More than 500 show up outside school board meeting LORAIN — More than 500 people filled the lawn outside a Lorain elementary school Monday — all wanting to ask questions they say haven’t been answered by school officials in the wake of massive cuts to the district. Their questions seemed simple enough: Will my children [...]

LORAIN — If angry teachers and residents can get enough signatures, they might be able to force a county judge or a jury to review whether Lorain school board members who voted in favor of massive layoffs in the district should be removed from office. But to do so, they’d have to prove the board [...]

LORAIN — Lorain school officials have not decided which teachers won’t be back in the classroom next year. The district already notified 246 teachers that they would be let go, but the precise positions that will be axed and those that might be spared are under review, Board President Jeanine Donaldson told the nearly 500 [...]

ELYRIA — Maybe it takes a little kid in an ol’ grandpa’s body to show folks how just how much fun the old days could be. “That’s how I stay young,” said Ted Dowdell, of Elyria Township. “I’m just an old great-grandpa who never really grew up.” Dowdell, 85, is hoping to transport Lorain County [...]

ELYRIA — In the coming years, we all could be playing SPPoker. It combines the fast action of poker with the word fascination of Scrabble. The specially designed cards have the regular playing cards symbols in one corner and letters of the alphabet in another. You can win points three ways: by having the best [...]