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11/24/2025

Hey Akron, happy Thanksgiving week! — Let's start the week off with something fun. Are you ready to find your perfect neighborhood match?

Take our quiz: “Find your perfect Akron neighborhood.”

Remember our "Inside Akron" 24-part profile series? We covered them all. Now, we’re turning it into something a little more interactive. https://signalnews.info/48vMfT3

11/24/2025

Morning, Akron! Know any local organizations in need of volunteers? Please tag them.
Lol trying to see something.

11/21/2025

Trailhead Community Health Foundation will begin with at least $15 million. The new leader of a foundation formed from the sale of Summa Health is the current director of government affairs and health policy for the hospital system.

Tracy Carter was selected as the first president and CEO of the Trailhead Community Health Foundation of Greater Akron, the group said.

11/21/2025

🆗 ❗ Who makes some of the best sweet potato pie (sorry, pumpkin) in the Akron area? How about mac and cheese? Green bean casserole? Sugar cookies? We need your help building a community recipe collection — filled with holiday dishes we can all savor. https://signalnews.info/4850lcQ

THIS IS NOT A CONTEST, but we plan to feature a select few of your recipes.

Send us your favorite side dishes, drinks, entrees or desserts by Friday, Dec. 5. Know a really good amateur cook? You can nominate them too.

Submit your holiday recipe! Got a holiday dish or drink your family begs for every year? Signal Akron is building a community collection — recipes that bring families together. We want the sides, drinks, entrées or desserts that mean the most to you.  Tell us what makes your holiday recipe speci...

11/20/2025

Jo White’s home-based business is one of eight providers now supported by the Unified Early Learning System. The goal? Better prepare Akron’s youngest learners for kindergarten and beyond. “You don’t enter this field for the money,” Kemp said. “You enter it for a reason — for the kids, the families.”

Jo White's child care center in Akron blends Circle Time, walks and hands-on learning as a city program hopes to ease her paperwork load.

11/20/2025

“All I can say is, everybody get CPR certified,” Molnar said. “You don’t know if it’s going to be your family member or your friend that is going to need it. The quicker you do it, the better outcomes you have.”

Find out where to get certified course in Akron to learn CPR to be ready in case you need to spring into action like Firestone Park resident

11/20/2025

We love Archie, but he's still a little scary.... ☃️ Anyway. Akron’s Winterblast season kicks off Nov. 28! Grab the family and meet us in downtown Akron! Enjoy ice skating, ice bumper cars and the annual Santa parade at Lock 3.

Downtown Akron kicks off the holiday season with the annual Santa Parade, ice skating, Archie the Snowman, a holiday market and more.

11/19/2025

The 100-plus-year-old coach house at Akron Woman’s City Club in West Akron, home to theater companies for decades, underwent a $30,000 renovation this spring. Makeshift Theater funded the work from grants and donations from local supporters. After the building sat dormant for nearly three years, the rehab began in May with a day of cleaning.

The 100-plus-year-old carriage house at Akron Woman’s City Club underwent a $30,000 renovation this spring.

11/19/2025

🌲 Funded by a budget allocation of $750,000, city crews began work in early spring and planted 908 trees between March and May. The second phase of planting is underway now, with the final 900 trees scheduled for installation throughout November. 🌲

Officials set a goal of adding 1,800 trees to the tree canopy this year and through two programs were able to surpass that number.

11/19/2025

An Akron Police lieutenant is taking the City of Akron to court in order to stop a Nov. 19 captain’s promotional examination the city is not allowing him to take. He alleges the city’s decision is based on a policy that is disproportionately applied to minority candidates.

Lt. Michael Murphy alleges a city promotion exam policy is disproportionately applied to minority candidates.

11/18/2025

Holiday vibes incoming! Weathervane Playhouse “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” opens this Thursday and runs until December 21st! For the 21st time, Weathervane presents the biblical story of Joseph, who is sold into slavery by his family but eventually rises to a position of power in Egypt and helps save the country during a famine.

Signal Akron has rounded up more than 20 holiday events and bazaars happening in and around Akron from now to New Year’s.

11/18/2025

Ok Garfield! TASTE THIS: Recipe developed by three student chefs is a nod to the classic American nachos — substituting meat for a sweet treat.

Student chefs at Garfield CLC created apple nachos during an event which showcased career pathways available at the Akron school.