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Youtube On February 28, 1996, WAKC-TV was sold and newscasts immediately ceased, ending four decades of serving Summit County viewers. On the 25th anniversary of the end of WAKC, an encore presentation of a staff reunion from 2016 Twenty-five years ago, Akron lost its only local TV newsroom. After four decades of struggling to compete with Clevelands TV stations — including fellow ABC affiliate, WEWS — WAKC-TV was bought by Paxson Communications, which quickly dropped its local programming....

Article content Military bands now march in step with Shaun Antler’s efforts to document Sault Ste. Marie’s musical history. The stage director of Rotaryfest’s Stage 1 has added Royal Canadian Legion Drum and Trumpet Band, 49th Field Regiment Pipes and Drums, Sea Cadets Navy League Band and 97th Regiment of Rifles to her lengthy list of acts that now tops 1,820. Antler added about 100 more entries to her research efforts in the final weeks before a Feb. 1 deadline. She plans to donate h...