Brandywine golf course

The state has announced $350 million in funding to cleanup brownfield sites around the state, including one in Summit County that may come as a surprise.

Village officials are concerned that losing the acres of potential taxable land will put more pressure on their already strained budget.

It's been more than a year since golfers teed off at the former Brandywine Country Club. But the next visitors might be wearing hiking boots instead of golf shoes. The Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park signed an agreement to buy the site Thursday. Conservancy CEO Deb Yandala says the park has been interested in the land for quite awhile, in part because the parcel sits in the middle of the park.