Alliance, Ohio

• Heard on the Street
  

  Sandusky County Share and Care Center, 206 Lynn St., Fremont is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.

• Marlington's Headley shoots 38 in NBC golf win against Alliance
  

  Photo By Kevin Graff/The ReviewMarlingtona s Ryan Headley chips toward the green at Sleepy Hollow Country Club Thursday.

• Edna Reed
  

  Edna B. Reed, age 91, of Salem, died at 6:40 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, at Essex of Salem I. She was born Jan.

• Explosion Near Alliance Charter School
  

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• Marilyn S. Kerr Named Professional of the Year in Clinical Pathology
  

  ALLIANCE, OH, September 02, 2010 /Cambridge Who's Who/ -- Marilyn S. Kerr, Medical Technologist for Alliance Community Hospital, has been named Cambridge Who's Who Professional of the Year in Clinical Pathology.

• Stark GOP announces possible nominees for Stark County treasurer
  

  The Stark County Republican Party Executive Committee will meet at 6 p.m. on Sept.

• UA panel to look at water mapping
  

  With all the recent stories about algae blooms in Akron-area ponds and lakes, a panel of artists and scientists exploring water mapping, history and use should prove timely.

• 36th annual Greek Fest is set for Labor Day weekend
  

  Long known as the last hurrah of summer in Columbus, the Greek Festival will take place over Labor Day weekend at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 555 N. High St.

• Rough ride over crosswalks
  

  It's been 15 months since resurfacing and pedestrian safety upgrades were completed in the first two blocks of Front Street in Marietta.

• Stark County Fair Band Show spans from rock and pop to the patriotic
  

  Stark County Fair has the longest running band show in the state of Ohio, according to Larry Morgan, superintendent of the Stark County Department of Education.

• AHS boys edged by Lions
  

  Minerva edged visiting Alliance 3-2 in a Northeastern Buckeye Conference match. Devon Rogers scored two goals for the Lions and Caleb Becker added the other one.

• Alliance area has highest number kids with injuries
  

  According to a report issued by Safe Kids Stark County and the Stark County Health Department, children residing in the 44601 ZIP code are more likely to visit an emergency room for a dog bite or for a foreign body crammed into a bodily crevice.

• New Alliance Water Department vehicles carry MAC Trailer beds
  

  Alliance officials recently reaffirmed their intention to use local vendors, after picking up two new Alliance Water Department trucks from MAC Trailer.

• Stark Parks dedicates Mahoning Valley Trail, which was 12 years in the making
  

  Photo By Ed Hall Jr./The ReviewCyclists and pedestrians cross over the newly dedicated Mahoning Valley Trail bridge Saturday afternoon.

• Stratton Chevrolet unveils Cruze
  

  A steady crowd of a couple hundred people stopped at Stratton Chevrolet for the open house and unveiling for the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze on Saturday.

• Comments
  

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• Leading by Example: Jay A. Gershen inaugurated as NEOUCOM's sixth president
  

  The president of Rootstown's medical college is leading by example, investing his own money into a key scholarship proposal of his new administration.

• Police Reports
  

  Someone reported suspicious people in the 600 block of South Ellsworth Avenue at 12:53 a.m. Friday.

City Description

Alliance is a city in Stark and Mahoning counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 23,253 at the 2000 census. Alliance's nickname is "The Carnation City" and the city is home to Mount Union College. The Stark County portion of Alliance is part of the Canton–Massillon Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the small Mahoning County portion is part of the Youngstown–Warren–Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Alliance was founded in 1854 by the merger of three smaller communities called Williamsport (formed in 1827), Freedom (formed in 1838), and Liberty (formed in 1850). A fourth community, Mount Union, was added in 1888. Alliance was incorporated as a city in 1889. There are two popular theories regarding the origin of the city's name. One holds that it was chosen because of the "alliance" of three small settlements into a larger entity. The other theory says the name reflects the fact that two major railroad lines (the Cleveland and Wellsville Railroad and the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad) intersected in Alliance, once known as "The Crossing". Alliance is a town where Main Street was originally laid out to bring traffic to the train station, the heart of the

City Contained By:

• Stark County
• Ohio

City Contains:

• Mount Union College
• Alliance Bank Building
• Raphaels School of Beauty Culture
• Community Services Division-Alliance City

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 22.2738977489 km squared

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