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Kent's township neighbor: Brady Lake, Twin Lakes and seven kettle lakes on the Cuyahoga.
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Garage door springs replaced and adjusted by Proactive Garage Door Repair in Franklin Township, Ohio
Garage door spring replacement job by Proactive Garage Door Repair in Brimfield Township, Ohio
Garage door spring replacement job by Proactive Garage Door Repair
Garage door opener work by our local technician for a customer in Ravenna.
Garage door springs replaced and adjusted by Proactive Garage Door Repair in Rootstown Township, Ohio
Garage door springs, tracks and hardware serviced by Proactive Garage Door Repair in Streetsboro, Ohio
Garage door exterior at a Proactive Garage Door Repair customer home
Garage door spring repair by Proactive Garage Door Repair
Residential garage door on a Proactive Garage Door Repair job
This page is for Franklin Township in Portage County, the township that wraps around Kent on the north and east. The 2020 census recorded 6,283 people, 2,399 households and 3,074 housing units here. It is mostly rural, and it shares a history, a school district and a ZIP code with Kent.
A lake cottage at Brady Lake, a ranch near Twin Lakes, a newer house off Route 43: we work on the garage doors of all of them. Springs, cables, openers, tracks and new doors, with same-day service on most calls, often within 1 hour.
Steel doors from Clopay, Amarr and Wayne Dalton come in carriage-house, raised-panel and modern styles, insulated if you use the garage year-round. See new door installation. We also fit Chamberlain and Genie openers; opener installation.
Aaron Olmsted of East Hartford, Connecticut, bought this survey township at 12.5 cents an acre and named it for his son, Aaron Franklin Olmsted. The first settlers, John and Sally Haymaker and their family, came west from Warren in November 1805 and built a gristmill in 1807. Long before them, Mound Builders raised a burial mound in what is now Towners Woods Park, and Captain Samuel Brady is said to have hidden in Brady Lake after leaping the Cuyahoga around 1780.
The Franklin Township Hall was built in 1837 for a silk company that failed before it was finished, and the township has used it as its seat of government since 1840. Kent separated from the township in 1993, as did the village of Brady Lake, which dissolved in 2017 and rejoined the township. Township residents keep their own wells and septic systems.
Officially the township is outside Lake Erie's snowbelt, but it falls within what is called the secondary snowbelt, so certain wind directions still deliver heavy lake-effect snow. January and February can also bring thaws above 50 degrees, and those freeze-thaw swings are rough on a garage door's bottom seal and springs.
If the door refuses to rise on a cold morning, suspect a spring before the opener. Call us instead of forcing it. A fall tune-up cuts the odds of that morning ever coming.
Lake Rockwell, the main drinking water source for Akron, is in the northeast of the township; it was created in 1913 by impounding the Cuyahoga River. The township also has seven natural kettle lakes. The largest, Lake Pippen, belongs to Akron as an unused part of its water supply, while Brady Lake, East Twin Lake and West Twin Lake are used for recreation. The Twin Lakes straddle State Route 43, the township's main north-south road, with the Twin Lakes neighborhood on either side just south of Sugar Bush Knolls.
Most students attend the Kent City School District, which absorbed the Franklin Township and Brady Lake districts in 1959. The Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority has its headquarters on Summit Road in the township. Lucien B. Smith, regarded as the inventor of barbed wire, lived in the Kent and Franklin Township area.
Excellent, quick, and professional service! I highly recommend.
Mervat N. · September 2026
Poactive was very professional and stayed late to repair our springs so there was no problems. Highly recommend!
Robin L. · September 2026 · Spring repair
Fast and honest repair. Great service and advice. Next day service !
Derek G. · September 2026
Very friendly and knowledgeable with our door problems. Clearly able to do work professionally. Highly recommend Proactive!
John M. · September 2026
Installed new door & opener. Great service from initial service appt to installation.
Beth P. · September 2026 · Opener
We called proactive they came on time and great service and wonderful to work with the company
Narsimha K. · September 2026
Yes. This page covers Franklin Township in Portage County, including Brady Lake and Twin Lakes.
Keep the hardware lubricated and replace rusted rollers and hinges before they seize. A galvanized steel door holds up best near water.
Of course. We bring everything needed to repair or replace the door wherever it stands on the property.
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Brady Lake, Twin Lakes or anywhere off Route 43, call and a technician will be on the way.
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