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The Canton Repository has assembled some of the best quotes of the week.

Habitat for Humanity East Central Ohio gets a $4.5 million gift

Habitat East Central Ohio gives $100,000 to its Poland partner to help homeowners who take in Ukrainian refugees.

Washington High School construction trades students built a one-story, three-bedroom Habitat home for Kayla Newman.

Habitat for Humanity East Central Ohio has found a family for a house built by Charis Homes and Saint-Gobain North America, a materials company.

When a Northeast Ohio family received the keys to their first home Wednesday, they also unlocked what some hope is the future of affordable, sustainable housing.

Home builders in Stark County are dealing with soaring prices as the regions new housing market booms.

JACKSON TWP. – Less than two years after Henry Timken received a patent for the tapered roller bearing, his sons began searching for a location to build a factory. Gordon Mather, a salesman with Cleveland Axle Co. and a friend of H.H. Timken, invited the Timkens to Canton in 1901. Brothers H.H. and W.R. Timken liked what they saw in the city. They talked with Board of Trade leaders, and by the end of the year Timken Roller Bearing Axle Co. called Stark County home. The decision 120 years ag...

Too many children and families in our community are living in a cycle of poverty, a heartbreaking reality that was underscored in the recent Repository article "Child poverty in Stark County, Canton at crisis level." Though the facts and statistics of the article are daunting, we hold tightly to hope for our community. At Habitat for Humanity East Central Ohio, we have seen the burden families carry when the ends never seem to meet. We have seen poverty steal childhood from children who do not...