Mercy Recognizes Prostate Cancer Awareness Month With Free Prostate Cancer Screenings and Educational Program About Robotic-Assisted Prostatectomy

At their August meeting the Green Board of Education approved funding for new security vestibules for the high school  and middle school. They also approved the hiring of two new assistant principals at the high school.

Summa Barberton Hospital will host free Stop Smoking classes. This series of classes is for people who want to quit smoking and need some support and motivation.

Residents will soon have one less construction zone to drive through as the Massillon Road sanitary project should be complete within the next month.

GREEN  With assistant principals Cindy Brown taking over the reins as Green High principal and Kevin Finefrock moving to principal of Kleckner Elementary, two assistant principal positions needed to be filled at Green High. Veteran Green High social studies teacher Eric Muzi and Bill Bridenthal, former assistant principal at Indian River High School, part of the Indian River Correctional Facility, in Massillon, were selected to fill the positions.

Going into the off-season, Coach Tom Stacy was determined to improve his team's weaknesses and nagging deficiencies that plagued the team during its disappointing 3-7 season last year.
To that end, he identified the problem areas and preached to his players that if they improved in these areas, wins would follow. 

At the Green City Council meeting Aug. 24 Councilman Dave France discussed the repaving project for Massillon Road. The milling portion of the project is underway. The repaving phase of the project is expected to start in the next two to three weeks.

Portage Lakes Career Center held their ribbon cutting for the new health wing addition last Sunday, Aug. 22.

The Green Branch Library will offer classes on how to access the Internet in the library and from your home computer. During class attendees will practice basic Internet searching Web directories and search engines, saving favorite Web sites and printing Web content.

That was the case at our house until the afternoon when our 14-year-old beagle, Jennie, dashed through the gate of our fenced in back yard at Ponteberry and Armistice Sts., ran up the street and disappeared.

Jeff Durbin may be the grandfather of Federal League coaches in Stark County but don't be prepared to get him a cane or a rocking chair anytime soon.

Just because he retired from Lake Middle School after 15 years of presiding over middle school students, don't get the perception that his passion for the sport of football has dwindled a bit.

Monday might have been the first day teams could race, but the early signs are good for Jackson cross country.

At the four-team Bulldog Invitational at Boettler Park, Jackson topped host Green, Nordonia and Massillon Washington on both the boys and girls side.

I have never had a fear of flying. But taking a flight on the only B-24 Liberator plane from World War II that is still flying today, though, falls into a completely different category.

On Aug. 28, 56 artists will  show their wares at the sixth annual Art-A-Palooza held in Green. The City of Green’s Parks and Recreation Division is hosting the free event from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. at Boettler Park.

Christine Allison was a local voice teacher and church choir director. She had a vision for a long time to reach many who were hurting. Allison knew that she could not reach the vast numbers on her own. She decided to form her own chorus.

There is nothing like an alumni game to get a Fall soccer season underway.  Green annually holds an Alumni game to welcome back players, inspire present day ones, and encourage fellowship amongst families. 

When Shannon Branney was little she told her mother she wanted to move as far away from Green as possible, to someplace warm and tropical. After she married Sean Hoffbeck a few years ago, she did move far away from Green - to Alaska. But by no stretch of the imagination would anyone consider Alaska warm and tropical.

Lake High School will host Green High School in the opening game of the 2010 football season on Friday, Aug. 27. The game, scheduled to kick-off at 7:30 p.m. on Alumni Field at Blue Streak Stadium, will mark the third straight season the two neighboring schools have initiated their respective football seasons.  The Blue Streaks have defeated the Bulldogs in their last two encounters, but both teams will bring a wealth of young talent and enthusiasm into this season opener.