Uniontown, Ohio Lions Club

By Karla Ward
Kim Paschall’s life as a prostitute was filled with horrors.”I’ve been pistol whipped. I’ve been thrown out of a moving car. I’ve been robbed. I’ve been raped. I’ve disappeared for two days and no one on the earth knew I was gone,” she said.Paschall said her pimp — also the father of her [...]

LAKE TWP., Ohio (AP) – Residents of an Ohio township are suing to block a police levy narrowly passed by voters in November.
The Repository newspaper in Canton reports (http://bit.ly/v0JyEn ) that a lawsuit filed by residents of Lake Township in northeast Ohio claims incorrect ballot language misled voters.
The ballot told voters that the levy would [...]

Story from WKYC Report
Ohio’s oil and gas energy rush is taking off and one Stark County community with a dark industrial history is listed to be one of the first fracking sites in our area.
Where the well is going and who is drilling it may surprise you.
WKYC Photojournalist Carl Bachtel brings you the story.
Uniontown is [...]

The Jackson Township Lions Club hosted the District 13-D Cabinet Meeting at John Knox Presbyterian Church on Nov. 13.  The district is comprised of five counties: Columbiana, Mahoning, Portage, Stark and Trumbull.  Within this District are 57 clubs, which include the Stark County clubs of Canton, East Canton, Jackson Township, Magnolia, North Canton and Sandy [...]

KEY ACTION  Authorized buying a John Deere four-wheel-drive utility vehicle and a snowplow for use with the vehicle.
DISCUSSION  The vehicle and plow will be used by the cemetery maintenance department. Sam Miller, supervisor of the department, said the items also will be available for use by the police and road departments. The Gator vehicle will [...]

A man who pleaded guilty to taking part in a home invasion and robbery of a North Canton couple in August was sentenced to seven years in prison Monday, as part of a plea agreement where he’s expected to testify against former Hoover High School football star Erick M. Howard.
Stark County Common Pleas Judge Taryn [...]

By Tracy Valentine | The Suburbanite
LAKE  Residents voiced their objections to the passage of Issue 6 in a Nov. 14 standing-room-only Lake Township Trustee meeting.Issue 6 is a 4.5 mill levy that expands the Uniontown Police Department to cover all of Lake Township, except Hartville.
“Why does the rest of Lake have to pay for it? [...]

You are far more likely to be involved in a crash the evening before Thanksgiving and the Sunday evening after, according to an Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) analysis of Thanksgiving weekend crash data.
The study says vehicular crashes happen more often on those days because more people are traveling for the holiday weekend.
Traffic volumes typically [...]