CANTON Members of the Stark County Board of Elections want to know when county commissioners will decide whether to approve the proposed $6.5 million purchase of Dominion voting machines.
And the agency s chairman said the board will take legal action if commissioners keep putting off a decision.
After a 38-minute executive session Tuesday to discuss the purchase of property for public purposes, Board Chairman Samuel Ferruccio instructed the board staff to ask commissioners for a firm (decision) date on the voting machines. Then he said the board, which unanimously approved the purchase Dec. 9, would consider its legal options going forward.
When asked later if the subject of the executive session was the voting machines, Ferruccio said, You can read between the lines, but it s an executive session.”
NIMISHILLEN TWP. Playful pups hoping for new homes have a brand new space at the Stark County Humane Society.
Executive Director Jackie Godbey recently opened the new wing of the county agency s building at 5100 Peach St. NE in the Louisville area.
Mixed-breed dogs, Ruby and Rocki, who have been waiting for homes over the winter, and Willie and Buckeye, waiting since sometime in January, couldn t be happier.
Ruby and Willie wagged their tails as they walked through a dog-sized door that connects their double kennels inside the new wing. Rocki and Buckeye, waiting in single-kennel spaces, cheerfully greeted everyone walking by.
WOOSTER The second attempt to develop a residential subdivision on a parcel of farmland on Melrose Drive suffered a setback when the Wooster Planning Commission voted 4-2 against recommending the project’s rezoning to City Council.
Lemmon Development, a North Canton-based construction firm, is seeking rezoning of the 22-acre plot at 4677 Melrose Drive from R-1 single family residential to R-3 attached housing for a planned 152-unit single story apartment complex.
At the Jan. 7 meeting, Planning Commission Chair Chuck Armbruster and members Kyle Adams, Grant Mason and Mark Weaver opposed the rezoning recommendation while Vice Chair Mike Steiner and Sheree Brownson were in favor.
North Canton company Area Wide Protective is sold to a New York private equity firm
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Fast-growing Area Wide Protective (AWP), a provider of traffic-control services and equipment to electric and gas utilities as well as to telecommunications and infrastructure customers, has a new owner.
The North Canton-based company on Wednesday, Dec. 23, announced in a news release that it has been acquired by Kohlberg & Co., a private equity firm headquartered in New York City.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The seller was Cleveland private equity firm Riverside Co. Riverside partner Ryan Richards said in a news release about the sale, During our hold, Riverside worked closely with management to execute an aggressive organic growth plan as well as complete 11 strategic acquisitions. Riverside acquired AWP in June 2015. It did not disclose its return on the Riverside investment.