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Local farm rents out baby chicks before Easter

Tatum Werntz, KSTV Reporter • March 7, 2026

Pure Passions Farm on Seasons Road in Kent is offering customers a chance to foster baby chicks in their homes for 30 days. Along with four chicks, customers will also receive all the necessary equipment...

Early birds and empty baskets: FAB runs Egg-Stravaganza

Rachel McKean, Reporter • April 22, 2025

By the time Kent’s campus-wide egg hunt began Tuesday morning, the hunt was already over. Hosted by the Flash Activities Board, the “Egg-Stravaganza” promised students about 5,000 eggs scattered...

Easter lead-up gives students a way to reconnect with their religion

Andrew Bowie, Reporter • March 9, 2024

Easter has significance for many Christians as the holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The holiday is important for those of the Christian faith because it symbolizes freedom from...

Easter bunny begone: significance of Christian holy season

Alyse Riffer, Reporter • April 9, 2023

When the season of Lent ends, Christians will celebrate the resurrection of their savior during the eight-week season of Easter. The season ends with Pentecost, which marks the creation of the Christian...

Opinion: The Lord’s Passion and Easter

Alexis Wohler • April 7, 2015

God’s passion is you. God longs to have a relationship with you and all people as His children. He loved every single one of us so much that he sent his only son Jesus Christ to die on the cross for...

Kent State observes Easter with tradition and renewal

Skye McEowen • April 6, 2015

At the end of the Lenten period, a period of penance and fasting, Christians around Kent and the world observed Easter on April 5. The University Parish Newman Center served as one place of worship where...

Newman Center observes Ash Wednesday, Lent

Skye McEowen • February 18, 2015

On a snowy Ash Wednesday, worshippers flocked to the University Parish Newman Center to receive their symbolic crosses and have mass. They also began a season of prayer and penance, sitting before Father...

Ash Wednesday starts this week

Skye McEowen • February 15, 2015

This Wednesday, many members of the Catholic faith, among others, will be observing a significant holiday: Ash Wednesday.Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, the 46 days before Easter, which includes...

Pope Francis, huge crowd joyously celebrate Easter

Frances D’Emilio, Associated Press • April 20, 2014

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Marking Christianity’s most hopeful day, Pope Francis made an Easter Sunday plea for peace and dialogue in Ukraine and Syria, for an end to terrorist attacks against Christians...

Kent State students observe Easter in different ways

Ashlyne Wilson • April 20, 2014

Easter is celebrated by Christians to commemorate the death and resurrection of Christ. People of different religions and countries have varying ideas about the holiday and some with other types of traditions.Venix...