Area News

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

By BOB MOREHEAD Gazette Staff Writer BARBERTON  The city’s long-awaited skateboard park got a step closer July 17. In the committee work session that night, city council advanced legislation hiring Fabrizi Trucking and Paving for this year’s sidewalk program. In addition to walkways on nearly all First Street NE as well as stretches of Ford…

PHOTO BY BOB MOREHEAD John Cominsky presents a $5,000 check to Barberton Community Ministries director Dorothy Sommerville, attended by BACM board member Dave Stephens, Cominsky’s wife, Brittany, and their 1-year-old daughter, Emersyn. By BOB MOREHEAD Gazette Staff Writer A kid who left home to make good came home again to do good. Detroit Lions defensive…

By BOB MOREHEAD Gazette staff writer BARBERTON  An argument at a Snyder Avenue house July 15 culminated in a fire and an arrest. Around 11:30 a.m., a passerby called 911 about a house fire at the address. The first Barberton Fire Department unit on scene quickly realized the blaze was outside and canceled other units,…

The price of The Barberton Gazette will be $1 per issue – still less than a cup of coffee! Residents in the 44203 zip code can enjoy home delivery for $52 per year. Online subscriptions will be $26 per year (.50* per week) We will have more information in the coming weeks about how to…