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Alder Trail at Goodyear Heights Metro Park
A portrait of the five 2025 board of park commissioners.

Board of Park Commissioners meets April 14

The Board of Park Commissioners for Summit Metro Parks will meet Tuesday, April 14 at 11:30 a.m. at . . .
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A white woman scrapes food scraps from her cutting board into a tin bucket labeled "Compost" in her kitchen

Turn food waste into super soil

By composting organic materials, you can help reduce the amount of methane landfills produce while improving soil quality.

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close-up of a fingerling lake sturgeon being held in someone's left hand, about to be released into the Cuyahoga River

Lake sturgeon reclaim the Cuyahoga as home

The reintroduction of lake sturgeon in the Cuyahoga River signals the return of a prehistoric species and the rebirth of a river once in flames.

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Summit Metro Parks Foundation brings Wild & Scenic Film Festival to Akron

A scene from "A Small Garden by the Window," one of the films showing at the Wild & . . .
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A portrait of the five 2025 board of park commissioners.

Board of Park Commissioners meets March 10

The Board of Park Commissioners for Summit Metro Parks will meet Tuesday, March 10 at 11:30 a.m. at . . .
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