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.

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Fallscast theme and interstitials composed and performed by Alex Hall.

Censorship sound courtesy soundjay.com

*A discussion on trans rights

*Cell phone fires

*Cuyahoga Falls Collection

*Mud Brook Trail

*And. So. Much. More

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Fallscast theme and interstitials composed and performed by Alex Hall.

Interim music: “I am the Walrus” by The Beatles (1967)