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Alder Trail at Goodyear Heights Metro Park
An advertisement from the 1900s encouraging people to garden to cut food costs.

Community gardens take root in Goodyear Heights

Laura Esposito, Park ManagerWhen Summit Metro Parks started exploring the idea of hosting community gardens, Goodyear Heights Metro . . .
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A black-capped chickadee sits on a branch.

Black-capped chickadees

(Black-capped chickadee photo by volunteer Debbie DiCarlo)Janean Kazimir, Interpretive NaturalistHow do black-capped chickadees survive frigid Northeast Ohio winters? Despite . . .
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A Summit Metro Parks ranger vehicle.

Rangers achieve state certification in community policing

Summit Metro Parks rangers have achieved state certification in community policing from the Ohio Collaborative Community-Police Relations Board.The . . .
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A group of kids and young adults sit around a u-shaped table inside the pop-up nature center at Summit Lake.

Pop-up nature center at Summit Lake wins top Ohio award

Summit Metro Parks has won first place in the 2017 Ohio Parks & Recreation Association’s awards of excellence . . .
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A volunteer pulls back a large slingshot preparing to launch tree nuts into the park while a group of volunteers watches.

Thousands of nuts planted as volunteers transform area

Volunteers have fun launching nuts from a sling shot at the former Valley View Golf Club (photo by . . .
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