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• Darien Wagner participates at State Track

  23-05-2017 23:39 via akronnewsreporter.com
  Darien Wagner, in green and black, comes down the final stretch of the 200 meter dash, finishing in sixth place for the Indians of Arickaree-Woodlin.
  
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• Dietz participates at State Track

  23-05-2017 23:35 via akronnewsreporter.com
  
  Haley Dietz triple jumps her way to second place for the Lady Indians of Arickaree-Woodlin.
  
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• Hisam participates at State Track

  23-05-2017 23:32 via akronnewsreporter.com
  
  Otis' Killian Hisam clears the high jump bar to take third place.
  
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• Chapin participates at State Track

  23-05-2017 23:29 via akronnewsreporter.com
  
  Akron's Gabe Chapin pole vaults his way to a runner up finish.
  
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• Uhrig participates at State Track

  23-05-2017 23:26 via akronnewsreporter.com
  
  Otis' Peyton Uhrig tosses the discus for a fifth place finish.
  
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• Lockard participates at State Track

  23-05-2017 23:23 via akronnewsreporter.com
  
  Lone Star's Sandra Lockard gets set for the 1,600 meter run, where she came in 10th.
  
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• Kuntz participates at State Track

  23-05-2017 23:20 via akronnewsreporter.com
  
  Lone Star's Michaela Kuntz goes up and over, finishing in ninth place in the pole vault.
  
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• Dracon participates at State Track

  23-05-2017 23:15 via akronnewsreporter.com
  
  Otis' Keylan Dracon comes in seventh in the shot put with a throw of 39-09.50.
  
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• Wagner participates at State Trac

  23-05-2017 23:13 via akronnewsreporter.com
  
  Joel Wagner hurls the shot put 39-11-.25, coming in ninth for the Arickaree-Woodlin Indians.
  
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• Schaffert participates at State Track

  23-05-2017 23:09 via akronnewsreporter.com
  
  Landston Schaffert clears the bar, placing fifth in pole vault for Otis.
  
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• Ramos wins two golds at State Track

  23-05-2017 23:06 via akronnewsreporter.com
  Marco Ramos of Arickaree-Woodlin placed first in the discus with a throw of 129-07.
  
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• Ramos leads the way with two golds for Washington County

  23-05-2017 23:03 via akronnewsreporter.com
  
  The revamped State Track and Field Championship meet schedule didn't seem to bother Washington County athletes.
  
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• Arrest made in deadly fire that killed Akron family of seven

  23-05-2017 20:14
  
  Last week’s deadly fire that killed an Akron family of seven has been ruled an arson, officials announced this afternoon during a press conference at the Akron Police Department.Stanley O. Ford, a neighbor of the family, has been arrested and charged with one count of aggravated arson and seven counts of aggravated murder, according to authorities.Ford, 58, of Hillcrest Street, will be arraigned at 9 a.m. Wednesday in Akron Municipal Court.Ford has had no previous criminal charges in Akron
  
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• Collins awarded County Sheriffs of Colorado scholarship

  23-05-2017 16:40 via akronnewsreporter.com
  
  Jon Stivers, Washington County Sheriff, is pleased to announce that Courtney Collins is this year's recipient of the County Sheriffs of Colorado (CSOC) scholarship award for Washington County.
  
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• Jamison officially resigns as Otis Town Clerk

  23-05-2017 16:37 via akronnewsreporter.com
  
  Otis Town Clerk Babette Jamison officially resigned from her position last Friday, May 12.Jamison has been on paid administrative leave since February 8, because there were questions concerning her comp time.
  
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• Victim’s family upset by work release for Akron man who has served half of yearlong jail sentence for shooting death

  23-05-2017 05:13
  
  An Akron mother’s heart has broken three times in the past year and a half.The first was in August 2015 when she found out her son, Marcus Glover, had been shot and killed.The second was in November when she watched David Hillis, the man who shot Glover, sentenced to a year in jail.The third was Monday when Hillis was granted work release after serving just over half of his jail sentence.“I have no understanding of this,” Crystal Thomas, Glover’s mother, said after the Mo
  
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• Residents demand action after shooting near Little League ball fields

  23-05-2017 05:12
  
  Ellet residents flooded City Hall on Monday to demand more of their elected leaders as Little League baseball limped back to the mound at Davenport Park, where gunshots forced children to cower a week ago.Most visiting baseball teams have decided to return to the park after an unsolved shooting May 16. No one was injured after a fight among teenagers on a nearby basketball court ended in seven reported gunshots.The local baseball association has since hired an off-duty Akron police officer to pa
  
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• North Canton man sentenced to 2½ years in federal prison for bribing former Summit County Councilwoman Tamela Lee

  23-05-2017 04:22
  
  A North Canton man who pleaded guilty to bribing former Summit County Councilwoman Tamela Lee has been sentenced to 2½ years in federal prison.U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Boyko also sentenced Omar Abdelqader to two years of parole in federal court in Cleveland Friday and ordered him to pay a $5,000 fine and a $600 special assessment.Abdelqader, 50, pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy to commit honest services mail and wire fraud, honest services mail fraud, Hobbs Act conspir
  
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• Akron school board approves five-year forecast

  23-05-2017 04:22
  
  Stable. In a word, that is the five-year outlook for Akron Public Schools, said schools treasurer Ryan Pendleton.The Akron Board of Education accepted the district’s five-year forecast at its meeting Monday night. Pendleton, who is also the district’s CFO, gave the highlights of the report.Akron will cut 79 positions mostly through attrition between the end of this school year and the start of the next: five administrative, 43.5 certificated and 30.5 classified. The district was also
  
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• Bob Dyer: Cruising off to the great beyond

  23-05-2017 00:56
  
  Bob: My wife and I appreciated your column about gathering vital information that our children will need when we die.We have created a notebook that has much of the information you talked about. We also planned our funerals, including which Scripture readings and hymns to use.My wife has written her obituary in the first person; I still need to do that.Also, we purchased two freestanding niches for our cremains in the Good Shepherd section of Holy Cross Cemetery. In fact, our names and birth yea
  
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