By JEFF VAN LOON
Medina County SWCD
Any fast growing community with subdivisions, commercial and industrial site development creates a variety of earth moving activities. Over the years, local, state and federal jurisdictions have worked with the development community, the construction community and the consulting engineers to figure out ways to achieve good soundbest management practices on […]

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By MIKE MILLER
OSU Extension Medina County
Ethanol-based corn may be getting a bum rap, in light of the growing global food crisis, but the biofuel does have value, especially when produced using the right agricultural technique.
Randall Reeder, an Ohio State University Extension agricultural engineer, said that growing corn for ethanol could be argued as justifiable, especially […]

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By KRISTEN NOWAK WINN
Accent Editor
This year on Earth Day, I pledged to buy nonessentials secondhand for three months.
I’m already slightly past the two-month mark, and surprisingly, it’s been easier than I thought.
That’s not to say I haven’t been tempted to just run to the store to buy the flower pots I wanted or a chair […]

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By JUDY A. TOTTS
Home and Garden Editor
Bugs and beasties usually don’t come to mind when you picture the gardens of Stan Hywet, but this year they popped up all over the grounds, thanks to artist-in-residence P.R. Miller and the students from four northeast Ohio schools. Miller, an industrial artist dedicated to sculpting from castoffs and […]

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Quaker Square
135 S. Broadway, Akron
330-253-5970
History and the future merge at Quaker Square Inn at the University of Akron. The square, built in 1936 as a storage facility for the then Akron-based Quaker Oats Company, now serves as a hotel and as a residence hall for the University of Akron. Its 36 grain silos stand at […]

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Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, a historic house museum and country estate located at 714 N. Portage Path in Akron, packs plenty of programs and events into the seasons. The hall is open for tours from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.
The gardens and grounds stay open until 6:30 p.m. The estate […]

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By JUDY A. TOTTS
Editorial staff
AKRON — Visitors to the Akron Art Museum will be able to do a little California dreaming at the exhibit of paintings, furnishings and decorative objects, California as Muse: The Art of Arthur and Lucia Mathews, which runs through Sept. 7. He painted allegorical murals. She captured the innocence of children […]

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By Angela Huston
Special to The Gazette
On June 12, tours were conducted in the afternoon and again in the evening for groups of people interested in touring WRH Health System’s Founder’s Hall third floor renovation, which now showcases the DaVita Wadsworth Dialysis Clinic, Excellence in Eyecare, WRH Women’s Center and a Centering Pregnancy Program, one […]

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By Kristen Nowak Winn
Accent Editor
The second you step into the Manor House at Stan Hywet in Akron, your heart skips a beat as you admire the view across the room overlooking Cuyahoga Valley.
The position of the glass was so carefully articulated by architect Charles Schneider that on the summer solstice, the sun sets directly in […]

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Editor’s note: Earlier this year, The Gazette conducted an informal survey of community and government leaders and asked them who they thought were the most influential people in Medina County. We narrowed the list down to 10 based on the number of votes each received, with No. 1 garnering the most. In the following days, […]

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