Ohio’s first and only sales-tax holiday starts on Friday, Aug. 7 at 12:01 a.m. and ends on Sunday, Aug. 9 at 11:59 p.m., the Ohio Department of Taxation (ODT) announced. The tax holiday was passed by the General Assembly last year and signed into law on Dec. 19, 2014. It Read more
Wadsworth residents will not be voting in November on a 1.1-mill renewal levy to help fund capital purchases for the Wadsworth Fire Department. At Tuesday night’s meeting of Wadsworth City Council, members (with Councilman Bob Thurber absent) voted 6-0 against a measure that would have allowed the city to place Read more
The Garage Ministry is hosting the first of three community heroin awareness meetings from 7 p.m. – 8:30 tonight. It’s not only aimed at the at-risk youth they build relationships with, but educators, parents and anyone in the community. “We’ve been going to too many funerals, too many late night Read more
Residents of Wadsworth have been chomping at the bit to get inside the Wadsworth dog park and let their pooches play. And this weekend, they will get to do just that. Dog park organizer Roni Leatherman says a ribbon cutting/grand opening for the city’s first dog park will be Saturday, Aug. 8 at 3 Read more
We all know in this day and age a person can’t live without their Smartphone, but just how important that piece of technology is to some people can be truly astounding. Wondering what we mean? Well, according to a recent Motorola survey of seven countries, 54-percent of people say they’d Read more
Fred Hargrove Young Artists presents a collaboration with Medina County Arts Foundation and Buckeye Community Theatre: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Jr. Director Amanda Zisk and her young cast kick off their performances on July 30 at Medina High School (851 Weymouth Rd. in Medina). Megan Polk, who plays Belle, and Tyler Martin, Read more
It’s another “peaker” day — one of the hottest days in northeast Ohio. As temperatures are expected to continue well into the 90s over the next few days, City of Wadsworth electric customers are being asked to conserve power. City officials said nothing is wrong with the electric grid; they’re Read more
Starting this coming Sunday night/Monday morning, a major road repaving project will take place in the city of Wadsworth. The repaving project will take place along the length of State Route 94 in Wadsworth, except for the area where the road construction project at Interstate 76 was to have taken Read more
Organizers of Wadsworth’s dog park want to remind residents that the dog park inside Valley View Park is not yet open. The city recently got a call from someone saying their pooch got away when inside the dog park because the gates weren’t closed. Entrance gates haven’t arrived yet to Read more
An award-winning filmmaker from Copley is hoping to get enough support through a Kickstarter campaign to shoot her second documentary abroad. Katie Young has a top-notch crew, and the backing of PBS, for her latest documentary 30,000 Litres, but needs the funds to make the social change film a reality. 30,000 Litres will take viewers Read more
