The Children’s Fishing Derbies are Saturday. There will be prizes for the kids catching the biggest and smallest fish, and ...

The Erie Canal had opened in upstate New York in 1825, providing the first navigable waterway linking the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes. The canal ran 363 miles between Albany on the Hudson River ...

The full moon of May signals channel catfish are gathering to spawn around northern Ohio. Jim Horn, left, and his brother, ...

The Carroll Area Historical Society (CAHS) is hosting a day of history in honor of its 20th anniversary on June 7, at the ...

Nicole] Oh, look at this. (upbeat guitar music) - I'm Bill Sweitzer, I work for the New York State Canal Corporation, and we operate and maintain the Erie Canal and a big part of the Canalway ...

The reopening of Rokeby Lock No. 8 will restore full navigational access to the Muskingum River from Zanesville to Marietta.

2000: The Akron Community Foundation announced that community activist Ann Amer Brennan would receive the 31st Bert A. Polsky ...

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Visit BeaconJournal.com every Sunday morning throughout the bicentennial year for a look back at the week in Akron history.

With the weather looking a little better for the holiday weekend, Providence Metropark might be the place to go.

Stark Parks Director Dan Moeglin said $1.5 million in federal funds would've gone toward a variety of needs at the Ohio and Erie Canal National Heritage Area in Canal Fulton. For now, the ...