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Blogs:
Akrocentric:
Will Akron Lose its Marbles? America's Oldest Still-Standing Toy Factory is in Akron
Akron Aeros:
Newsom saves ninth in as many tries as Aeros top Thunder
Akron Zips:
Zips offer scholarship to Georgia linebacker
All Da King's Men:
Obama's Shocking Ignorance
Balanced Ledger:
Spring football
Blog of Mass Destruction:
For Mothers Before They Were Against Mothers
BokBluster:
Willie Horton of Gitmo
Browns Bulletin:
Taped signals saga involved the Browns
Cleveland Browns:
McGinest's farewell tour
Cleveland Cavaliers:
Big Ben gets well, so do Cavs
Kent State Sports:
Sonnanstine wins four in April
Ohio Politics:
McCain Is In A Tough Spot
Ohio Travels with Betty:
Our family will visit Columbus this summer - need suggestions on things to do.
Olympic Dreams - Running:
Oregon Twilight
Patrick McManamon:
The key to game 4 isn't real complex …
Sound Check:
Black Keys play "secret" Myspace Show at Beachland
Tia's Trends:
Whitehall Jewelers CEO to Retire
The Heldenfiles:
"Survivor" Season Finale
The Sports Blitz:
Cleveland Browns - They Love Them! They Really, Really Love Them!
Varsity Letters:
North, Firestone win Auten track and field titles
Books
Little Catania: Recollections of Life in Coal Patch America by Macedonia author C.V. Miani is an epic family story spanning the years from the early 20th century, when the young Valente family arrives from Sicily to make a life in America, to the early 1950s.
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Young dancer Heinz Poll soars above the landscape at the Berlin Zoo in 1949. (Courtesy of Barbara Schubert)
Ohio Ballet co-founder Heinz Poll shares candid, humorous tales in memoir
Growing up in a strict German family that sold fruits and vegetables and considered classical music to be ''heavy'' listening, Heinz Poll stood out. His parents wanted him to go into the family business; he wanted to be an actor.
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BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
National Geographic's new World Atlas for Young Explorers (National Geographic Society; 192 pages; $24.95) is way more than a bunch of maps. Filled with the world famous photographs National Geographic is known for, the atlas is described as a ''window on your planet.''
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BOOKTALK:
All is not well among villagers in 'Prairie Fever'
Poet to read from work that spans Katrina, ancient China
Evangelism runs through mom's story
Akron pastor, dog offer fanciful way to present columns
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Lifestyle Highlights
EDUCATION
Akron group pleads for school renovations
Historic association seeks to preserve 11 buildings
