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By Cathy Clark If you shop weekday afternoons at the Acme Fresh Market on North Main St. near Applegrove, you’ve probably met Billy. Billy Dovicsak works as a grocery bagger during the week, and to say that he loves his job would be a big understatement. I interviewed Billy in the eating area at Acme [...]
By Traci Langfitt Vicki Stanley is a transfer from Allentown, Pennsylvania. Her family moved to the Ridgewood area nineteen years ago. Vicki’s younger sister and brother-in-law, both architects, were living in Akron. One of Vicki’s favorite stories is about her family making North Canton their hometown. The daily joke between Vicki and her sister was [...]
By Julie Mathie-Cross Our Town is honored to feature this month’s Meet Your Neighbor – Peggy Savage. As the Curriculum Director for North Canton City Schools, she is at the center of one of the biggest changes for the school district. She has had a major role in the curriculum, staffing and scheduling for the [...]
Jim Dansizen, a pillar of the North Canton community and a man of many words, was a hard one to talk into an interview for our “Neighbor” this month. “The paper doesn’t belong to me, it belongs to the community,” said Jim. And so my story continues, not so much about Jim, but about the [...]
Meet Your Neighbor: Bob Pattison by Kathy Belden The red and white flag that proudly flies outside of Bob Pattison’s home has been mistaken for an OSU flag. It’s not! This proud University of Nebraska Cornhusker is a long way from his roots. When I interviewed Bob, his love for his home state of Nebraska [...]
By Julie Mathie-Cross Sitting in a small office located within the district office at North Canton City Schools is a woman in charge of feeding 2400 hungry students each day. Amy Merda-Wallace feeds each elementary student for $2.35 per day, and the Middle School and High School students for $2.60. Price is not the only [...]
Meet Your Neighbor – Arlene Fouts By Julie Mathie-Cross Walking through the doors of Zion Lutheran Church, one would never guess that it is filled with preschool-aged children. The church is the home of Bixler Preschool. The children are enjoying a bit of free time before dismissal. Each child is creating, pretending, building, cleaning up [...]
by Kathy Belden Kevin Maxwell is a small town guy who has made it big. He was born in the Steubenville, Ohio area “actually Mingo Junction-population 150!” he says with a big laugh. ”My grandfather was the mayor of that small town,” he added. He spent his formative years in East Springfield, below Carrollton. An [...]
By Kathy Belden Charlotte and Jim VanVranken have lived in their home near the Fairways Golf Course for so long that the majestic trees in their front yard were mere saplings when Jim’s father planted them so many years ago. They have lived in their home since 1953 and have made several additions to accommodate [...]
By Dan Mucci North Canton’s Noah Scholl, 15, is a balloon artist. He first became interested in balloons at the tender age of four. At age six, he began balloon twisting. By age eight, he was earning money by doing balloon art for the Stark County District Library. Today, Scholl travels throughout Ohio and occasionally [...]