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

With the book closed on the 2000 decade, the Lake football program starts another decade of football with nine Division I opponents, multiple new faces, one former standout quarterback and two other new assistant coaches.

Of course, the grandfather of the Federal League football coaches is back for his 21st season as the patriarch of the Blue Streaks football program. And what a way to ring in the new decade according to head football coach Jeff Durbin.

While most high school sports teams are just getting started on their season, the Lake Center Christian School golf team has staked itself to a 4-0 record, with all four wins coming over Division I programs.

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.

Tony and Theresa Walden, the owners of Walden's Barbershop, are pleased to welcome barber Lori Kinsley to their 1476 Edison St. barber shop.

At the Aug. 3 Hartville Village Council meeting members Jim Sullivan and Rich Currie addressed the personnel committees’ regarding the Village of Hartville adopting a Charter form of government. Currently the Village of Hartville has a Mayor-Council form of government.

In 1972, when Howard Miller, Sr. went shopping at the local Lake V&S hardware store he ended up buying more than expected.

The Berma Shave signs dot the roadside. Those signs of the times mean only one thing - it's time for that hometown favorite festival, the Uniontown Lions Festival.

The ultimate wine tasting is just days away.

The Toast of Ohio Wine Heritage Festival, held on Sandusky's waterfront, has grown into a three day event. This year the event will kick off Aug. 12 -14.

The Uniontown Lions Club invites you to join a seven-day, six-night bus tour to the state of Maine and New Hampshire starting on Sunday, Oct. 3 and returning Saturday, Oct. 9.

Resident Betty Wagner addressed the council regarding an issue she is having with a clogged screen that overlays a pipe in a retention pond that borders her property at the July 20 Hartville Village Council meeting.

During the July 6 meeting of the Stark County Regional Planning Commission (RPC), HRM Enterprises, Inc. received conditional approval for a 300,000 square foot building in Lake Township. Hartville Hardware Home Center will move to next door to the Hartville Kitchen/ Hartville Collectibles on Editions Street. The current store is not simply a hardware store. It offers building materials, home decor and appliances. The new store will offer a drive-thru for lumber.

Quail Hollow State Park will present a program on Nature Journaling, Saturday, July 25, 2 p.m. 

The Stark County Safe Communities program reports for the second quarter of 2010 there were six traffic deaths in Stark County. This compares with 4 traffic deaths for the same period in 2009. Two of the fatalities were persons in motor vehicles and four were motorcycle riders.

Tim Smith feels that he has been fortunate to be blessed with wonderful people in his life and has chosen to pay forward the kindness that was shown to him as a child. By the age of 10, Tim Smith had suffered through cancer and lost both his mother and brother to the same illness. Due to the loss of his mother and having many children in the family, Smith did not receive much time and attention as a child.

Grace United Church of Christ, located at 13275 Cleveland Ave. in Uniontown, will hold our monthly soup kitchen Tuesday, July 20 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Join in the fun at the High Seas Expedition Vacation Bible School (VBS) at Grace United Church of Christ (UCC) in Uniontown July 19-23 from 9  - noon. Grace Church invites all children from the surrounding communities who are 4 years old through those youth who are entering sixth grade next fall to participate in this free fun-filled High Seas Expedition: Exploring the Mighty Love of God! 

At the July 6 Hartville Village Council meeting, Mayor Ed Tucker addressed the council regarding a letter the village received from an organization “Coming Together.”

Kids First Learning Center is a learning center that teaches infants to age five.  The center is open Mondays through Fridays 6:30 a.m. through 6:30 p.m.  Each age group has a head teacher that is trained to work with children of those ages.  All of the teachers at Kids First have a CDA degree and proper credentials to work with preschool age children. The center is owned by Stacey Sullivan, mother of three