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The charity Perry Helping Perry distributed 71 donated bikes Saturday to 28 families in Perry Township, some who experienced job losses in 2020.

Louisville City Schools was seeking an additional levy, while Jackson Local was asking for a substitute levy and Canton Local was seeking a renewal.

After a high-turnout presidential election in November, a far smaller number of voters are expected to cast ballots in Tuesdays primary in partisan city council contests and on proposed township, village and school tax increases. More than three in four registered voters in Stark County, more than 191,000 people, voted in November. Thats almost certainly not going to happen Tuesday. The last non-presidential primary took place in May 2019. The turnout then was less than 15%. Fewer than 36,500 v...

The Stark County Board of Elections will be using 16-year-old touchscreen voting machines in the May 4 primary while most of the state uses more modern equipment. Most Ohio counties bought new voting equipment in 2019 with the state funding much of the purchase. The Stark County Board of Elections wanted to first see what the other counties experienced. Now the election board is mired in a legal battle with Stark County commissioners over its plan to buy Dominion ImageCast X touchscreen ...

CANTON – Last year, restaurants had to survive stay-at-home orders and having their dining rooms shut down for more than two months due to the pandemic. And when the state allowed them to reopen, they had to weather mandated curfews, capacity restrictions and a loss of business due to patrons concerned about the risks of contracting COVID while dining out. Now, with many adults vaccinated for COVID, customers are flocking back to area dining rooms and outdoor restaurant patios, increasing...

CANTON — Stark County Recorder Jamie Walters accused his predecessor Rick Campbell of failing to make a required third-quarter $500,000 payment to the states housing trust fund by the required deadline, costing the county about $5,000. Walters remarks came Tuesday during an update to the county commissioners about his first few months since he was sworn in on Jan. 4. Commissioner Janet Weir Creighton, a Republican, asked whether the missed payment was due to the election in November, chang...

Setting up a national railway safety team By Robert Wang 魯伯非 Within a few short years, the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) has experienced two major train crashes — the 2018 derailment of a Puyuma Express train and that of a Taroko Express train on April 2. These two crashes killed a total of 68 people. Putting aside the question of who should resign, the Executive Yuan should quickly establish a “national TRA safety team” along the lines of the “national mask team” that w...

The elections board indicated it is considering legal action against commissioners decision on Wednesday. The Board of Elections announced Friday it will meet in a closed-door session at 2:30 p.m. Monday apparently to discuss whether it will ask a judge to reverse the decision. In a statement issued in response Friday afternoon, the Stark County commissioners office, said, "It is disappointing that anyone is threatening lawsuits that waste taxpayer money. It is also unfortunate that the B...

Stark County commissioners reject Dominion voting machine purchase CANTON  The Stark County commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday afternoon to reject funding the purchase of 1,450 new Dominion touch-screen voting machines. Commissioners Bill Smith, Richard Regula and Janet Weir Creighton, all Republicans, voted against accepting a recommendation by the Stark County Board of Elections to fund the purchase. None of them commented during the teleconference meeting. All of them said from Dece...

Stark County commissioners expect to make a decision by March 15 on whether to approve buying Dominion voting machines for the general election in November, said Commissioner Bill Smith. A vote could take place on Wednesday at the three-member boards weekly teleconference meeting, he said. It would be up to Stark County Administrator Brant Luther by Tuesday whether to put the item on the Wednesday agenda. Smith said he has not yet decided if hell vote to approve the purchase. Commissioners ha...