The Barberton Herald serving Barberton, Norton and the surrounding area since 1923. Family owned and operated since 1984. News you can trust.

The city of Barberton is proposing to address safety issues at the Wooster Road/Robinson Avenue intersection by eliminating the westbound outside travel lane, improve movements at the intersections, and adding signal coordination. To ensure that the decision-making process is comprehensive, input from residents and businesses is needed.  The project proposes to resurface 0.22-miles of Wooster…

Reports of a drive-by shooting on Barberton’s North End had nerves on edge the afternoon of Aug. 3 but they proved in error, police say.

The suspect in the July 30 murder of a 29-year-old man in Kenmore was arrested Aug. 3.

Barberton Magics 18U won the 2020 Suburban Community Baseball League. The 18U league consists of teams from Highland, Revere, Firestone, Cloverleaf and Barberton.

A proposal in front of the Norton Planning Commission would turn Barberton Brookside Country Club into a cul-de-sac-laden housing allotment.

The perpetrators of a brutal 2019 robbery were sentenced July 30.

Akron police are searching for the man they believe shot and killed a 29-year-old man in the 1200 block of Kenmore Boulevard late July 30.

A pair of East Ford Avenue residents were awakened the night of July 24 to smoke and heat, evacuating and calling 911.

A 36-year-old Barberton man was killed July 29 when his cement truck ran off the road in Wayne County and rolled.

Ashley is a 2006 Norton High School graduate and takes her pet iguana for rides inside a special pet friendly backpack.