Today is Sept. 28, 2023.

• Happy fall! We’re going to have considerable cloudiness with a shower today and maybe a rumble of thunder, with a high of 67 and a low of 57. We’re then going to warm up into the high 70s until topping out at about 80 degrees next Tuesday. Perfect weather to start getting those spooky decorations up for the Halloween Decoration Tour!
  

• It’s Homecoming Weekend at Stow-Munroe Falls High School! Festivities get underway Friday, Sept. 29 with the parade at 5 p.m. (for information on road closures, traffic patterns, participant drop-off and more, see stowstuco.org/parade). The parade will be followed by the festival at 5:30 p.m. at the high school (see stowstuco.org/festival for a full list of food trucks, inflatables, vendors and events). The Bulldog football team’s Homecoming game against North Royalton kicks off at 7 p.m. Friday night. The weekend’s festivities culminate Saturday, Sept. 30 with the Homecoming Dance from 7 to 10 p.m. at Stow-Munroe Falls High School.
  

• Attention ghosts and goblins: The City of Munroe Falls has announced that Trick or Treat will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28. Get those costumes ready!
  

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Candidates Night 2023: Local races will take center stage at 13th annual event

The Stow group Citizens for Nonpartisan Politics will hold its 13th annual Candidates Night on Tuesday, Oct. 3 at the VFW Acker-Moore Memorial Post 175, located at 3733 Fishcreek Rd. in Stow. The event will run from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., with doors opening at 6:15 p.m. It is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be provided.

The event will feature candidates in several local races: Stow City Council At-Large, Stow City Council Ward, Stow-Munroe Falls City School District Board of Education, Stow Mayor, Stow Finance Director and Stow Law Director. Each candidate will be allotted two minutes to present their background and qualifications, followed by a timed question-and-answer session where each candidate will answer two questions. CNP Secretary Tom Stephan will serve as both MC and moderator, while longtime community activist Kem Cook, assisted by CNP members, will serve as timekeeper.

The following candidates will participate:

• All candidates for Stow City Council At-Large: Cyle Feldman, Kyle Herman, David A. Licate, Jeremy McIntire and Scott Simpkins. Those participating in Ward races are: Ward 1—Nick Stoiber (Matt Riehl did not respond by time of publication); Ward 2—Kelly Coffey and Sindi Harrison; Ward 3—John Baranek (Brian Lowdermilk is unable to attend); Ward 4—Mario Fiocca (Jared Miller did not respond by time of publication).

• Running unopposed but participating are: Stow Mayor John Pribonic, who will send a representative; Kelly Toppin, candidate for Stow Finance Director; and Jaime Syx, candidate for Stow Law Director.

• All candidates for SMFCSD Board of Education are planning to attend: Nancy Brown, Mike Daniels, Mike Sheehan and Kari Suhadolnik.

Members of the CNP Governmental Affairs Committee developed the questions the moderator will ask; the candidates will not receive or see any questions prior to Candidates Night.

Per the event’s format, there will be no debates.

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Chamber’s Candidates Luncheon a success; inaugural Fall Foodie Tour set to kick off Oct. 1

By Julie McLain, Executive Director

The Stow-Munroe Falls Chamber recently hosted our first “Candidates Luncheon” on Sept. 19. The event was a forum for candidates running for Stow City Council as well as Munroe Falls City Council. Facilitated by Jeremy Lyle of Heart to Heart Leadership, the candidates’ questions were economic development-focused and designed to help our audience of business owners and community members better understand where our elected officials and candidates stand on a variety of economic development and other related issues facing both communities now and going into the future. A recording of the event is available at https://youtu.be/4evPnmxnBFo.

ARE YOU HUNGRY?
The Fall Foodie Tour is ready to launch Sunday, Oct. 1 in Stow and Munroe Falls! This kickoff event will feature 20+ locally owned and operated restaurants from Oct. 1-31. This is a perfect way to get out in the community and try a new place to eat or go back to an old favorite for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Plan a family night or date night out and make sure you download your passport and participate in the “Fall Foodie Tour.” Keep an eye on the Chamber’s social media pages as well to learn more about our participating businesses!

This event is the first in our series for the GoLocal program, a new Chamber initiative to support our locally owned, independent small business members to keep local dollars local and boost our local economy – a WIN-WIN for all involved.

Everyone can participate in this FREE community event. Community members can download a Fall Foodie Tour Passport from the Chamber website (www.smfcc.com), and if they visit a minimum of six participating local restaurants during the month of October, they can then return the completed passport to the Chamber office (P.O. Box 2714, Stow, OH 44224) by Sunday, Nov. 5 to be entered into a drawing to win a GoLocal e-gift card, our community cash card.

Our goal is to build this Shop Local community feeling in Stow and Munroe Falls. By shopping locally here, we support our independently owned business members, whose owners could be your neighbors and friends. The GoLocal program offers three opportunities: marketing support for our participating business members who do the events, the ability to drive foot traffic into these businesses who participate, and a way for our community to find and support our local members! The GoLocal e-gift card program enables shoppers to support participating businesses throughout the year and makes great stocking stuffers, birthday presents, teacher’s gifts and more.

Want to learn more about the Chamber and how we can help your business? Give us a call at (330) 688-1579.

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