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Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski is one of the first in Ohio to enter an agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce federal immigration law. Last year, Zuchowski garnered national attention after calling immigrants “human locusts” in a Facebook post. | Courtesy Portage County Sheriff's Office

Portage County sheriff burns local newspaper

Nikki Gasiewski, Reporter June 2, 2025

Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski shared a Facebook post to his personal page on May 9 with a stack of May 5 editions of The Portager burned in a fire pit. “It starts out like paper...but burns...

Student, alumnus create start-ups online

Alexis Wohler November 24, 2015

Kent State has had its share of entrepreneurs – people who develop an idea and do whatever it takes to bring it to fruition. Carleton Whitmore and Ben Wolford provide examples of Kent State entrepreneurs...

KSU Alumnus launches online magazine Latterly

Julia Kerchenski November 19, 2014

Kent State alumnus Ben Wolford and his wife, Christina Asencio, launched the first issue of Latterly, a community-supported online magazine on Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 9:45 a.m. The response: more than 120...

Guest column: Daily or not, Stater still the Stater

Ben Wolford September 14, 2014

When I graduated from a Portage County high school in 2007, I knew exactly what I wanted to do next: get a job writing for the Daily Kent Stater.Ohio University had its splashy E.W. Scripps School of Journalism...

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