Summit County

Cleveland tourism leaders say the draft helped bring us one step closer to getting back to normal after the pandemic; six seniors at Walsh Jesuit High School won’t graduate this spring after an alleged assault during a party at a Silver Lake home in late March; Wisconsin-based home improvement chain Menards has won approval to build another new store in the area, this one off of state route 18 at the Medina/Summit County line; and more stories.

The Summit County Health Department will host a series of pop-up vaccine clinics beginning Monday through May 15; Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther has asked the Department of Justice for an investigation into the city’s police department following a series of police killings of Black people; Kent State University is offering COVID-19 vaccines at the campus health center starting Friday; and more stories.

For two weeks starting May 3, the clinics will be spread throughout the county.

Gov. Mike DeWine says fully vaccinated Ohioans must no longer quarantine themselves if they're exposed to someone with the coronavirus; the Ohio Supreme Court has ordered Secretary of State Frank LaRose to reappoint Summit County GOP chair Bryan Williams to the board of elections; and more stories.

County officials say the vaccination effort will continue despite the switch in shots.

County Public Health Commissioner Donna Skoda says she's still concerned about community spread, even as more people are getting vaccinated.

Akron METRO will offer free transportation to the site which plans to operate three to four days a week, administering 5,000 doses.

The legal battle between Summit County Republican Party chair Bryan Williams and Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose is intensifying; Summit County health officials are still working to get a mass vaccination clinic set-up at the county fairgrounds ahead of its tentative Monday opening; the mass vaccination site at the Wolstein Center in downtown Cleveland is getting $8.7 million dollars from The EMA; and more stories.

The state health department approved Summity County's COVID-19 mass vaccination site move from the Chapel Hill Mall to the Summit County Fairgrounds.

Median gross rent in Akron is higher than every city in Ohio except for Columbus.