Archive for June 1st, 2007
Elyria High softball team headed to state finals
For the second year in a row, the Elyria High School softball team will be vying for the state title. After two rain delays Friday afternoon at Brookside Park in Ashland, the No. 1 Pioneers finally put unranked Mason away, 2-1. The girls will face Hudson, who beat Pickerington Central, 5-4, on Friday for the [...]
The King rules the court
LeBron scores Cavs’ final 25 points, carries team to within a win of finals cavaliers 109, pistons 107, double over-time AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — LeBron James was phenomenal, unbelievable, awesome, outstanding and tremendous Thursday night at The Palace of Auburn Hills. No, he was better than that. A lot better than that. Give James a [...]
LeBron has a game to remember
“The Chosen One’’ has the Cavaliers on the verge of reaching the promised land. LeBron James turned in one of the greatest performances in NBA history Thursday night, scoring a career-playoff high 48 points as Cleveland rallied for a 109-107 double-overtime win over the Detroit Pistons. The breathtaking win in Game 5 of the Eastern [...]
Indians pound Verlander, Tigers
indians 11, tigers 5 CLEVELAND — Two-time Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana? Bring him on. Reigning Rookie of the Year and American League All-Star Justin Verlander? Him, too. Cowering to top-shelf pitching hasn’t been the Indians’ nature this season, as evidenced again by the rude reception they gave Verlander in an 11-5 victory over [...]
Gutierrez back with big club – Tribe Notes
CLEVELAND — Franklin Gutierrez is back with the Indians. This time, he might even get a chance to play. Gutierrez, a 24-year-old outfielder who logged just three at-bats in his first stint with the Indians from May 6-19, was promoted from Triple-A Buffalo on Thursday, replacing relief pitcher Mike Koplove on Cleveland’s 25-man roster. According [...]
Elyria knows Mason is real
Bob Daniels The Chronicle-Telegram The town is Mason, Ohio, population 29,000, way down south in Warren County. If you think of it at all, you probably think of Kings Island, the amusement park you can see from Interstate 71 just north of Cincinnati. You almost certainly don’t think of high school softball. Well, the time [...]
Strickland: LCCC leads the way
ELYRIA — Ohio’s economic future hinges on education, and Lorain County Community College is serving as an example for the rest of the state in meeting both the educational needs of today’s workers and the workers of the future, Gov. Ted Strickland said Thursday. The governor’s praise came during a two-hour dedication program Thursday for [...]
N. Ridgeville seniors head to ‘infinity’
ELYRIA — As the lights dimmed and the processional music played, the 257 North Ridgeville High School graduating seniors walked across the stage in their yellow and purple gowns. After years of hard work, the students were in the spotlight — sitting center stage at Lorain County Community College’s Stocker Center. But before they could [...]
Class leaves its mark on Clearview
LORAIN — When the class of 2007 at Clearview High School graduates this week, the advanced art students will have left behind a piece of themselves for those who follow. Art teacher Jean Jensen’s seniors have created a mural that depicts various aspects of their journey through their high school years. The students christened the [...]
Slain patrolman Jason West laid to rest in Avon
A sea of officers, an ocean of silence AVON — The thick silence was broken only by the steady thumping of a news helicopter above and the crunching of gravel underneath freshly polished shoes. More than 1,000 officers stood stone-faced in front of the church, long after the steeple bells rang and bagpipes melodically cried [...]
Blast from the past
Former county coroner’s old hand grenade causes some new problems LORAIN — Two seemingly unrelated events Thursday — a hand grenade recovered from a cistern in Lorain and scholarships doled out at a local high school — turned out to be loosely connected in the most remarkable of ways. The strange events began about 2 [...]
Change ahead for churches
One day after Bishop Richard Lennon, head of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, called for a mass reorganization that could force some of its 231 parishes to close or merge, clergy from across Lorain County have decided to embrace the plan as a sign of the times. Wednesday’s announcement that one-third of the 69 parish [...]
Border agent gave man with TB a pass
Greg Bluestein and Devlin Barrett The Associated Press ATLANTA — A globe-trotting Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was allowed back into the U.S. by a border inspector who disregarded a computer warning to stop him and don protective gear, officials said Thursday. The inspector has been removed from border duty. The unidentified [...]
Edwin P. Bolden
Edwin P. Bolden, 73, of Elyria died Thursday, May 31, 2007 after an illness of several months. Friends may call Sunday from 2 to 5 P.M. at the Bauer-Laubenthal Funeral Home, Chestnut Ridge Road at State Route 57, Elyria. Further arrangements will be announced by the funeral home.
Nickolas Bountogianis
Nickolas Bountogianis, 76, and a resident of Vermilion, passed away Wednesday, May 30, 2007, at Community Health Partners in Lorain following a lengthy illness. He was born December 24, 1930 in Andravida, Greece. Nickolas arrived in America in 1960. He had made his home in Elyria for forty years before moving to Vermilion in 2002. [...]
Shirley V. Huston
Shirley V. Huston (nee: Martin), 90, of Elyria died May 30, 2007 at Community Health Partners in Lorain. For the past several years she has been a resident at Mill Manor in Vermilion. She was born August 22, 1916 in Tiffin, OH where she graduated from Columbian High School in 1934 and attended Tiffin Business [...]
Azalia Elizabeth Johnson
Azalia Elizabeth Johnson (nee Sutton), 88, and know as "Red" to friends and family died Thursday, May 24, 2007 at Anchor Lodge Retirement Village in Lorain from complications related to diabetes. Prior to Anchor Lodge, she lived in Oberlin, for over 50 years. She was born in New London, the youngest girl of four children [...]
Carol J. Skaggs
Carol J. Skaggs (nee Hughes), 70, of Lorain, and formerly of Amherst, died Thursday, May 31, 2007 at her residence following a long illness. Family will receive friends at Garland Misencik Funeral Home, 851 Park Avenue, Amherst, on Tuesday, June 5, 5 to 9 P.M. Funeral service will be 11 A.M. Wednesday at the funeral [...]
Treva Lucille Taylor
Treva Lucille Taylor, 83, of Penfield Twp., died Thursday, May 31, 2007 at Samaritan Care Center in Medina. Mrs. Taylor was born November 14, 1923 in Penfield, daughter of the late Joseph Elsworth and May (Hammler) Ray. She graduated from Brighton High School in 1942. Mrs. Taylor was very crafty and loved to sew and [...]
Naomi L. Thomas
Naomi L Thomas (nee Reichert), 83, formerly of Amherst, died Wednesday, May 30 2007 at Wesley Glen, Columbus, after a long illness. She was born August 13, 1923 in Lorain and lived her entire life in Amherst, until moving to make her home with her daughter in Westerville in 2002. Mrs. Thomas was a member [...]
Margery H. Young
Margery H. (nee Kepler) Young, 89, of Wellington died Thursday, May 31st at the Hospice Center in Lorain. Mrs. Young was born April 20, 1918 to the late William Arthur and Florence Marie (nee Cave) Kepler. She was a lifelong resident of Wellington and graduated from Wellington High School in 1936. She attended Ohio University. [...]