On this episode Bart sits down with Megan, Chris, and Amanda, owners of The Haunted Closet on Portage Trail.

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Fallscast theme composed and performed by Alex Hall.

In addition to deciphering to meaning of 6 7, we dig into more news than we can chew:

• Information on parking ban during week of January 24
• Front Street construction between Broad & Sackett
• Quirk center reopens after repairs
• Old high school pipes froze
• Congratulations Diana Colavecchio on retirement. Mary Spaugy has taken her position of Community Development Director
• Portage Crossing sold
• Missing man at Brandywine Falls, Michael Vangelas, found dead
• Dewitt Fifth grader Brayden Heiner got to be Mayor for a Day
• Child predator Spencer Kearney arrested
• Website impersonating Summit County Fiscal Office
• St Patrick’s Day downtown pub crawl March 14
• Paint & Sip at Tiki Underground Feb 26
• Jenks born again Saturday, March 7
• Bat out of Hell musical one right only at the Akron Civic, March 29
• Devo’s Mutate, Don’t Stagnate tour coming to the Civic June 3
• PUZZLES PUZZLES PUZZLES PUZZLES PUZZLES PUZZLES!!!!!

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Fallscast theme composed and performed by Alex Hall.

Interim music: “Waiting on the Sun” by the Doors (1968)

• Farewell to former High School
• New appointments/reappointments on city boards
• Cuyahoga Falls woman victim to Facebook hacking gets back at hacker
• Measles return
• Giant Rubber Duck festival coming to the Falls this April.
• Cuyahoga Valley National Park is looking for input on their new wayside exhibit plan for Brandywine Falls, Ledges, Octagon, Kendall Lake, and Happy Days Lodge.
• Bald Eagle sightings
• Funny Stop for sale
• The Workz files for bankruptcy
• Rye & Shine’s Box Wine Prom
• Winter Goddess Night at the Artful Cricket
• 2026 student-directed one-act play festival at the new CFHS Black Box Theatre
• Snap Together

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Fallscast theme composed and performed by Alex Hall.

Interim music: “Welcome Back” by John Sebastian (1976)

Technical Difficulties: “Spanish Flea” by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass (1966)

On this short n’ sweet episode:

“Falls school district weighing ending open enrollment

*Scott Ward promotional popcorn

*Noon Years’ Eve at Cuyahoga Falls Library

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Fallscast theme composed and performed by Alex Hall.

Interim music: “Jingle Bells” by the Singing Dogs (1971)

*New high school walkthrough

*2026 city budget

*CFL Merry Makers

*The Haunted Closet

*Voting for Parking Meters on Parade

and so much more!

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Fallscast theme and interstitials composed and performed by Alex Hall.

• November 2025 election
• Solar panels
• City council’s emergency support to the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank.
• Donation drive for Peter Maurin Center
• Megan’s Way Out legislation
• Gourd & mums collection drive
• Tree lighting ceremony November 29
• Ugly Sweater Bar Crawl
• Parking Meters on Parade
• ANTIC presents The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
• Jingle at the Jenks
• Stow Players’ production of Miracle on 34th Street.
• A Charlie Brown Christmas at Goodyear Theater
• Elf and The Polar Express at the Akron Civic Theatre

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Fallscast theme and interstitials composed and performed by Alex Hall.

Topics include:

• Firefighters memorial dedication
• WWII veteran Platoon Sgt Harold Weaver
• Cuyahoga Falls Middle/High School’s designated staff member to carry a gun on school grounds
• Mr. Fun’s closing its doors
• Sense by the Falls closed
• Curbside leaf pickup
• Cuyahoga Falls Library Books and Dragons
• Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad nominated for Newsweek’s Best Christmas Train Rides 2026
• November ballot
• New public mural
• Akron Comicon
• Bottles and Books

**PLEASE NOTE: VERY LITTLE EDITING THIS WEEK. YOUNGER LISTENERS BE WARNED.

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Fallscast theme and interstitials composed and performed by Alex Hall.

An all-new Fallscast this month with discussion about:

*The Community Forum at the Natatorium

*Summit County school report cards

*Falls Fun Fest

*Cuyahoga Falls Library’s new mascot

*Halloween

*And far more about what we’re allowed to discuss.

Thank you for listening. We are always in the market for article submissions and suggestions for podcast interviews. If you are interested in volunteering with on The Falls Free Press or the Fallscast, or are a musician wishing to showcase your music on the podcast, drop us a line at fallsfreepress@gmail.com. If you enjoyed the show, be sure to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts to let others know to listen.

Fallscast theme and interstitials composed and performed by Alex Hall.

Censorship sound courtesy soundjay.com