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‘Updates from Lunch Lady Land’: Child nutrition workers make sure Akron students eat, even when the job puts them at risk

September 2nd, 2020

Reporting, writing and photos by H.L. Comeriato The chocolate milk is a hit. From kindergarten to senior year, Akron Public Schools students love those little paper cartons. But while onsite learni...

Meet the Akronites getting menstrual hygiene products to everyone

August 17th, 2020

words by Allyson Smith, illustration by Chris Harvey Aunt Flo, “on the rag,” “that special time of the month,” period. All of these are slang for something many people experience every single month. T...

Akron Public Schools has 13 police officers in schools. Here’s what they do.

August 17th, 2020

words by Noor Hindi, illustration by Chris Harvey A week after the murder of George Floyd, the Minneapolis school board voted to end its contract with the city police department, effectively removing police...

Akron Public Schools to launch College and Career Academies this fall

July 29th, 2019

Editor's note (March 5, 2020): On March 4, David Skelly was removed from his classroom. According to Akron Public Schools, he has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. The investiga...

Forty years ago, Akron parents, educators and organizers saved Robinson Elementary — and nearly integrated Akron schools by court order

April 22nd, 2019

by H.L. Comeriato with research support from Salvatore Comeriato In a modest brick ranch, in a quiet neighborhood, Mrs. Doris Bell pads across a carpeted living room. She’s wearing a pair of pink polka-dott...

Into the Muck | Buchtel students take project-based learning to Panzner Wetland Wildlife Reserve

December 9th, 2015

by Daniel Whitaker About a quarter mile down a narrow gravel drive somewhere in Copley, Ohio, groups of kids are scattered about a 104 acre plot of land. Some follow a guide, hiking along the tree line of a de...

'If This Wallpaper Could Talk'

Muralist Caleb Aronhalt brings ‘minions’ to surprising places

In new book, David Giffels travels Ohio to understand the U.S.

The Nightlight to host outdoor film series at Stan Hywet

How To Akron: Growing and supporting local food

Artisan Coffee celebrates five years in Ellet

Akron-born Rachel Cargle opens Elizabeth’s Bookshop & Writing Centre at The Well

International Jerk brings something new to Summit Lake

The Insane Clown Posse plays Kent

Brian Lisik’s ‘Gudbye Stoopid Whirled’ wasn’t supposed to be about the pandemic — but it is

Longtime rocker Harvey Gold is ‘all the versions’ of himself on new album

‘I can be your Antidote at the end of a hard day:’ Madison Cummins releases sophomore album

How would 9-year-old me have survived a pandemic in 1984?

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