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Kenston Treasurer: Need for PI Levy ‘Not Going Away’ By Brian Doering brian@karlovecmedia.com Despite voters rejecting a fiveyear, 1.35-mill permanent improvement levy last November, Kenston Schools Treasurer Seth Cales recently said the district’s need for one remains. Cales shared a presentation with the Kenston Cales Schools Board of Education March 18 that emphasized the importance of a PI levy on capital expenditures. “This is a need that is not going away. There is the need for the PI levy still, and if we don’t have a levy in place, we will have to continue to transfer general fund money to our permanent improvement fund and use it towards our capital expenditures,” Cales said. See Kenston • Page 5
All About Feeders Focuses On Bearded Dragon Cuisine
Proposed HB 344 Would Eliminate Township Zoning
By Ann Wishart
Metzenbaum Tax Appeal Sent to Columbus
ann@karlovecmedia.com
Breeding, raising and selling roaches may seem like a dubious business, but it is one Vince Lucarelli is pursuing with fervor on Munnberry Oval in Newbury Township. The long-abandoned warehouse and office building at the corner of Kinsman Road is home to millions of dubia roaches that will provide scrumptious meals for bearded dragons — reptile pets that became popular overnight when everyone was staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic, he said during a tour of the 20,000-squarefoot building in March. See Roaches Page 4
Paul Miller, an organizer for the North Ohio Assisting Hands group of young Amish volunteers, recently told Parkman Township Trustees NOAH will be cleaning up litter along a state route in the township come September. “We had a meeting with the Ohio Department of Transportation and got the okay to do state routes,” said Miller, comparing the group’s roadside activity to a frolic. “If we get enough volunteers, we might even head up some of the township roads.” A frolic is the Amish practice of friends and neighbors getting together to help with a project too big for a family to do, such as building a
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Vince Lucarelli has no qualms about handling the dubia roaches he raises by the thousands at All About Feeders in Newbury Township. Owners of reptiles, particularly bearded dragons, buy the bugs by the hundreds to feed their voracious pets, he said. ANN WISHART/KMG
NOAH Plans Litter Frolic By Ann Wishart ann@karlovecmedia.com
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barn or a school. Last September, NOAH volunteers numbering more than 100 and cleaned up ditches along 35 miles of roads in Troy Township, he said. The plan on the last Saturday in April is to clean up both sides of state Route 528, which runs through Parkman Township. Safety for the volunteers is a prime concern, he said. Traffic on that road can be heavy and fast. The young people will wear ODOT-supplied neon vests, with half of the group starting at state Route 168 and the other half at state Route 88, facing traffic and working toward each other. “We have a safety meeting in the morning before they go out,” Miller said. See NOAH • Page 6
Chester Resident to Perform in Orchestra’s ‘The Magic Flute’ ing at Severance Music Center, but this is by far the most highstakes performance,” she said in Jade Gladue is no stranger to a March 29 interview. “That said, musical theater, nor is she unfa- I am incredibly excited. I love all miliar with the Cleveland of the support that is Orchestra, having sung in coming my way. Not only its children’s and youth has my family been supchorus for years. portive, but my friends, But, being able to perpeers and teachers are form in the orchestra’s also very proud of this production of Mozart’s accomplishment.” “The Magic Flute” is Indeed Gladue’s extaking things to a whole Gladue citement laced every different level for the 18-year-old word as she spoke about her jourChester Township resident. ney to this moment. “There are definitely nerves, “It feels like a culmination of but right now, I feel as though it's all of the work I've done for the a good amount of nerves. I am past few years. I sang with the not a stranger to singing with the Cleveland Orchestra Children's Cleveland Orchestra or performSee Gladue • Page 5
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