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Smyrna/Clayton Sun-Times A proposal for a new library in Smyrna would provide almost four times more space for about $25 more per year to the average homeowner’s property tax bill. Advocates for the project, the Friends of the Duck Creek Regional Library, have secured a 99-year lease on town property on South Main Street that includes the parking lot at Foxwell Street and Dwight Avenue. “We needed to get that lease signed,” said Joanne Masten, the president of the Friends group. “We have a ways to go, but now we have the location.” Masten is also the Kent County Levy Court First Di...

YOUNGSTOWN — The mystery of the body found in a Westlake Terrace apartment in 1995 has been solved with dental evidence showing that the body is that of America Williams, 30. Detective Dave Sweeney of the Youngstown Police Department and Theresa Gaetano, an investigator with the Mahoning County Coroner’s Office, confirmed Monday that the final piece to solving the mystery was obtaining photographs taken while Williams was alive that showed her teeth. The photographs were taken to Robert C. Johnson and Erik R. Johnson of Boardman, both forensic odontologists who were able to determine that...

My Wife’s (unlikely) Lovers The amusing history of an 1891 painting of 42 cats If you have not yet seen Carl Kahler’s Commissioned in 1891 by millionaire and philanthropist Kate Birdsall Johnson, the work features her 42 Persian and Angora cats. A mix of kittens and cats stand poised on Rococo furniture while others are sprawled against a lavish velvet curtain. Painted by Austrian artist Carl Kahler, the work took three years to complete. According to the Portland Art Museum, this is supposedly because he spent months studying them in preparatory sketches and paintings. The oil painting,...

Smyrna/Clayton Sun-Times Development plans that started in 2004 for a field on the southwest side of Smyrna are moving ahead 17 years later, but with significantly more homes than the original proposal and possibly land for a new school. The developers, Liborio Investments III LLC, requested increasing the previously recorded 430-lot Graceville subdivision to 709 lots on 115.42 acres on the west side of Rabbit Chase Lane, between Sunnyside and Brenford roads. The neighborhood will include 314 single-family homes and 395 townhouses. Mayor Robert C. Johnson said he voted in favor of the plan at...