Lorain/Elyria, OH
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 a third [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]