Downtown Kent’s 11th annual Ghost Walk drew in an eager crowd of participants Saturday night. The walk is Kent’s warm welcome to the October month leading up to Halloween.The Ghost Walk starts with...
Local business owners have started seeing the changes Kent City Council promised the new parking meters would bring to business since their installation in May 2015.Bridget Susel, the director of the Kent...
Main Street Kent’s fifth annual Oktoberfest was such a hit that many vendors found themselves running out of food early.“I was surprised at just how many people came out this year,” said Phil Everett,...
Last weekend the 23rd Kent Heritage Festival took over downtown as the community gathered to celebrate Kent.During the event, which ran from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., there was local live music and entertainment...
Each Saturday morning, downtown Kent is home to Haymaker Farmers’ Market, a community that thrives on healthy, homegrown eats and friendly faces. Andrew Rome, the market’s manager, said most of the...
Downtown Kent placed a spotlight on local artists during the second installment of the Art Walk Friday.The First Friday Art Walk event allowed local artists a chance to expand their audience to the greater...
The number of women business owners in the United States has been steadily rising since 1997. According to the National Association of Women Business Owners, women own more than 11.6 million American...
There is a vacant brick building on the corner of West Erie Street and Franklin Avenue in downtown Kent.On the side facing Erie, a green awning hangs from the facade advertising “Ramella’s Pizzeria:...
Members of the Group Ten Gallery in downtown Kent will be sharing the space with a total of 30 artists until March 24 for their biggest Members and Friends show to date.The Members and Friends show is...
A pirate radio station manifested on the second floor of the Zephyr Tavern Wednesday night, as a sociology professor aimed to broadcast a strong message of D.I.Y ideology to the his community and the world....
A downtown Kent bar owner filed a complaint Dec. 15 in the Ohio Court of Claims against Kent State and one of its student-run magazines, Fusion.Matthew Guska, one of the co-owners of 157 Lounge on S. Water...
Half of a gyro, two quarters glued to the sidewalk and three broken glass bottles were the only things members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. didn’t pick up during their Main Street cleanup efforts...
