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Ohio Senate passes bill honoring White Stumpf and Uniontown Police Capt. Daniel Stiles
By Robert Wang |CantonRep.com staff writer
The Ohio Senate voted 33-0 Tuesday to designate part of state Route 44 in Marlboro Township as the “First Lt. Ashley White Stumpf Memorial Highway.”
The bill now goes to the Ohio House.
If the bill becomes law, the memorial highway would include the section of Route 44 between state Route 619 [...]
Chardon shootings a reminder for schools to be vigilant
By Lisa Reicosky and Lori Monsewicz
The fact that school shootings are rare may offer some peace of mind to parents who send their children off on the bus each morning.
But when they happen, especially as close to home as Chardon, site of the most recent deadly school shooting, parents and school administrators are harshly snapped [...]
Stark County’s Uniontown first ‘fracking’ target
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 [...]
Jackson Lions host district meeting
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 [...]
Today is Election day: Uniontown/Lake Township candidates and issues
Candidates and issues that met Wednesday’s 4 p.m. filing deadline for inclusion on the Nov. 8 general election ballot. The validity of candidate nominating petitions must be approved before a candidate officially makes the ballot. The Stark County Board of Elections has until Aug. 22 to complete that process.
CANDIDATES
* denotes incumbent
Lake Township
Fiscal Officer (elect 1)
Ben [...]
Lake Township eyes townshipwide police, again
By Edd Pritchard
Citing funding cuts that are eating away at the sheriff’s budget, Lake Township trustees have decided to establish a police department.
They hope to persuade residents to pass a 4.5-mill levy Tuesday.
The estimated $2.59 million generated by the property tax would allow the Uniontown Police Department to expand to 20 full-time police officers who [...]
Two admit guilt, agree to testify against Erick Howard
Two men pleaded guilty Thursday for their roles in the robbery of a North Canton couple and agreed to testify against their alleged accomplice, former Hoover High School star running back Erick M. Howard.
Seth R. Obermiller, 20, of 2321 Comet Circle NW in Lake Township, pleaded guilty to charges of kidnapping, aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery [...]
Stark County, Ohio Serial killer, Thomas Dillon dies
Thomas Lee Dillon, who killed Donald Welling of Strasburg and four outdoorsmen in eastern Ohio from 1989 to 1992, has died.
The former Magnolia-area resident, 61, died of natural causes Friday in a prison medical facility, where he had been for about three weeks. Dillon was sentenced July 12, 1993, to 165 years in prison with [...]
