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Kent City Council considers changing its charter

Tyler Carey March 5, 2015

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Kent State University and Kent City Council plan to discuss the closing of South Willow Street from East Main Street to East College Avenue later this year. The university would like the section of South Willow Street closed to keep pedestrians on the Esplanade safe from oncoming traffic. 

City tables Willow Street closure talks with university

Hilary Crisan November 23, 2014

Discussions between Kent State University and the City of Kent to permanently shut down South Willow Street have been postponed to next September. The university’s desire to shut down a part of South...

Letter to the editor

Gwen B. Fischer October 29, 2014

Although a Kent “outsider” (I’m a resident of NE Portage), because I have researched issues behind Community Rights, I am responding to some of the many objections to Issue 21 in hopes of clarifying...

Members of the Kent Environmental Right Group, including Bonny Esparza, Kathy Schuman and Lee Brooker, attend a community event for speaker Gwen Fischer of Concerned Citizen Ohio on Sept. 15, 2014 at the Kent Free Library.

What the frack?! Ballot issue divides activists, city leaders

Matthew Merchant September 24, 2014

Come November, the city of Kent and Kent State University could begin a drastic social and environmental change in two possible ways.The first, in the eyes of city law director James Silver, would involve...

City plans to purchase College Avenue properties for new police department

Emily Mills June 26, 2014

Kent City Council is working with the law department of the City of Kent to purchase land at the west end of College Avenue near Haymaker Parkway for the city’s new police department.Kent City Manager...

Fracking, other ‘pending issues’ for Kent city council

Madeleine Winer March 13, 2014

Fracking and rentals housing regulations were two of 26 issues that remained in discussion after Kent City Manager David Ruller attempted to clean the list of pending issues city council has not moved...

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