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The independent news website of The Kent Stater & KSTV

KentStater

The independent news website of The Kent Stater & KSTV

KentStater

Current downtown of Kent, Ohio on March 2, 2020. 

How improvements made to Downtown Kent affect students today

Theresa Lovrak Reporter March 2, 2020

The year is 2002. As a college student at Kent State you have just a few options when it comes to entertainment downtown, and even fewer if you aren’t twenty-one. “The student body were the people...

The expected look of the Hasawai Building. 

6-Story Multipurpose Building Comes to Kent

Theresa Lovrak Reporter January 31, 2020

Scheduled to come to Kent in the summer of 2021 will be an all-new multipurpose building. This new project will be six stories tall and sit at the corner of Erie St and Franklin Ave. What was previously...

City Council approves Tobacco 21 ordinance

Chris Spegal July 12, 2018

City Council approved the Tobacco 21 ordinance Wednesday, which will change the age restriction on purchasing tobacco products from 18 to 21 years of age.Jeff Neistadt, the health commissioner of the Health...

Kent citizens discuss marijuana legalization, stray cats at city council meeting

Elizabeth Randolph May 26, 2015

Kent citizens spoke to City Council at a public hearing before the council meeting Wednesday about public opinion on the legalization of marijuana and stray cats in the city.Kent State chemical physics...