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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 [...]

 
 
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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

By Malcolm Hall |CantonRep.com staff writer

CANTON TWP. —

A 46-year-old Alliance man, whom authorities say led police in Tuscarawas County on a high-speed chase, died Sunday night after crashing a pickup on Cleveland Avenue SE in southern Stark County.
Karl A. Atherton, who lived in the 500 block of S. Seneca Avenue in Alliance, was pronounced dead [...]

By Lori Monsewicz | CantonRep.com staff writer

Drivers are more likely to collide with a deer in Stark than almost every other county in Ohio.
Stark had the second highest rate in the state last year for deer-vehicle crashes.
Authorities here were summoned to 630 crashes, according to the Ohio Insurance Institute.
Stark was topped only by Richland [...]