Archive for August 25th, 2007
High school football scoreboard: Week 1
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Week I Midview 13, Elyria 7 Elyria Catholic 49, Cleveland East 0 Keystone 34, Monroeville 8 Nordonia 28, Amherst 20 Olmsted Falls 40, St. Francis DeSales 21 Western Reserve 16, Black River 13 Brookside 19, Firelands 3 Lutheran West 43, Fairview 29 Norwayne 46, Wellington 23 North Olmsted 20, Valley Forge 13 [...]
Midview flexes its muscle against Elyria
ELYRIA — Upfront. That’s where football games are usually won. It was no different Friday night, as Midview controlled the line of scrimmage for a 13-7 opening-night win over Elyria at Ely Stadium. The Middie defense threw a blanket over the Pioneers all night. Elyria’s rushing total was in the negative thanks in part to [...]
Elyria Catholic gets off to fast start
ELYRIA — Elyria Catholic opened the football season with a night of firsts. The Panthers scored a touchdown on their first offensive play, and a touchdown on their first snap of the second half. Sophomore Alex Alicea scored a touchdown the first time he touched the ball, and defensive end Joe Fitch also reached the [...]
Keystone alters history, wins opener
MONROEVILLE — The Keystone Wildcats had grown bitterly accustomed to their annual Week 1 ritual. Year after year, the faces would change, but the results would not. The Monroeville Eagles would kick off the football season with a thorough whipping of the Wildcats. Monroeville had dominated the series with 25 wins in their 27 meetings. [...]
Doug Clarke: Should it really be this tough to pick a backup QB?
Of all things … Romeo, Romeo, where the … art thou? Listen, didn’t anyone ever tell you that making no decision is, in fact, making one? Whether it is a coin flip, a wet finger in the air, paper-scissors-rock, bottle caps, drawing straws or Russian roulette, the decision has been made to put fate on [...]
Tribe offense wastes another C.C. gem
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — C.C. Sabathia again pitched like one of the game’s dominant left-handers. And again, he didn’t get a win Sabathia gave up two runs — one on a ground out and the other on a sacrifice fly — in eight innings, but suffered a 2-1 loss to the Kansas City Royals. Zack [...]
Boys golf preview: Hard work, talent paying off for Elyria’s Treuel
Two holes during a no-pressure practice round with his Elyria High teammates on the Pioneers’ home course is not exactly a harbinger of how Alex Treuel’s senior season will pan out. They can, however, shine a light on just why there’s such optimism surrounding it. On one hole at Forest Hills, a 320-yard par 4, [...]
Frye the guy as Browns prepare for dress rehearsal
DENVER — For most NFL teams, the third preseason game is the dress rehearsal. The starters play a half or three quarters, as they try to fine-tune things in their last significant action before the regular season. The Browns aren’t most teams. Most teams aren’t still trying to pick a starting quarterback. “Our approach this [...]
Cuts ahead for Elyria fire station staffs
ELYRIA — Elyria officials say minimum staffing levels at the city’s fire stations will be “indefinitely” reduced from 17 to 14 on Monday to help the fire department make budget this year, but Elyria Fire Chief John Zielinski warns the move will put the safety of residents and fire crews at risk. “It’s a pretty [...]
Advocates work to protect firefighters
Ask any folks who were in Lorain County on June 24, 1971 —they’ll probably say that four shipbuilders were the only lives engulfed in the fiery bowels of the ore ship Roger Blough when a blaze erupted inside the docked vessel at American Shipbuilding Co. in Lorain. JASON MILLER / CHRONICLE Kara Afrates, of Lorain, [...]
Rigda: Every student counts
ELYRIA — Friday morning, Elyria Schools Superintendent Paul Rigda had starfish on the brain. COURTESY ELYRIA SCHOOLS Part of an illustration by Paula Pindroh showing a teacher and student rescuing starfish. Superintendent Paul Rigda used the artwork Friday to help inspire Elyria teachers. Probably 12 of them, since that’s the number of students who needed [...]
Lorain marks its 200th anniversary
LORAIN — Before there was steel, a tiny marketplace provided the backbone for a young city at the mouth of the Black River. It took another 100 or so years, but that marketplace eventually grew into Ohio’s 10th-largest city. Beginning today, Lorain will celebrate the 200th anniversary of its humble beginnings by taking residents on [...]
Police briefs: Aug. 25
Elyria man charged with killing his cat ELYRIA — A 36-year-old man was arrested on charges of cruelty to animals after he allegedly killed his cat for scratching him, a police report said. Graig Astorino of the 200 block of Brenthaven told police he was inside his home about 7 p.m. Wednesday drinking beer when [...]
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Gunmen and troops clash in Baghdad
BAGHDAD — U.S. helicopters blasted rooftops in a Shiite neighborhood before dawn Friday as American troops battled gunmen on the ground, killing at least eight by the military’s count. Shiites claimed some civilians died and radicals castigated Iraq’s government as being too weak to rein in the Americans. The criticism put new pressure on the [...]
Mistaken airstrike kills British soldiers
KABUL, Afghanistan — A U.S. warplane mistakenly dropped a 500-pound bomb on British troops after they called for air support in Afghanistan, killing three soldiers and seriously wounding two others in an accident that could re-ignite debate about America’s heavy use of air power. Friendly fire involving U.S. troops has led to the deaths of [...]
Welcome, children of all ages
BIRMINGHAM — Mother Nature has not been a friend to the many landscapers working on the new Schoepfle Children’s Garden. Crews faced sweltering temperatures on some days and torrential downpours on others. It have been easy for anyone to believe a Sept. 1 opening was not possible. However, itis not only possible, but it will [...]
Judge allows ‘Tic Tac Fruit’ to continue
A judge stopped the state Friday from enforcing an order that prohibits bars and other businesses from using electronic gambling machines, lawyers in the case said. The temporary restraining order, granted by Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Guy Reece, allows the 27 Lorain County establishments operating with the “Tic Tac Fruit” game to continue. The [...]
Off The Beat, Aug. 25, 2007
You’re a good spud, Charlie Brown ELYRIA — Some people think they see images of Jesus or the Virgin Mary in their food. But Loretta Clowers, of Elyria, said she sees cartoon characters and animals. You will have to use your imagination, but Clowers said this summer she has grown an Idaho potato that looks [...]
Bobby Cutts Jr. pleads not guilty
CANTON — A police officer pleaded not guilty Friday to killing his pregnant girlfriend, whose corpse was found in a park and whose toddler son gave investigators some of their strongest clues. Bobby Cutts Jr. could be sentenced to die if convicted in the deaths of Jessie Davis and her unborn daughter. He nodded at [...]
Tractor pull power excites fair crowd
WELLINGTON — Brad Jerew of the “Wild Times Pulling Team” based in Richwood, drove two-plus hours to the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington to be part of the Class A 2007 Ohio State Tractor Pull. But, before he sat upon his blue triple-engine Ford modified tractor, he had to give it a final shine. “I [...]
State sues Judge James Burge
ELYRIA — Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge is being sued by the Ohio Attorney General’s Office for exceeding his jurisdiction in a capital murder case. The writ of prohibition filed Wednesday by Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann’s office calls for the Ohio Supreme Court to stop Burge from holding a hearing where murder [...]
Man offers reward for info on ATV theft
LAGRANGE TWP. — A rash of thefts in Grafton, LaGrange, Eaton Township and LaGrange Township has prompted a local resident to put up a $5,000 reward in order to bust the person who stole his all-terrain vehicle. Brad Setliff placed signs in the front yard of his Wheeler Road home that read “Reward for Thieves [...]
Fire departments get security money
Two local fire departments have received a portion of a more than $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security through the Assistance to Firefighters Grants Program. The Vermilion Township Fire Department received $107,093, while the Grafton Village Fire Department received a little more than $32,000, according to a press release from the [...]
Nordson seals $45M deal
WESTLAKE — Nordson Corp. has acquired TAH Industries, a Robbinsville, N.J., company that manufactures dispensing systems for adhesives and sealants. Nordson paid $45 million for the company, which employs 180 people in a 90,000-square-foot facility, Nordson President Peter S. Hellman said. The work done at the former TAH facility is similar to Nordson’s EFD division [...]