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The independent news website of The Kent Stater & KSTV

KentStater

Voters fill the poll booths at the Wellness Center on Tuesday Nov. 3, 2015.

Kent voters approve four of five charter amendments

Rachel Godin and Matt Merchant November 4, 2015

The Portage County Board of Elections posted results early Wednesday morning after a server malfunction Tuesday night.The ballot included five amendments to the Kent City Charter, which is comparable to...

Issue 21

Kent’s ‘Community Bill of Rights’ fails to pass

Christina Bucciere November 4, 2014

Issue 21 failed to pass, with 53.77 percent of voters voting ‘no,’ according to The Portage County Board of Elections.Issue 21 is a proposed amendment to the Kent city charter that would have guaranteed...

Our View: Being informed during election season

KS Editors September 28, 2014

The Kent community is known for being green. We are a tree city and Kent State is a Tree Campus USA, the architects of the university’s new buildings are striving for Leadership in Energy & Environmental...

Members of the Kent Environmental Right Group, including Bonny Esparza, Kathy Schuman and Lee Brooker, attend a community event for speaker Gwen Fischer of Concerned Citizen Ohio on Sept. 15, 2014 at the Kent Free Library.

What the frack?! Ballot issue divides activists, city leaders

Matthew Merchant September 24, 2014

Come November, the city of Kent and Kent State University could begin a drastic social and environmental change in two possible ways.The first, in the eyes of city law director James Silver, would involve...