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From the music of Rascal Flatts to Billy Joel to Taylor Swift, a free concert series is launching in Green

One of the City of Green’s top amenities is Central Park, which features the Community Hall, a gaga ball pit, a 1-mile walking trail, three ponds, a playground, a splash pad, and, of course, the amphitheater. But since the pandemic, there has not been an organized, concentrated effort to invite people to the amphitheater. That’s changing...

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A Final Thought: A ChatGPT Spring

I did it. I finally did what lazy writers have been doing for months now. I asked ChatGPT to write my column for me. I’m ashamed and embarrassed (my mother raised me better), but also fascinated. I asked the OpenAI system to write a 600-word essay about spring in Northeast Ohio. Two seconds later, here is the opening paragraph of the first...

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At Canton Vein & Vascular, Drs. Barry Zadeh and Michael Levy have revolutionized the treatment of vein and artery diseases without a trip to the hospital

Focusing on all things legs, Canton Vein & Vascular is part of a regional network of vein and vascular centers, with offices in Medina, Independence, Avon, Norwalk and Mansfield. Directed by Dr. Barry Zadeh, one of Ohio’s leading vein and vascular surgeons, this new Akron-Canton office led by Dr. Michael Levy, a renowned specialist in vein...

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Here’s what Blue Heron Brewery is packing its wildly popular feast in a glass with this summer

Thomas Haynes Bayly observed in his 1844 poem, Isle of Beauty, that absence makes the heart grow fonder. Many patrons of Medina’s Blue Heron Brewery have discovered, 180 years later, that absence also can make the appetite grow fonder—in this case a hunger and thirst—for the brewpub’s spectacular Hail Mary Bloody...

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Uncorking Ohio’s winemaking history

According to Jim Sperk of the Northern Ohio Wine Guild, Ohio currently ranks sixth on the list of wine-producing states in the United States. “California is first, followed by Washington, New York, Pennsylvania and Oregon,” says Jim. “Last year, Ohio produced 6 million gallons of wine, where Pennsylvania produced twice that...

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