Lakes
BGNN staff A passerby noticed a body floating in the water in North Reservoir at Portage Lakes near the 900 block of Portage Lakes Drive shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday, July 27, according to a news release from the Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office. 911 was called and the Coventry Fire Department responded to the…
Read MoreBarberton man dies from apparent self-inflicted burns
By BOB MOREHEAD Gazette Staff Writer BARBERTON A 60-year-old Washington Avenue man is dead after apparently setting himself on fire July 25. The Barberton Fire Department got the call at 6:40 that night that a person was on fire in front of a Fifth Street SE building. Firefighters arrived and found Roland Cookro suffering from…
Read MorePOLICE BLOTTER Barberton, Norton crime reports
Reports are public record and have been gathered from Barberton and Norton police departments. Barberton Sunday, July 9 • A Fairland Road man came home drunk around 1 a.m., got into an altercation with his girlfriend and called 911. He said she hit him in the head. She said he woke her up arguing and…
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