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LOCAL NEWSHOME Prince of Peace parishioners say they're behind Father Arko By Dennis Sadowski, Editor Barberton Aweek after the arrest of Father Richard Arko on a charge of cultivating marijuana, parishioners at Prince of Peace Church say they support him and hope he will return as their pastor. “Parishioners are willing to forgive and have him come back,” said Lawrence Lauter, a lay ecclesial minister who was named parish life coordinator at the church last Friday, the day Father Arko began a leave of absence. “Father Rick has given us a vision of what a caring community is supposed...

Parishioners stand by priest in court Even municipal judge speaks well of cleric facing marijuana case BARBERTON - She was sitting in the middle of the front row of the public seating area in Barberton Municipal Court, clutching a rosary in her lap and praying for the defendant. Beth Douglas, a 41-year-old mathematics teacher at Akron's East High School and a mother of four, was one of more than 20 Prince of Peace Catholic Church parishioners watching in court Wednesday as their pastor, the Rev. Richard A. Arko, appeared before Judge Michael L. Weigand to have an arraignment scheduled. Arko,...

BARBERTON - She was sitting in the middle of the front row of the public seating area in Barberton Municipal Court, clutching a rosary in her lap and praying for the defendant. Beth Douglas, a 41-year-old mathematics teacher at Akron's East High School and a mother of four, was one of more than 20 Prince of Peace Catholic Church parishioners watching in court Wednesday as their pastor, the Rev. Richard A. Arko, appeared before Judge Michael L. Weigand to have an arraignment scheduled. Arko, 40, was arrested by Norton police last week on a felony charge of cultivating marijuana in...