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🌱 Patch AM: How Canton’s new $3.4M sign shop could change your streets
Coming up: SCCAA Offices Closing @ Noon on the Canton Patch calendar
Good day Canton! We're here again with what you need to know today. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- How Canton’s new $3.4M sign shop could change your streets
- How a Canton-area teen avoided lockup after multiple park arsons
- How Canton suspects ended up tied to a brutal Amish home invasion
Today's riddle: What did one magnet say to the other magnet? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Tuesday: Cloudy with areas of drizzle, with a high of 46 and low of 30 degrees.
- Wednesday: Times of clouds and sun, temps: high: 40, low: 35.
- Thursday: Cloudy with areas of drizzle, with a high of 50 and low of 46 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• New Home for Canton's Traffic Sign and Paint (whbc.com) — Canton’s engineering department has opened a new $3.4 million Traffic Sign and Paint Division facility at 30th Street NE and Regent Avenue, bringing all city sign-making and most street line-painting under one roof. The property, annexed from Plain Township, lets the four-person crew produce all 19,000 city street signs in-house with modern equipment, improving efficiency for local road maintenance. 
Find out what's happening in Cantonfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
• Teen gets probation for setting fires in Lake Township, Green (cantonrep.com) — Canton-area readers should know a Lake Township teen has been sentenced to a year of probation and ordered to pay $4,400 restitution for a series of arsons in Lake Township and Green. The Stark County Family Court sentence includes suspended juvenile detention time, arson registration requirements, and no-contact orders related to fires that damaged vehicles, trash bins, and park facilities.
• ‘They threatened to kill me': Suspects arraigned after violent robbery at Amish family home (fox8.com) — Several men with ties to Canton are accused of helping carry out a brutal October home-invasion robbery against an Amish family in Geauga County, and all four now face serious felony charges and high bonds. Investigators say one suspect from Canton was caught on video with stolen cash, and others were later tracked to a Canton home, with each man potentially facing decades in prison if convicted.
📸 Around Canton
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Canton
- SCCAA Offices Closing @ Noon
Stark County Community Action Agency , 1366 Market Ave N , Canton - Christmas Day
City of Canton - Canton OH 44702 - SCCAA Offices Closed
Stark County Community Action Agency , 1366 Market Ave N , Canton
Wednesday December 24
Thursday December 25
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🗓 Events Nearby
- Knit for the Needy
John Torok Community & Senior Center , 4224 Massillon Road , Green
1:00 pm - BBK-9 at Northwest
Northwest High School
4:00 pm - Cheer-V, Cheer-JV BBK-JV at Northwest
Northwest High School
5:30 pm - BBK-V, BBK-JV at Northwest
Northwest High School
5:30 pm - SCCAA Offices Closing @ Noon
Stark County Community Action Agency , 1366 Market Ave N , Canton - Zoning Board of Appeals
North Canton Civic Center , 845 W Maple Street , North Canton
5:30 pm - Christmas - Perry Township offices closed
Perry Township, OH Calendar - SCCAA Offices Closed
Stark County Community Action Agency , 1366 Market Ave N , Canton - BSW,GSW Lake vs. Dover
Tuscarawas County YMCA (Dover)
6:00 pm
Tuesday December 23
Wednesday December 24
Thursday December 25
Friday December 26
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Recently read a terrific article in our local paper about how, during WWII, when people were living through that nightmare, a number of songs were composed meant to reassure them that one day all would be normal again.
Although we are not at war, we are certainly in a time when we dream about life being 'normal' again. Old timers know these songs well. One of my… (Nextdoor Malone) - Update: Pet Reunited
Tucker, a dog who went missing in Canton, OH, has been safely reunited with their family after 6 minutes. More details here https://www.pawboost.com… (Nextdoor North Lehman Neighborhood Alliance)
- Walmart, Inc. posted a job opening for Stocking Team Associate in Canton. Apply here.
- Carrols Corporation posted a job opening for Team Member in Canton. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Canton here.
🗞 Nearby News
North Canton
- 77-year-old man who shot at Washington Square restaurant in North Canton sentenced (fox8.com)
- Browns Week 16 overreactions didn't see Shedeur Sanders' ability to run (cantonrep.com)
- Aultman, Mercy births for Nov. 30-Dec. 6 (cantonrep.com)
Louisville
- Louisville Leopards at Akron Garfield Golden Rams Boys Basketball Live Video Stream (louisvilleleopards.org)
Massillon
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-- The Patch AM Team
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