Students’ ingenuity tested ELRYIA — What happens when you put one NASA scientist, two artists, three musicians, a filmmaker, an eighth-grade science teacher and about 100 of her students together? Before you answer that question throw in some PVC piping, irrigation hoses, plumbing fixtures, spool upon spool of heavy gauge wire, plastic twist ties, and [...]

OBERLIN — A community activist who fought development of a Wal-Mart north of town and continues to fight a housing and commercial project downtown has been charged with criminal mischief in connection with pamphlets posted on newspaper boxes. Mark Chessler, 49, of Amherst Township, vowed to fight the charge and pleaded not guilty at his [...]

VERMILION — On Nov. 6, the Ritter Public Library will ask residents to do something has requested only once before in the library’s 88-year history. The library’s leaders want to expand the building, and they hope taxpayers will pass a bond issue to get it done. The library’s board voted Tuesday night to put a [...]

ELYRIA – A feud that has divided an Avon church and plunged the congregation into nearly a decade of legal fights could come to an end next week. Visiting Judge Lynett McGough told both sides Tuesday that she will make a decision in the lawsuit June 13. The two sides have been fighting over how [...]

LORAIN — Lorain school officials are reeling over a budget shortfall expected to reach a staggering $4.75 million in just weeks, though a tentative agreement passed by the teachers union late Tuesday could help.  School officials said Thursday the deficit — discovered after a recent review of the district’s finances — could result in across-the-board [...]

VERMILION — The grateful great-grandchildren — or even great-great grandchildren — of the French who were liberated by the Allied forces were among those who thanked veteran John Grasse on the sands of Omaha Beach last month. “Each of us held the hand of a little child as we walked to the beach,” said Grasse, [...]