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• Former RubberDucks and Aeros players make it big with Indians

  23-10-2016 05:42
  
  It was a humid July afternoon in 2015 and the skinny lefty on the mound at Canal Park was sweating along with everyone else.Ryan Merritt had thrown 77 pitches for the RubberDucks and was on the verge of a no-hitter in the first game of a doubleheader against Reading’s Fightin Phils.The baby-faced Texan reared back, stuck his tongue through his chewing gum as if to blow a bubble and unfurled his 78th. Crack! The batter lifted a lazy fly ball to the center fielder. Out!Peter Nauman, a furnit
  
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• Trump rails against ‘corrupt’ Clinton, ‘lying’ media in Cleveland

  23-10-2016 05:41
  
  By Doug LivingstonBeacon Journal staff writerCLEVELAND: Donald Trump rampaged against Hillary Clinton and the media Saturday in Cleveland as the presidential campaign took another nasty turn 17 days before the election. “She lied to Congress under oath. She lied to the FBI and she made 13 phones disappear, many of them by whacking with a hammer,” he said, having joined his running mate, Mike Pence, on stage at the I-X Center moments earlier.“She bleached and deleted 35,000 emai
  
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• Trump takes down ‘corrupt’ Clinton, ‘lying’ media in Cleveland

  23-10-2016 03:18
  
  By Doug LivingstonBeacon Journal staff writerCLEVELAND: Donald Trump rampaged against Hillary Clinton and the media Saturday in Cleveland as the presidential campaign took another nasty turn 17 days before the election. “She lied to Congress under oath. She lied to the FBI and she made 13 phones disappear, many of them by whacking with a hammer,” he said, having joined his running mate, Mike Pence, on stage at the I-X Center moments earlier.“She bleached and deleted 35,000 emai
  
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• UA students, staff fan out across Akron for Make a Difference Day

  23-10-2016 03:14
  
  “Hello, President Wilson,” Devon Anderson hollered Saturday afternoon, standing waist deep in peonies, waving at the University of Akron’s new leader with hedge clippers in one hand and a fistful of withered perennials in the other. Matthew Wilson, days after being named UA’s new president, walked toward Anderson and other UA student volunteers, with his wife and two teenage sons at his side. “What can we do to help?” Wilson asked, surveying the wilted flower
  
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• Akron looks to parking to help spur residential growth downtown

  23-10-2016 02:58
  
  Akron is looking to do away with the minimum parking requirement for new housing developments downtown, hoping that change helps spur residential growth.“For us to compete and draw those urban dwellers, this is going to put us in a good position,” Councilman Jeff Fusco said.The council is expected to vote Monday on the parking legislation, which also would establish a maximum amount of parking allowed per housing unit.The move, if approved, would promote smart growth, reduce the poss
  
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• Former RubberDucks and Aeros make it big with Indians

  23-10-2016 02:21
  
  It was a humid July afternoon in 2015 and the skinny lefty on the mound at Canal Park was sweating along with everyone else.Ryan Merritt had thrown 77 pitches for the RubberDucks and was on the verge of a no-hitter in the first game of a doubleheader against Reading’s Fightin Phils.The baby-faced Texan reared back, stuck his tongue through his chewing gum as if to blow a bubble and unfurled his 78th. Crack! The batter lifted a lazy fly ball to the center fielder. Out!Peter Nauman, a furnit
  
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• Obituary: Barberton Historical Society President Steve Kelleher, 63

  23-10-2016 02:18
  
  Steve Kelleher was only 23 years old when he decided to dedicate his future to Barberton’s past.It was 1974, and he’d never gotten over the feeling of watching bulldozers take down the mansion of town founder Ohio Columbus Barber. The home — hailed as the most opulent residence between New York City and Chicago when it was completed in 1910 — was razed in 1965 when the city and the mansion’s owners couldn’t agree on terms to save it.As a boy who grew up in the
  
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• Voters to consider one bond issue and several additional and renewal levies in area school districts

  23-10-2016 02:17
  
  Voters in Portage, Stark, Wayne and Medina counties will decide seven renewal levies, four additional levies and one bond issue in their school districts.The lone bond issue (Issue 50) is a 3.8-mill, 6-year proposal that will generate $30 million for construction in Massillon of a new pre-kindergarten through eighth grade school, renovations at the 25-year-old high school and abatement and demolition of Franklin, Gorrell and Whittier elementary schools. It will cost $99.75 annually for each $75,
  
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• Revere and Tallmadge school districts asking voters to approve money to pay for construction

  23-10-2016 01:53
  
  Voters in Summit County will decide eight schools issues next month — three levy renewals, two additional levies and three bond issues to raise money for the renovation and construction of school facilities.Two of the proposed bond issues — 43 and 44 — would generate money to construct new elementary and middle school buildings and move the football stadium and athletic facilities to the high school in the Tallmadge City School District.The third bond issue — 45 — i
  
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• Bob Dyer: The CFLs from hell

  23-10-2016 01:15
  
  Don’t you just love CFL bulbs?The ones that unleash toxic mercury if you break them?The ones that don’t get bright until they warm up?The ones that are an aesthetic nightmare, glaring out from your light fixtures like coiled albino snakes?Yeah, I love them, too.But that didn’t stop me from requesting delivery of Ohio Edison’s Energy Conservation Kit three years ago, a package that contained not only nine compact fluorescent bulbs but also two LED night lights, one smart p
  
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• Regional news briefs — Oct. 23

  23-10-2016 00:49
  
  barbertonEvent has Halloween themeBARBERTON: This month’s Barberton Fourth Friday event will, appropriately, have a Halloween theme. Each month, merchants along West Tuscarawas Avenue downtown offer special deals, activities, pop-up markets and live music and art demonstrations from 5 to 9 p.m.This Friday, the Barberton Public Library will show Hotel Transylvania, with candy and coloring available throughout the evening. The Magical Theatre will have a costume contest with prizes for child
  
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