Kent, Ohio City of Kent, Ohio Downtown Kent 2013.JPG Franklin Hotel Dix Stadium 2012.JPG Kent Roosevelt front 2.jpg Kent Hall 2015 Downtown Kent Cuyahoga River Kent 2012.JPG Top from left: old Erie Depot and Star of the West mill, Franklin Hotel, Dix Stadium, Theodore Roosevelt High School, Kent Hall, Main Street Bridge and arch dam, Cuyahoga River Official seal of Kent Kent is positioned in the US Kent - Kent Named for Marvin Kent Kent is a town/city in the U.S.
State of Ohio and the biggest city in Portage County.
Part of the Connecticut Western Reserve, Kent was settled in 1805 and was known for many years as Franklin Mills.
With the diminish of the canal and the emergence of the barns , the town became the home of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad maintenance shops through the influence of Marvin Kent.
In 1864 the town was retitled Kent with respect to and in gratitude for Marvin Kent's accomplishments.
Today Kent is a college town best known as the home of the chief campus of Kent State University, established in 1910, and as the site of the 1970 Kent State shootings.
Historically a manufacturing center, education is the city's biggest economic zone with Kent State University the city's, and one of the region's, biggest employers.
The Kent City School District and the Kent Free Library furnish additional education opportunities and resources.
Many of Kent's demographic elements are influenced by the existence of the university, especially the median age, median income, and those living below the poverty level.
The town/city is governed by a council-manager fitness with a town/city manager, a nine-member town/city council, and a mayor.
Kent has nearly 20 parks and preserves and hosts a number of annual celebrations including ones related to Earth Day, folk music, and the U.S.
In addition to the Kent State athletic teams, the town/city also hosts a number of amateur and small-town sporting affairs at various times amid the year.
Kent is part of the Cleveland-Akron media market and is the town/city of license for three small-town airways broadcasts and three tv stations and includes the county-wide affiliates for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
As the home of the Davey Tree Expert Company, Kent is known as "The Tree City" while inhabitants are referred to as "Kentites".
Main article: History of Kent, Ohio As part of the Connecticut Western Reserve, the region was divided into survey townships in 1798 and almost all of what is now Kent was originally part of Town 3 Range 9, which would eventually be known as Franklin Township. Aaron Olmsted, a wealthy Connecticut merchant, had purchased the 16,000-acre (6,500 ha) township and titled it for his son Aaron Franklin Olmsted. As a result, an industrialized and company region was established along the east side of the river in what is now downtown Kent.
In 1863 the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad was constructed through Franklin Mills, due largely to the accomplishments of small-town businessman Marvin Kent, son of Zenas Kent.
Marvin Kent had started his own barns company, the Franklin and Warren Railroad, in 1851 after Franklin Mills, already home to a several Kent family ventures and properties, was bypassed by the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad that same year.
Kent was also prosperous in getting the village titled as the locale of the barns 's maintenance yards and shops in 1864.
The shops would open in 1865 and the barns would play an meaningful part of Kent's trade and evolution through the early 20th century before the shops were completely shut down in 1930.
To honor Marvin Kent, the village was retitled Kent in 1864, although this change was not official until the village was incorporated on May 6, 1867. John Davey came to Kent in 1881 as head grounds keeper at Standing Rock Cemetery, and planted a several trees, landscaped the cemetery, and performed experiments on trees.
The accomplishments of Davey and the existence of Davey Tree led to the establishment of "The Tree City" as a nickname for Kent, which is reflected in the city's seal. The business continues to be headquartered in Kent and serves as the city's biggest private employer. Lowry Hall, one of the initial campus buildings of Kent State University After a fire finished the Seneca Chain Company in 1909, one of the city's chief industries at the time, town/city leaders created the Kent Board of Trade in 1910, a forerunner to the Chamber of Commerce.
The new Board was prosperous later that year in having Kent chose out of twenty northeastern Ohio metros/cities as the site of a new teacher training college, which became known as the "Kent State Normal School". The site for the school was on 53 acres (21 ha) of territory donated by William S.
Kent, son of Marvin Kent, on what was then the easterly edge of town.
By 1929 the school was retitled Kent State College after the establishment of a college of liberal arts and degrees in the arts and sciences and in 1935 was retitled Kent State University after it was given authorization to grant advanced graduate degrees.
The bill giving Kent State college status was signed into law by Ohio governor and Kent native Martin L.
Davey, son of tree surgeon John Davey. During the 1950s and 1960s the expansion of Kent State University combined with the effects of suburbanization resulted in momentous population expansion for the city, rising from just over 12,000 inhabitants at the 1950 census to over 28,000 by 1970. Black squirrels were brought to the ground from Canada in 1961 by Kent State University head groundskeeper Larry Woodell.
In early May 1970, protests began on the ground of Kent State University over the United States' invasion of Cambodia in the Vietnam War.
These protests and demonstrations, which encompassed rioting in downtown Kent on May 2, culminated in the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970, where four students were killed and nine were wounded by the Ohio Army National Guard. Several memorials have been placed at the site over the years and commemorations have been held annually since 1971.
In 1995, Kent received nationwide attention when the city's water was titled "Best Tasting Municipality Water" at the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting.
Since then, Kent has placed in the top five a total of six times with the most recent being a fifth-place finish in 2011. In 2003, the 1836 arch dam was bypassed to meet water character standards set by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
The first of these was the Phoenix Project, a evolution privately financed by Kent resident Ron Burbick that renovated and period a section of commercial space along East Main Street. Included in the universal was assembly of a pedestrian alleyway lined with small shops, eventually known as Acorn Alley, which opened in 2009.
New offices for Ametek and the Davey Tree Expert Company opened in late 2012 along with a several new small businesses on the first floors of each building. The hotel, directed by Kent State University, opened in June 2013 and the new parking garage, directed by the Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority (PARTA) opened April 30, 2013, as the Kent Central Gateway. In addition to parking, the facility functions as PARTA's chief bus transfer station and has storefronts on the ground level facing East Erie Street. Included in the redevelopment was the purchase and renovation of the old Kent hotel, which first opened in 1920.
After being mostly vacant since 1979 and completely vacant since 2000, it re-opened on April 1, 2013, as the new home to the Kent locale of Buffalo Wild Wings and also homes offices, a wine and jazz bar, and apartements. A five-story mixed-use building called The Landmark was instead of in 2014 and assembly started in November 2015 on an additional five-story mixed-use building featuring microapartments, scheduled to be instead of in 2016. The developments thriving the consideration of The Plain Dealer and The New York Times and earned the town/city and college the 2013 Larry Abernathy Award from the International Town Gown Association in recognition of the positive town gown cooperation and collaboration. Additional evolution has been ongoing on the ground of Kent State University and the largely residentiary neighborhood positioned between downtown Kent and the edge of campus.
The Esplanade extension continued a segment of the Portage Hike and Bike Trail that extends to Dix Stadium and was instead of in October 2013. Kent State is constructing a new $48 million, 107,000 square feet (9,900 m2) facility for the College of Architecture and Environmental Design along the Esplanade extension and also relocated the former home of May Prentice, the first female faculty member at Kent State, to the extension as the home for the Wick Poetry Center. Construction on the architecture building started in October 2014 and is scheduled to be instead of in 2016. In total, there are plans totaling approximately $150 million for a several other facilities and upgrades athwart campus, including a new building for the College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology and a renovation and reorganization of the facilities for the School of Art. The town/city and county have also seen developments in the same area.
A new county municipal courthouse on East Main Street was instead of in April 2014, and in 2015, Kent City Council allowed the sale of the town/city hall complex to a private developer for assembly of a five-story apartment building on the site, which opened in August 2016. Kent is positioned in west-central Portage County in Northeast Ohio approximately 10 miles (20 km) northeast of Akron and 30 miles (50 km) southeast of Cleveland. It is bordered by Franklin Township on the north and east, Brimfield Township on the south, and Stow on the west.
Located on the end of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, the topography of Kent includes rolling hills and varied terrain.
The Cuyahoga River passes through the city, cutting a gorge with a drop of nearly 40 feet (10 m) adjoining to the downtown area. The United States Geological Survey lists the city's altitude at 1,056 feet (322 m) above sea level at a point near Kent's geographic center. Elevations vary slightly inside the town/city limits with a several buildings on the Kent State University ground at altitudes in excess of 1,160 feet (350 m) and points as high as 1,200 feet (370 m). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, as of 2010 the town/city has a total region of 9.28 square miles (24.04 km2), of which 9.17 square miles (23.75 km2) is territory and 0.11 square miles (0.28 km2) is water. The four chief seasons in Kent: from top left clockwise, winter, spring, summer, and fall Kent's climate is classified as a humid continental climate in the Dfa Koppen climate classification meaning it typically has very warm, humid summers and cold, snowy winters with moderate and variable spring and autumn seasons.
The record high temperature is 103 F (39 C), set on July 7, 1988, with the record low of 22 F ( 30 C) recorded January 17, 1982. During the spring and summer months, thunderstorms are fairly common and the region is susceptible to tornadoes, though the last recorded tornado in Kent occurred in 1973. Effects from tropical systems can also be felt, usually taking the form of increased humidity, rain, and wind, such as with the remnants of Hurricane Ike in September 2008. During the winter months, snow flurry is common and can occur in large quantities with considerable cloud cover.
Kent is not considered part of the Lake Erie snowbelt, though lake-effect snow does occur at times.
Climate data for Kent, Ohio As a college town, Kent's demographic and populace statistics are greatly affected by the existence and expansion of Kent State University. As a result, a several statistics are noticeably higher or lower than state and nationwide averages including median age and the percentage of inhabitants in the 18 24 age bracket, individuals below the poverty line, and percentage of inhabitants with a college degree.
Initial populace growth in Kent was influenced by the locale on the Cuyahoga River which led to the evolution of industrialized and manufacturing jobs. Early pioneer mainly came from the northeastern United States and were largely of German descent. After the arrival of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad in 1863, expansion was steady into the early 20th century with the village battling Ravenna for the position of Portage County's biggest city. By the 1930 Census, Kent had passed Ravenna as the county's most crowded city with even larger populace growth in the 1950s and 1960s rising from 12,148 in 1950 to 28,183 by 1970. As of 2010, Kent remains the county's biggest city. Most recent populace measurements of the town/city have shown the effect of shifts in the city's overall populace coinciding with shifts in the number of students living on ground as well as a reduction in the number of persons per housing unit. 2.2% of the populace is Hispanic or Latino of any race. Although slightly below the nationwide averages for range, Kent is very close to the averages for Ohio and above the averages for the encircling area. Between the 2000 and 2010 censuses, the town/city saw slight increases in the number of minority residents. The 2015 estimate placed the populace at 29,810. The average homehold size in Kent was 2.2 and the average family size was 2.86, which compares with the nationwide average of 2.58 for a homehold and 3.14 for a family and the state average homehold size of 2.44 and average family size of 3.01. The mean income for a homehold in the town/city was $46,848, well below the mean homehold incomes for Ohio ($61,397) and the United States ($70,116) in the 2010 Census.
The median homehold income in Kent was $28,958, compared to $46,563 for Ohio and $51,222 for the U.S.
For families, the mean income in Kent was $71,817 with a median income of $59,936, both of which were closer to the state ($73,084 mean, $58,566 median) and nationwide ($81,568 mean, $62,112 median) averages.
While the number of individuals below the poverty line is decidedly higher than both the state and nationwide averages, with 14.8% of individuals in Ohio and 14.4% in the United States being below the poverty line, the percentage of families below the poverty line is slightly below the state (10.5%) and nationwide (10.8%) averages.
Educationally, Kent is above the national, state, and small-town averages for inhabitants who have attained a bachelor's, master's, or above a master's degree.
At the 2010 Census, 41.9% of Kent's populace above the age of 25 had obtained a college degree compared to 24.9% of the same populace in Portage County, 24.1% statewide, and 27.9% nationally. Corporate command posts of the Davey Tree Expert Company, Kent's biggest private employer Kent's locale along the Cuyahoga River and later the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal and multiple barns lines made it attractive initially for the establishment of small gristmills for the manufacturing of flour and various factories.
Progressively larger factories later advanced due to increased power available from the river and eventually due to the ease and lower cost of transit of goods to other markets. During the latter half of the 19th century and into the early 20th century, the city's biggest employers were all industrially based, including the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad and its successors, which directed its chief maintenance shops in the village; the Seneca Chain Company; and bus manufacturer Twin Coach among others. A disastrous fire at the Seneca Chain Company in 1909 led to the creation of the Kent Board of Trade an early Chamber of Commerce which was prosperous in getting Kent chose in 1910 as the site of what would turn into Kent State University. Changes in the structure of the barns and declines in the manufacturing zone amid the mid-20th century combined with the rapid expansion of Kent State University following World War II led to the college becoming the city's biggest employer and influenced the evolution of other areas of the city's economy.
Beginning in the late first decade of the 21st century, the university, along with the town/city and private investors, began to play a more active part in the redevelopment of downtown Kent and has aided in the evolution of small-town high tech companies. Kent State operates Centennial Research Park, along Ohio State Route 59 in Kent's Joint Economic Development District with Franklin Township, which homes two high tech start-up companies in the liquid crystal industry. Kent has an additional Joint Economic Development District with Brimfield Township. Through the Kent Regional Business Alliance, the town/city also supports two company incubators. Kent State University, Kent's biggest employer Manufacturing accounts for 7.1% of the workforce with a Land O' Lakes plant being the biggest employer in the sector. Smithers-Oasis, a floristry developer and manufacturer, was established in Kent in 1954 and operates a plant in the city, with plans to return corporate offices to Kent by September 2013. Kent is also home to the corporate command posts of the Davey Tree Expert Company, which serves as the city's biggest private employer. In 2010 Davey Tree announced plans to relocate staff from its Davey Resource Group, who were previously in neighboring Stow, to Kent as part of a prepared downtown evolution and has stated long-term goals include having all corporate offices in Kent. The office, which encompassed some office staff already in Kent at the chief corporate headquarters, opened in August 2012. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated the unemployment rate in Kent at 7.9% in 2010 and 6.6% in October 2011. 2010 Kent Heritage Festival along South Water Street Cultural elements in Kent include various arts, surroundingal, and entertainment affairs amid the year, as well as the Kent State University Museum.
The Kent Heritage Festival is held every July in the downtown area, coinciding with the U.S.
The festival includes crafts, booths, entertainment, train rides, 5 - K and 10 - K competitions, and fireworks, drawing approximately 25,000 citizens each year. In October, Kent hosts the homecoming festivities for Kent State University, including a parade down East Main Street as well as other affairs and activities both on ground and around the city. Also in October, the downtown region hosts an annual, yet unofficial, Halloween celebration, which usually takes place the last Saturday of October.
The event typically draws thousands, largely Kent State students, and includes many who dress in costume. In 2007 Main Street Kent, a small-town organization that promotes downtown Kent, created a family-oriented Halloween event downtown that precedes the unofficial celebration. Since 2007, Kent has hosted an annual surroundingal festival known as "Who's Your Mama?" The festival has affairs at various locations in the city, such as a vegan chef competition, concerts, a film festival, guest speakers, and booths on surrounding-based topics. Through Main Street Kent, additional affairs downtown include an ice cream civil event in August, an outside concert series and "sidewalk cinema" between May and September, an art and wine festival in June, a cider festival in November, and the Festival of Lights Christmas celebration in early December. Kent Potterfest, a festival celebrating the book and movie series Harry Potter, debuted in late July 2016 and is held annually in the downtown area.
It features Harry Potter-themed vendors and activities, a 5k run through the ground of Kent State University, a costume contest, and the transformation of Acorn Alley into Diagon Alley. The Kent Stage, positioned downtown, is a performance venue for a range of arts performances in music and theater.
Earth Day festival and in June, it is one of the host venues for the Kent Folk Festival, an annual event in folk music since the late 1960s.
The festival includes multiple folk music acts at venues throughout the town/city over a reconstructionof a several days. The Kent Stage also hosts the Kent Blues Festival and a small-town artist music festival known as the Up From The River Music Festival. Kent is also home to the Kent State University Museum, positioned in Rockwell Hall on the KSU campus.
The exhibition focuses on the history of fashion design and decorative arts in the United States and around the world from the 18th century to the present. Each year in early May, the college hosts an annual commemoration of the Kent State shootings, which typically features a several speakers, forums, artwork, and other related affairs. On campus, Kent State operates the May 4 Visitors' Center, which covers the shootings and the affairs encircling them.
The center opened to the enhance October 20, 2012, amid the Kent State Homecoming weekend. The site was titled a National Historic Landmark in January 2017. In addition to the Kent State Shootings Site near the center of campus, there are also a number of additional sites and districts in Kent on the National Register of Historic Places, some of which are open to the public.
The Kent Industrial District is a historical precinct along the Cuyahoga River adjoining to downtown that includes an region and structures that were meaningful in Kent's early history. On the northwestern part of the Kent State University ground is the Ohio State Normal College At Kent district, which includes the school's five initial classic revival buildings dating to 1913. There is also the West Main Street District just west of downtown that includes 20 private homes of architectural and historical significance from the post-Civil War and early 20th century periods.
The precinct includes the Kent Masonic Center, which was originally assembled in the early 1880s as the home of Marvin Kent and his family, and the former residence of Martin L.
Davey, who served as Governor of Ohio. Buildings in Kent listed on the register include three private homes noted for their architecture styles: the John Davey House for the Second Empire style, and both the Aaron Ferrey and Charles Kent Houses as examples of Gothic Revival. Other buildings include the 1869 Kent Jail, now used by the Parks and Recreation Department, and the 1837 Franklin Township Hall, the site of eventual U.S.
See also: Kent State Golden Flashes As the home of Kent State University, Kent is also the home of the university's athletic teams, the Golden Flashes, who compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level as a member of the Mid-American Conference East Division.
Several of Kent State's squads have appreciateed league and nationwide success, the most notable being the men's basketball team's run to the Elite Eight in the 2002 NCAA Tournament and the baseball team's appearance in the 2012 College World Series. The 6,327-seat Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center, generally referred to as the MAC Center, is the site of a number of athletic affairs in multiple sports, including wrestling, women's gymnastics, and women's volleyball in addition to men's and women's basketball.
In addition to hosting the KSU football team, Kent State's 25,319-seat Dix Stadium has been a venue for high school football games both in the regular-season and the state playoffs. The adjoining Murphy-Mellis Field is a locale for Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) field hockey tournament games and the Diamond at Dix is a regular venue for OHSAA county-wide softball tournament games. From 1975 to 1981 the Cleveland Browns held their training camp in Kent at Kent State University. The Kent State University Ice Arena serves as host to a several small-town ice hockey programs including youth leagues, high school and experienced teams, and as a site for OHSAA high school tournament games and ice skating competitions in addition to being home of KSU's club team, which competes in the American Collegiate Hockey Association. The ice arena is also the home of the Kent Twisters, a member of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Women's Hockey Association, an adult amateur women's ice hockey league. Kent also plays host to the Portage County Open tennis tournament, held annually at the tennis courts of Theodore Roosevelt High School. The town/city operates nearly 20 parks and preserves, the biggest of which is the 56-acre (23 ha) Fred Fuller park along the Cuyahoga River, titled after a former Kent Parks chairman.
Franklin Mills Riveredge Park, which follows the Cuyahoga River through downtown Kent, passes through a large portion of the Kent Industrial District along with Heritage Park and includes sites related to the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal. Next to on the south is the John Brown Tannery Park, on the site of the former tannery John Brown helped fund with Zenas Kent in the 1830s, while Brady's Leap park, adjoining to the north, is at the locale of the famed leap over the Cuyahoga River by Captain Samuel Brady about 1780. The parks and recreation department, in addition to operating and maintaining the city's parks and preserves, also operates a recreation center on the city's south side and offers a several sports, arts, and education programs at various locations in Kent. The department also sponsors affairs throughout the year including Art in the Park, an ice-skating party, hayrides, and Santa's Arrival. The Kent City School District operates an indoor pool at Theodore Roosevelt High School that is available for enhance recreational and instructional use outside of its use by the school for athletics and physical education.
Within the town/city are segments of the Portage Hike and Bike Trail, which is jointly managed with Kent State University, the Portage Park District, and the town/city of Ravenna.
The chief portion of the trail follows the Cuyahoga River in Kent with most of the trail paved with asphalt.
In August 2012, as part of a several redevelopment projects in the downtown area, Kent State University began assembly of the Esplanade Extension, which was instead of in August 2013 and joins the university's portion of trail extending to Dix Stadium, known as the University Esplanade, to downtown Kent. The trail joins with the hike and bike trails in neighboring Summit County and links Kent with close-by communities in Portage County. The town/city is also home to the Tom S.
Cooperrider-Kent Bog State Nature Preserve, positioned in the southern edge of Kent.
Through partnerships with Kent State University Recreational Services and other small-town agencies, additional recreational opportunities are available to town/city residents.
Kent also has a bicycle-sharing fitness known as Flashfleet in partnership with the college and PARTA.
Map showing the six wards of Kent with chose streets labeled Kent is governed by a charter form of government with a council manager fitness of nine council members and a mayor.
The town/city is divided into six wards and voters select a mayor, a council member representing their ward, and three at-large council members in staggered four-year terms. The town/city charter, adopted in 1963, is reviewed by a charter commission every 10 years who then make recommendations for changes, the last review being in 2015. The town/city council hires a town/city manager who oversees the day-to-day operations in the various town/city departments and enforces policies set by council.
Kent voters allowed the change from a mayor-council fitness to council-manager in 1975 and it went into effect in 1977. Jerry Fiala began his term as mayor January 1, 2010, and Dave Ruller began serving as town/city manager June 15, 2005. As part of the town/city government, Kent also has departments of improve development, health, human services, law, parks and recreation, enhance safety, and enhance service. The Public Service Department oversees a range of assembly and maintenance works as well as the city's water treatment and water reclamation systems while the Public Safety Department includes both the police and fire departments. The Kent Police Department is homed in the city's Safety Administration Building and includes 911 dispatch for Kent and Franklin Township. Kent State University also operates its own police department, which mainly patrols the KSU ground and KSU property in and out of the Kent town/city limits. The two departments incessantly communicate and for a several years were headed by identical twin brothers: James Peach in the town/city and John Peach at the university. The fire department operates two stations, the chief station adjoining to the Safety Administration Building and the West Side Fire Station along North Mantua Street on the side of the Cuyahoga River.
Kent Fire also provides fire and emergency medical service coverage for Franklin Township and the village of Sugar Bush Knolls. At the state level, Kent is in the 68th precinct of the Ohio House of Representatives, represented since 2011 by Democrat Kathleen Clyde, a Kent resident. In the State Senate, Kent is part of the 18th district, represented since 2011 by Republican John Eklund of Geauga County. At the Federal level, Kent is encompassed in Ohio's 13th congressional district, represented since 2003 by Democrat Tim Ryan of Niles. See also: Kent City School District, Kent Free Library, and Kent State University Preschool, elementary, and secondary education is mainly provided by the Kent City School District with the small portion of the town/city south of State Route 261 a part of the neighboring Field Local School District. The Kent precinct was created around 1860 and later consolidated with the Franklin Township and Brady Lake school districts in 1959. It serves most of Kent and Franklin Township, the villages of Brady Lake and Sugar Bush Knolls and a small part of southern Streetsboro. Kent has four neighborhood elementary schools that serve students in grades K 5, Stanton Middle School for grades 6 8, and Theodore Roosevelt High School for grades 9 12.
The precinct also operates a preschool program homed at Davey Elementary School, and is a member of the Six District Educational Compact with five encircling districts to facilitate vocational education, with many of these programs homed at Roosevelt High School. In 1985, Roosevelt High School was given the United States Department of Education Excellence in Education award and the school has persistently been rated "Excellent" by the Ohio Department of Education since 2004. For 2010 and 2015, it was titled in US News & World Report as one of the best high schools in the United States, earning the publication's Bronze Medal designation. The Kent City School District has been persistently rated as "Excellent" or "Effective" by the Ohio Department of Education and in 2007 Walls Elementary School was titled a "School of Promise" by the Ohio Department of Education, while Longcoy Elementary earned the U.S.
Department of Education's prestigious Blue Ribbon School award. Kent also has one private school, St.
Patrick School, which serves around 300 students in grades K 8 from Kent and a several surrounding communities.
Newer portion of the Kent Free Library The Kent Free Library is the chief enhance library.
It was established in 1892 after Kent became the first village in Ohio to use an 1892 state law which allowed municipalities under a populace of 5,000 to tax inhabitants for the upkeep of a library.
Andrew Carnegie donated $10,000 in 1901 for assembly of a permanent home for the library, which opened in 1903. The 2006 expansion to the library brought available space to 55,000 square feet (5,100 m2) with a book compilation of 147,390 items as of 2010. It is a school precinct library associated with the Kent City School District and is also part of the Portage Library Consortium, connecting it with Reed Memorial Library in Ravenna and the Portage County District Library, which maintains six branch libraries athwart the county and a bookmobile. The chief campus of Kent State University is positioned in the southeastern part of the city.
Additional facilities include a research park and golf course just east of the town/city limits in Franklin Township and the Kent State University Airport, just west of Kent in Stow. Founded in 1910 as a teacher training institution, the college has turn into a world prestige in the evolution of liquid crystals through the Liquid Crystal Institute and was the site of the first patent for the undivided liquid crystal in the 1970s. Kent State also has a nationally recognized fashion design program and nationally ranked programs in library science and business. As of 2010, the College of Nursing is the 5th-largest nursing school in the United States and biggest in Ohio.
In 2009 the college inaugurated the College of Public Health, the second enhance health program in Ohio and 33rd in the U.S. The Kent State library system, which includes the 12-story chief library and homes over 2.6 million volumes, includes six additional department libraries on the chief campus and a branch at each of the seven county-wide campuses. The library fitness is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, one of 3 in Ohio and 124 in North America. The college offers over 300 programs of study combined in the undergraduate and graduate levels and serves over 41,000 students in eight campuses athwart Northeast Ohio with over 30,000 at the ground in Kent. Kent is part of the Cleveland-Akron Television Market Area as defined by the Federal Communications Commission, which includes a 17-county region of Northeast Ohio. As of 2015 it rates as the 18th-largest media market in the United States as stated to Nielsen Media Research. While most stations are positioned in Cleveland and Akron, Kent is home to the offices and chief studio of Western Reserve Public Media, the PBS partner for Akron and Youngstown. The studios for WAOH and W35 - AX, small-town affiliates for the Retro Television Network, are positioned just east of the town/city limits in Franklin Township. TV-2, a Kent State University student-run production, is available on campus, on small-town cable, and online. Kent is also in range of the tv stations that broadcast out of Youngstown. For radio, Kent is part of the Akron Radio Market, though it is inside range of primary stations in the Cleveland Radio Market as well as many in the Youngstown-Warren and Canton markets. Three stations, two FM and one AM, are licensed to Kent.
WKSU, at 89.7 FM, broadcasts from the ground of Kent State University and is the chief partner for National Public Radio in Northeast Ohio for the Akron, Canton, and Cleveland radio markets via repeaters around the region. WNIR, at 100.1 FM, is broadcast from studios shared with sister station WJMP and tv stations WAOH and W35 - AX in Franklin Township. WNIR is centered on talk radio and news and is a small-town partner of ABC Radio and Westwood One.
Black Squirrel Radio is a student-run online station from Kent State available online and on small-town cable. The Record-Courier, a daily journal which mainly covers Portage County, is the chief source of printed news media for Kent.
The Record-Courier was formed by the consolidation of the Ravenna Evening Record and the Kent Courier-Tribune and is presented by the Record Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Gate - House Media.
The Record-Courier maintained an office in Kent until 2008 before all offices were moved to Kent from Ravenna in 2012.
In addition to the Record-Courier, the Kent offices home the various departments of Record Publishing and its other weekly newspapers that serve a several Summit and Portage County communities. Kent Patch, a small-town division of Patch Media, mainly serves as an online bulletin board for small-town events.
It was established in 2010 and functioned as a news origin specific to Kent before Patch Media downsized hundreds of small-town Patch sites athwart the United States in October 2013. The town/city is also served by Kent State University's Daily Kent Stater, which is available in print at select locations on and off ground and online via Kent - Wired.com, a collaborative site with TV-2 and Black Squirrel Radio. The Akron Beacon Journal and The Plain Dealer also serve Kent through county-wide coverage and bringy. Magazines presented at Kent State include Fusion, a periodical devoted to sexual minority issues; Kent State Magazine, an official printed announcement of the university; and The Burr, a student-run periodical about affairs going on in and around Kent. The town/city operates its own water system, drawing groundwater from wells with an adjoining water treatment plant positioned just outside the town/city limits in Franklin Township as well as using a water reclamation facility along the Cuyahoga River in the southwestern part of the city. Waste compilation for the entire town/city is handled through a small-town private contractor and Portage County handles the city's recycling collection. Kent's initial recycling program was advanced in 1970 by the Kent Environmental Council and was Ohio's first elected and self-supporting program. Local phone utilities are provided through AT&T Ohio through the 330 and 234 region codes, electricity is supplied and lines are maintained by First - Energy in the former coverage region of Ohio Edison, and natural gas is supplied and lines are maintained by Dominion Resources East Ohio Energy. While inhabitants are no-charge to choose their own natural gas and electric suppliers, the town/city is part of the Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council, or NOPEC, the biggest government aggregation in the United States. Kent Central Gateway, downtown Summit Street is another primary east-west road mainly on Kent's easterly side, passing through and linking much of the Kent State campus.
SR 43 joins Kent with Interstate 76, approximately 3 miles (5 km) to the south via exit 33 in Brimfield and to the Ohio Turnpike/Interstate 80 and the easterly end of Interstate 480, approximately 7 miles (11 km) to the north via Turnpike exit 187 in Streetsboro.
It serves as a bypass between SR 43, SR 59, and Summit Street on Kent's south and easterly sides and to Tallmadge on the southwest. Public transit is provided by the Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority, known as PARTA, which is headquartered just outside the town/city limits in Franklin Township. PARTA serves Kent through a dial-a-ride service, the Suburban and Kent Circulator routes completely inside the town/city limits, the cyclic Black Squirrel route along SR 59 amid Kent State University's Fall and Spring semesters, and the Interurban connecting with Stow and Ravenna.
There are also two express routes, one to Akron connecting with METRO Regional Transit Authority via Brimfield, and a Cleveland Express route connecting with the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority via Streetsboro, Twinsburg, and Maple Heights. PARTA also includes Campus Bus Service, which provides three fixed routes on the ground of Kent State University.
An intermodal transit facility, known as the Kent Central Gateway, opened in 2013 in the downtown region to furnish better integration of the existing bus system, hike-and-bike trails, and parking.
Hospital care is provided mainly through University Hospitals Portage Medical Center, affiliated with University Hospitals of Cleveland, which operates the UH Kent Health Center in the southern part of the city.
The UH Kent Health Center includes an outpatient surgery center as well as a medical arts building housing a medical imaging center and family medicine doctors. The 150-bed chief hospital is positioned in Ravenna and the fitness operates additional facilities throughout Portage County. Free clinics include the Axess - Pointe Community Health Center, positioned just east of the town/city limits in the Joint Economic Development District with Franklin Township, and a clinic in the downtown region directed by civil agency Townhall II. The earliest organized theological services in Kent were held in 1815 when a Methodist group was formed, followed by a Congregational church in 1819. The first theological meetinghouse in Kent, which also served as the first schoolhouse, was assembled in 1817 and was used by a several different denominations.
It served as the home of the First Congregational Church which became the Kent United Church of Christ in 1964 until 1955. It was later purchased by a small-town business and is used as their corporate headquarters. There are also Unitarian Universalist, non-denominational Christian, and Baha'i Faith congregations. Although there are no Jewish Jewish churchs or temples, there is a Hillel Jewish student center on the ground of Kent State University which serves students at both Kent State and the University of Akron. Just outside the town/city limits in Franklin Township are the Kent congregations of the Church of the Nazarene, Assemblies of God, as well as Baptist and Free Will Baptist churches.
The Islamic Society of Akron and Kent operates a masjid and school on its chief campus in Cuyahoga Falls, west of Kent.
It was established in Kent in 1979 and maintains an additional masjid in the city. Kent is also part of a ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Rootstown that was first organized in Kent and includes most of southern Portage County. Main article: List of citizens from Kent, Ohio See also: List of Kent State University alumni Kent has produced and been home to a number of notable individuals in varying fields.
Its natives and inhabitants are referred to as "Kentites". John Davey, a pioneer in tree surgery and founder of the Davey Tree Expert Company moved to Kent in the 1880s.
Other political figures to come from Kent include Wisconsin governor Lucius Fairchild, former U.S.
Cook, and noted abolitionist John Brown, who lived in what was then Franklin Mills from 1835 1839. Noted athletes to have come from Kent include former National Football League players Mike Adamle, Tom De - Leone, and Stan White and former Major League Baseball player, manager, and executive Gene Michael. Three members of the band Devo, which debuted in Kent in 1973 and was established by Kent State University students, are natives of Kent: Gerald Casale, Peter Gregg, and Rod Reisman. Other performing artists to come from Kent include singer Julianne Baird, playwright Vincent J.
Cardinal, and voice actor Joshua Seth. Lucien Price, an author and writer for The Boston Evening Transcript and The Atlantic Monthly interval up in Kent and used the pseudonym "Woolwick" for Kent in some of his stories. Kent was also the home of inventor Lucien B.
Smith, regarded as the inventor of barbed wire. Additionally, citizens who have lived in Kent while attending Kent State University include comedians Drew Carey and Arsenio Hall, actor Michael Keaton, musicians Joe Walsh and Chrissie Hynde, and additional members of the band Devo. Athletes include football players Antonio Gates, James Harrison, Julian Edelman, Joshua Cribbs, and Jack Lambert; Major League Baseball players Thurman Munson, Rich Rollins, and Andy Sonnanstine; college football coaches Nick Saban and Lou Holtz; and golfer Ben Curtis, who resides in Franklin Township just north of the Kent town/city limits and lists Kent as his residence. Kent has one sister city, Dudince, a small spa town of about 1,500 citizens in southern Slovakia. The relationship was established in 2003 through Sister Cities International and resulted in the formation of the Kent-Dudince Sister City Association to promote learning and understanding of the Slovakian culture. The group meets regularly and organizes cultural exchanges and programs that feature Slovakian dance and music. Cultural exchanges have encompassed a performance of a choir from Kent's Theodore Roosevelt High School in Dudince in 2004 and tour groups from Kent visiting in 2006 and 2008. Ravenna, Ohio, United States: Portage County Historical Society.
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