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  • [27-05-2012] Bob Dyer: Historic Mount Hope Cemetery losing hope
    People die.Sometimes their cemeteries do, too.Bob Heilman is “working my butt off out here” trying to prevent 146-year-old Mount Hope Cemetery in South Akron from going the way of Atlantis.But it’s a struggle, and...

  • [27-05-2012] Police blotter for Sunday, May 27
    Summit CountyAkronArrestsA West Cedar Street man, 21, and a 12th Street Southwest man, 21, were charged with aggravated robbery after two men entered a Circle K on South Hawkins Avenue through a rear door and pulled a shotgun on a...

  • [25-05-2012] Reactions differ to closing of West Akron street; some mad, others glad about decision
    Grrrr! Woohoo!That about sums up the different viewpoints on Akron’s closing this week of South Pershing Avenue at West Market Street.Residents north of West Market Street are upset, as are drivers who are running into more...

  • [15-05-2012] Bob Dyer: Mogadore’s favorite son back to work after controversy
    MOGADORE:This is not a one-way relationship, this small-town love affair.The people who exchange “high- fives” with Ritchie Stefan get just as big a kick out of it as he does. Every time.If Ritchie knows your name,...

  • [13-05-2012] Green students step back in time to 1885 for history lessons
    GREEN: The 28 students in Jill Baughman’s third-grade class were stumped when asked why there was a perfectly round hole in the top of each of their desks.A receptacle for flags and pencils seemed a perfectly reasonable answer to...

  • [13-05-2012] Bob Dyer: Reader horrified by turn of phrase
    Happy Day for People Who are Mothers.I almost wrote “Happy Mother’s Day,” but that would have been offensive, because I neglected to note that mothers are, first and foremost, people, just like you and me.I have come to...

  • [10-05-2012] Bob Dyer: ODOT finally concedes signs aren’t working
    It’s always nice to get confirmation that you are not, in fact, losing your mind.Fortunately, plenty of readers have been seeing the same thing I have. And now — finally — the Ohio Department of Transportation has...

  • [09-05-2012] Local news briefs — May 8
    AKRONBaseball paradeAKRON: The city’s third annual All-American Baseball & Softball Parade will step off at 11 a.m. Saturday on Main Street.More than 1,500 players will participate from the North Akron, Goodyear Heights, Ellet,...

  • [03-05-2012] Rick Parson always made life better for others
    Rick K. Parson, say his family and friends, was golden. Everyone — no matter their stature in life — who knew him felt it.They knew because every day of his life he practiced the Golden Rule: “Do to others as you...