Akron is wrapping up the first round of tree plantings this week through Project ACORN, a federally funded urban forestry effort, exceeding the number of trees it had expected get in the ground.

The city aimed to plant 150 trees in five high-need neighborhoods, East Akron, Middlebury, Sherbondy Hill, South Akron and Summit Lake, based on neighborhood data, said Jessica Glowczewski, Akron Water Supply Bureau Project Manager and Watershed Superintendent.

"We looked at census blocks and we looked at some of the more obvious ones like urban canopy cover and pervious and impervious surfaces throughout all of these different neighborhoods in Akron," Glowczewski said, "but we also looked at things like health. So we looked at asthma rates, we looked at urban heating indexes, we looked at air qu

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