AKRON
Ward 10 meeting
AKRON: Ward 10 Councilman Zack Milkovich will be holding a town hall meeting Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Goodyear Branch library, 60 Goodyear Blvd.
Representatives from community organizations are expected to speak on various topics and concerns.
Black history program
AKRON: The Akron NAACP and Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts will present Reflections of Martin at 6 p.m. Thursday at the school, 1055 East Ave., Akron.
Reflections of Martin is an intergenerational celebration of reflections, readings and thoughts of the life and times of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., featuring performances by the Miller South band, Akron-area students, poet Judith Lyn Lee and spoken word artist XPOSYUR.
The event is free. A reception will follow. For more information, call 330-573-4986.
HUDSON
Talk features arts leaders
HUDSON: The Hudson Library & Historical Society will host an Arts Entrepreneurship Panel as part of its Winter/Spring 2017 Entrepreneurship Series at 6:30 p.m. at 96 Library St.
The panel will feature Liz Maugans, co-founder and executive director of Zygote Press and co-founder of the Collective Arts Network; Nicole Mullet, president of Torchbearers and executive director of ArtsNow; and Gabe Pollack, director of the Bop Stop at the Music Settlement, a nonprofit jazz club and education center in Ohio City in Cleveland. They will share their experiences and suggest creative, analytical and entrepreneurial skills needed for success.
The Entrepreneurship Series is sponsored by the Burton D. Morgan Foundation. Register for the free program online at hudsonlibrary.org or call 330-653-6658, ext. 1010.
MACEDONIA
Community Expo planned
MACEDONIA: The Nordonia Hills Chamber of Commerce is currently planning its 2017 Community Expo and Knight Life, which will be 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. March 18 at Nordonia High School, 8006 S. Bedford Road.
People from the four Nordonia Hills communities served by the chamber will get a chance to explore local services and retailers.
Local and national organizations are providing services, entertainment and activities in the high school gym, and there will be food and music.
For more information, call the chamber at 330-467-8956, or email laura@nordoniahillschamber.org.
State news
Cleveland to inspect rentals
CLEVELAND: Cleveland is developing plans to begin inspecting rental properties this summer to prevent lead poisoning in children and to ensure dwellings are safe.
The Plain Dealer reports that inspections of rental units are scheduled to begin citywide this summer after Cleveland hires 13 new inspectors using money from an income tax increase approved in November.
The newspaper reported in 2015 that less than half the homes where children were found to have lead poisoning had been inspected over a five-year period.
WOOSTER
Talk is on social progress
WOOSTER: Philip Kitcher, the John Dewey professor of philosophy at Columbia University, will be at the College of Wooster to give a free lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday as part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars Program.
Kitcher will present Social Progress in Lean Lecture Room of Wishart Hall, 303 E. University St. The lecture will focus on his argument that “social progress is best seen in terms of local attempts to solve identifiable problems,” then he’ll develop “the concept of the worthwhile life,” and finally consider future progress via the importance of “explorations of social structures and of genealogy.”
For more information, call 330-263-2353 or email jrudisill@wooster.edu.