I ran into Paula and Bill Canterbury at the annual St. Sebastian Church Thanksgiving dinner Wednesday night on Mull Avenue in Akron. Bill, a former Beacon Journal reporter who later did PR work for city or county officials (I forget which), is with a...
Kevin E. Vest, 18, a Coventry High school senior who died Nov. 18 in an auto/semi accident on I-77 near the Arlington entrance ramp, was a BJ sports statistician until a few months ago. He worked at CiCi's Pizza.
He was involved with Greenpeace, Stand...
In "Gimme Rewrite, Sweetheart . . .
Tales From the Last Glory Days of Cleveland Newspapers—Told By The Men and Women Who Reported the News," a book by former Cleveland Press reporter John H. Tidyman (Gray & Company), retired Beacon Journal and...
By John Olesky
(BJ 1969-96)
When Cal Deshong was born, Woodrow Wilson was in his second term as President of the United States and another Cal (Coolidge) was five years away from taking the same office, succeeding Warren G. Harding.
Herbert Hoover,...
A group of Ohio newspapers that began sharing content nearly two years ago, and have also conducted several joint polls, are about to publish their first joint reporting project.
An investigation into public employee pensions that will utilize...
