What Were Kent's Top Stories of 2011?
Kent Patch invites readers to suggest the biggest news stories from the past year
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Kent has seen its share of big news in 2011.
Construction has started on some very big redevelopment projects, including the Kent Central Gateway transit center, the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center and the city's mixed-use development with Fairmount Properties.
Meanwhile, the story of the old Kent hotel seems to have started a new chapter. There were two murders. Kent lost one of it's bravest. And a young girl was saved from drowning in the Cuyahoga River.
What do you think was the biggest story in Kent for 2011? Tell us in the comments, and the staff at Kent Patch will take your suggestions and organize them into a poll for readers to pick the biggest story of 2011.
Debra-Lynn Hook
7:49 am on Monday, December 5, 2011
The crash on the bridge.
Matt Fredmonsky
9:22 am on Monday, December 5, 2011
That's a good one, Debra-Lynn. What do other readers think?
Matt Fredmonsky
11:38 am on Monday, December 5, 2011
I guess there were no big news stories in Kent in 2011? I think the sale of the old Kent hotel to Ron Burbick was a big story for the year.
Barbara A. Barkley
5:31 pm on Monday, December 5, 2011
The hotel sale was a big story, as well as the opening up of the new bridge to traffic. Although, I tend to gravitate toward good news! Wondering what your most commented on story was in 2011, Matt? I'm guessing the SB-5 issue or the great Cajun Dave's smoker debate?
Alan Goldstein
5:42 pm on Monday, December 5, 2011
Demolition and Construction from downtown to the new bridge and more...multiple stories but all on the same theme of progress and change.
MOST HATED PERSON ON PATCH
6:21 pm on Monday, December 5, 2011
who cares?
Garret Ferrara
10:53 pm on Monday, December 5, 2011
In terms of economic impact the TIGR grant for the multimodal structure. Without that their probably wouldn't have been the "new" hotel, the Fairmont project, or even Acorn II.
Dave
11:27 am on Tuesday, December 6, 2011
That is a good story, but it's a 2010 headline...
jackie treiber
12:42 am on Tuesday, December 6, 2011
All the crime !
Dave
11:29 am on Tuesday, December 6, 2011
All the student deaths
Todd Fisher
2:20 pm on Tuesday, December 6, 2011
My vote goes to the story of Kent State Student Eric Johnston, who saved my daughter from drowning in the Cuyahoga River back in May of this year.
Colleen Thoele
7:06 am on Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Kent's own Charles Peachock makes it very far on America's Got talent!
James Thomas
10:14 am on Thursday, December 8, 2011
The Library Levy passing 2-1.
louislinus
1:01 pm on Wednesday, December 28, 2011
CHICKENS! Or the sad lack thereof.
Chriss
8:04 pm on Wednesday, December 28, 2011
displacing 250 senior citizens like they never mattered, shame.