Minerva homes, known.
Minerva sits at the rural corner of Stark County, and the pest pressure reads like it: field mice and rats working in from the farmland every fall, stink bugs massing on south-facing siding by the hundreds, and ground-nesting yellow jackets in every established yard.
The village’s older homes — solid early-1900s stock — come with stone and block foundations that mice read as open architecture. Sealing those entries properly is the difference between a one-time fix and an annual tradition.
Minerva is the far end of the daily route, but it’s on it — the vans make the run every day, and rural-edge calls get the same flat pricing as downtown Canton.