📰 American cuts Akron

Issue 7

November 11, 2022

Weather: Today is rainy with a high of 62. 🌧️

Welcome! In Akron Email Review you'll find links to local news and things to do to be a better Summit County citizen.

Each of these emails should take about three minutes to check each day. We publish at 6 a.m. weekdays.

1. American Airlines is cutting its service between Philadelphia and Akron

American cuts 3 routes, adds key transborder flight - The Points Guy

American Airlines is cutting three routes and adding back service between New York's JFK Airport and Toronto.

https://thepointsguy.com/news/american-cuts-routes-adds-jfk-yyz/

Thoughts and prayers for everyone who loves eating cheesesteaks and sitting on rocking chairs during their layovers.

2. Akron guy starts 'dinner and a fight' to get people to stop being so angry

In Ohio, one man’s quest to get more voters to agree to disagree

America is extremely polarized – and that’s not likely to change anytime soon. So is there value, then, in at least getting people to agree to disagree?

https://news.yahoo.com/ohio-one-man-quest-more-134624428.html

"Mr. Wetzel’s disputation dinners in northeast Ohio are among a cascade of bridge-building efforts aimed at countering America’s scorched-earth partisanship. They seek to promote civil dialogue as a path to finding common ground on issues that don’t yield easy solutions, such as policing, immigration, and race relations."

3. Breaking news from sports you never knew were sports

Dinesh Sunar achieves Guinness World Record for most blindfolded standing backwards somersaults in one minute

KATHMANDU, Nov 10: Dinesh Sunar, who currently lives in Akron, Ohio has made a world record for the most blindfolded standing backwards somersaults in one minute during the Guinness World Records (GWR) Day celebration 2022 held on Thursday. Sunar has set the record with 21 somersaults in a minute.

https://myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/mycity/news/dinesh-sunar-achieves-guinness-world-record-for-most-blindfolded-standing-backwards-somersaults-in-one-minute

The guy did 21 blindfolded backward somersaults in a minute, according to this Nepalese publication I found. (Look, I have no clue, I just find this stuff.)

"Dinesh Sunar, who currently lives in Akron, Ohio has made a world record for the most blindfolded standing backwards somersaults in one minute during the Guinness World Records (GWR) Day celebration 2022 held on Thursday."

4. Former Stow Macy's is coming down

5. Akron boxer David Rodriguez heads to Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse

'Got a lot to prove': Akron boxer David Rodriguez ready to make name for himself with fight inside RMFH

Akron boxer David Rodriguez has been fighting for most of his life, but his next time in the ring will be the biggest matchup of his life—fighting on the undercard of the Montana Love event at RMFH.

https://www.news5cleveland.com/sports/local-sports/got-a-lot-to-prove-akron-boxer-david-rodriguez-ready-to-make-name-for-himself-with-fight-inside-rmfh

The fight is 5 p.m. Saturday. Follow the link for info about tickets at the bottom of the story.

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