Archive for June 13th, 2007
Lorain Mayor Craig Foltin leaving office
Lorain Mayor Craig Foltin will leave his job in August to take the top finance post at Cuyahoga Community College. City Republicans will choose a replacement to serve out the remaining months of Foltin’s term, which expires at the end of the year. Foltin, who announced earlier this year that he would not run for [...]
No charm, No foul
Cavs down 3-0 to Spurs after LeBron’s last shot bounces out Game 3: San Antonio: 75 Cleveland: 72 The shots refused to go down. So did the Spurs. As a result, the Cavs are just barely standing following Tuesday night’s 75-72 loss in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. The situation is this: One more [...]
Cavs have no shot
Shooting woes put Cleveland in bad situation nba finals: SPURS 75, CAVALIERS 72 CLEVELAND — If the Cavaliers are going to win their first NBA championship, they are going to have to go where no team has gone before. The San Antonio Spurs went up 3-0 in the NBA Finals with an ugly 75-72 victory [...]
History says Cavaliers are now history
The Cavaliers have worked too hard and accomplished too much this season to be swept out of the NBA Finals. Yet that’s the situation Cleveland is now facing after a brutal 75-72 loss to San Antonio in Game 3 of the best-of-seven series on Tuesday night. At this point, the question isn’t if the Cavaliers [...]
James, Cavaliers battling history, too
Joe Milicia The Associated Press CLEVELAND — Strange things are happening to the pro teams in this city. The Cavaliers are in the NBA finals. The Indians are tied for first place. And the Browns drafted an offensive lineman — in the first round. Could they be signs that the curse blamed for Cleveland’s decades [...]
EHS lays out plans
Homeowners voice concerns over bid to purchase properties ELYRIA — Less than half of about 40 property owners whose homes will be razed or land purchased to make way for a new Elyria High School showed up at a Tuesday meeting where school officials laid out their plans for the coming months. School officials made [...]
Boy, 4, injured by railroad spike
Three boys charged with tossing objects off Lorain bridge LORAIN — A 4-year-old Lorain boy suffered minor cuts on his leg after three Lorain boys threw bricks and an iron railroad spike off the East 28th Street overpass Monday, shattering the windows on two passing cars, a Lorain police report and victims said. The three [...]
Boaters: Beware of flying fish!
Florida woman hurt by leaping sturgeon ROCK BLUFF, Fla. — A woman was injured over the weekend by a leaping sturgeon, the latest incident involving the flying fish on the Suwannee River, officials said. Tara Spears, 32, of Bell, was knocked unconscious by the animal on Sunday while boating on the river north of Rock [...]
Downtown rally unifies Northeast Ohio
CLEVELAND — Whether the Cavs win or lose the NBA Finals, they’ve already done something that might be even more astounding — made the entire Northeast Ohio community “Rise Up” as one. That fact was on pulsating display Tuesday afternoon when more than 1,000 people crowded into downtown Cleveland’s Mall B square for a Cavs [...]
Spared teachers will get future raises
LORAIN — Lorain teachers who didn’t lose their jobs last week won’t get a pay raise this year, but they’ll get three pay increases over the following two years. The raises are included in the Lorain Education Association’s new contract that was approved by the union’s membership last week and by the Lorain school board [...]
Opt out of ‘pay-as-you-throw’ – after trying it out for 2 years
ELYRIA — Bowing to pressure from Lorain and other communities that have expressed reservations over a “pay-as-you-throw” trash program, the county’s Solid Waste Management District’s Policy Committee decided to allow communities to opt out of the program after they complete a two-year test run. The compromise still will force the communities to operate the pilot [...]
Shortfall casts shadow over budget talks
Julie Carr Smyth The Associated Press COLUMBUS — A shortfall that could top $240 million threatened Tuesday to cloud state budget talks thus far so genial that one lawmaker suggested a chorus of “Kumbaya.” The $53.4 billion spending blueprint cleared the Senate Finance Committee unanimously after garnering support from both parties for its priority items. [...]
Strickland calls for gaming crackdown
Stephen Majors The Associated Press COLUMBUS — A proposal to allow a new type of electronic betting at horse racetracks died Tuesday after Gov. Ted Strickland promised to veto it and proposed a crackdown on what he sees as expanded gambling in the state. Strickland, along with Attorney General Marc Dann, called for a ban [...]
Lee Andrew Dumas
Lee Andrew Dumas, 67, of Lorain, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, June 11, 2007 at Lorain Community Health Partners. Mr. Dumas was born September 15, 1939 in Madison, Georgia and had lived in Lorain since 1960. He was a member of Greater St. Matthew A.M.E. Church, Lorain, where he served as a Trustee and was [...]
Leo R. Meyer, Jr.
Leo R. Meyer, Jr., 87, of Spring Hill, FL. and Elyria, died January 30, 2007. He was born August 17, 1919 to Leo R. Meyer, Sr. and Lillian G. Meyer, (past Mother of the Year in 1952). He graduated from Elyria High School in 1937 and attended Kiske Prep School in Saltsburgh, PA. and Miami [...]
Nelson Eugene Woodards
Nelson Eugene Woodards, better known as "Nick", 65, of Lansing, North Carolina, died Friday, June 8, 2007 at Ashe Memorial Hospital. Mr. Woodards was born in West Virginia on December 28, 1941 to the late Thomas Jefferson and Chessie Mae Shepherd Woodards. He worked for United Steel Local 17 as an iron worker. Nick enjoyed [...]