PERRY TWP. − Stark Parks rangers will conduct water rescue training Wednesday at Sippo Lake. The training will involve rangers taking part in various simulated scenarios. The training will ...

Pike Ridge Park is 520 acres and offers 5 miles of hiking and equestrian trails. Stark Parks plans to expand the trail system and preserve the park land through a conservation easement.

Dan Moeglin, executive director of Stark Parks, said he first visited the property 20 years ago in 2005 and knew it would make a great park. "This has been a long term dream of mine," he said.

And now the island has been captured by Stark in a style that pays tribute to the parks — and the park posters that a former ranger, who now calls himself the “Ranger of the Lost Art ...