Newspapers
Akron Beacon Journal
(http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/) is the only daily newspaper published for the Akron market.The West Side Leader
(http://www.akron.com/) a free weekly publication reporting on local news.
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Akron is called the City of Invention but was formerly known as the Rubber Capital of the World, and before that, as the original home of Quaker Oats, and before that, as a pottery works. Built right on the southern edge of the Connecticut Western Reserve, Akron really grew by selling gravity. It happens to be right on the shortest possible line drawn between the Cuyahoga River connecting to the Great Lakes - Lake Erie, and the Tuscarawas River connecting to the Ohio River and ultimately to the Gulf of Mexico. The Portage Path has connected the two since time immemorial, and is the primary reason Akron grew just where it did.