Louisville Library s Brock Hutchison shares his impactful reads
Brock Hutchison is the Library Director at the Louisville Public Library. He is a graduate of Carrollton High School, Muskingum University and Kent State University. Brock is married to Lindsey Hutchison, and they have one son, Luke.
Brock holds a master’s degree in Library and Information Science and a Commercial Driver’s License. His background is working in libraries, and he came to Louisville after working for the Stark County District Library and the Licking County Library in Newark, Ohio.
He also is a member of the Louisville Rotary Club and co-hosts a weekly podcast, interviewing local movers and shakers, called What’s Up Stark.
She thought he was a salesman. I told him, You ll have to wait, she said, laughing at the memory.
That s because Beck probably is the most unlikely person to own The Beauty Spot, a downtown Canton hair, makeup, and fashion store at 132 Fifth St. NW.
Beck bought the business and building, formerly known as C&J Enterprises, from the late Jay Chon and his wife, Tony, in 2019.
Beck is big on downtown Canton. He has fond memories of a lively downtown, which included the Arcade, especially after he became old enough to read the sign at Beck s Fish. My mother told me she used to push me in my stroller past this building, he said.
The nation had not yet been catapulted into World War II.
In Youngstown, there was squabbling over accusations of voter fraud. British teenagers boys and girls were gearing up for military service. In Canton, Lillian Herman, the 47-year-old wife of Trinity Lutheran Church Pastor E.C. Herman, died tragically from a cerebral hemorrhage.
That same day, the city also received a new resident, Don Stock.
To mark his 80th birthday, Stock s granddaughter Jessica Morford bound 80 front pages of the Canton Repository into book form one Jan. 29 edition of the front page from each year from the past last 80 years.
Stock, who shares a birthday with President William McKinley, said his granddaughter, who grew up in Shaker Heights and now lives in Denver, surprised him with the book in February.
CANTON – One by one, famed and best-selling author R.L. Stine fielded a reporter s questions at the pace of a fan quickly turning the pages of one of his Goosebumps books.
Why does he make the time to speak to groups like the Stark County District Library? (An online program via Zoom is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Thursday as part of the library s Virtual Speaking of Books Author Series. )
Talking to fans and audiences is the fun part of his job, Stine enthused, although he misses the opportunity to experience in-person the reactions of children and adults. A positive, however, is the ability to reach more people across the country.
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Stark County area libraries plan to keep copies of controversial Dr. Seuss books that include racially and ethnically insensitive characters in public circulation.
Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the company that protects the legacy of Dr. Seuss, announced earlier this month they would cease publication of the books, which contain hurtful and wrong portrayals of characters.
Local library officials said they want to be sensitive to everyone in the community. They also believe there is value in those books remaining in circulation.
At the Stark County District Library, some of the titles in question are part of the library s collection, said Stephanie Cargill, district communications director.