As summer nears and calendars begin filling with weekend getaways, community festivals, and family road trips, it’s the perfect time to recognize a vital force driving local prosperity: tourism. While often associated with leisure, hospitality, and scenic views, the tourism industry is far ...

Apparently, the grass in Belmont has completely recovered from last year’s drought. Nobody was happier than I was to see the grass everywhere turn green again this spring. The dry, brown, straw-like stuff that covered lawns across the region by last fall was pretty concerning. Not only ...

Recently, I had a conversation with a friend from India. Shale Crescent USA is working with his company now for over seven years. They expanded to the Ohio Valley and have already created hundreds of construction jobs. They will be operational in the near future. I asked, “What has been ...

Well, we did it again — my husband, Mike, and I took a few days off from work for our annual spring project kickoff. We jumped in with both feet, working on everything from painting to installing vinyl post wraps, planting flowers and using stone to freshen up our landscaping. The front ...

Right now, California faces rotating power outages previously only seen in third world countries. Pretty soon, they’ll be coming to Ohio too – unless we do something about it now. Fortunately, President Donald Trump took a major step earlier this month to address this looming crisis by ...

Monday we flew back into Canton-Akron Airport from our family trip to Florida. Our rental car in Florida was a Toyota RAV 4. We loved it. The agent at CAK offered a RAV 4, I grabbed it. When I tried to start the vehicle nothing happened. The lights on the dash came on but the engine wouldn’t ...