Archive for September 1st, 2007
Mid-D domination: Midview’s defense shuts down Amherst
EATON TWP. — Even facing a scintillating runner like Brandon Kish, Midview’s defenders stood tall. One week after stifling Elyria High’s rushing offense with minus yardage, the Middies had a greater challenge Friday night when Kish and the Amherst Comets came to Adelsberg Stadium. Just one week ago Kish shredded Nordonia for 196 yards rushing [...]
Elyria Catholic wins big, still sees room for improvement
ELYRIA — Quarterback Cody Schuster said he doesn’t think the Elyria Catholic football team is where it ought to be. Coach Ben Malbasa agreed. Really? This was in the aftermath of the Panthers’ 42-6 thrashing of Southview in non-conference action Friday night at Knights of Columbus Field. So if they’re not where they need to [...]
Big plays power Elyria to first win of season
ELYRIA — It’s been 21 years since Elyria High last played Marion Harding in football. But it may want to consider keeping the Presidents on the schedule. Unbelievable best describes the latest Pioneer assassination of the Prexies, 35-14, at Ely Stadium Friday night. Consider this: • Elyria ran back two fumbles for touchdowns — 88 [...]
Pluck and luck carry Indians to seventh straight win
CLEVELAND — Welcome to Ozzie Guillen’s world. The Chicago White Sox manager has gone public with harsh criticism of his players on a number of occasions this week. Friday night at Jacobs Field, the Indians and their fans got to see why. Guillen’s last-place Sox were en route to ending Cleveland’s season-long winning streak in [...]
Tribe notes: Dellucci’s return not a sure thing
CLEVELAND — The prospect of outfielder David Dellucci returning to help the Indians is beginning to look bleak. Though manager Eric Wedge said Thursday that Dellucci would accompany the team on its upcoming 10-game road trip (beginning Monday in Minnesota), he did not sound optimistic that Dellucci was ready to begin a minor league rehab [...]
Doug Clarke: Musings on the sports world and beyond
Just becuz no one asked … • Yes, Virginia, there is still plenty of time left in the season for the Red Sox to fold — especially with Manny Being Manny deciding that a three-game series against the Yankees would be a good time to rest his strained oblique. • The Indians, bless their hearts, [...]
College football: Could this be the Yeomen’s year?
OBERLIN — It wasn’t his best effort, statistically. Not by a long shot. But the Kenyon game of Nov. 4, 2006, is Chris Schubert’s fondest memory in his three years of playing football for Oberlin College. “It was a shootout,” said Schubert, a wide receiver and native of Oberlin. “We knew we would have to [...]
Browns’ preseason stirs feelings of optimism
CHICAGO — Bring on the Steelers. The sentiment Thursday night inside the Browns’ locker room would’ve been the same regardless of what happened in the preseason. But a 19-9 win over the Bears, a 3-1 record and general competitiveness left the Browns feeling good about themselves with a regular-season visit from Pittsburgh next up on [...]
Ex-commissioner avoids jail
Court: Michael Ross must still pay more than $1,000 by Sept. 30 ELYRIA — Former county Commissioner Michael Ross avoided prison Friday for failing to pay child support to two of his children, but that could change if he doesn’t pay some of the back support by Sept. 30. CHUCK HUMEL / CHRONICLE Former Commissioner [...]
Off the beat: Sept. 1, 2007
You call this hot? And we thought it was hot here last week when temperatures soared into the 90s? Trust me, it’s all relative. COURTESY OF JOHN WALLACE John Wallace, an Elyria teacher stationed in Iraq, stands by a thermometer reading 130 degrees. As proof, I offer this picture of Elyria High teacher John Wallace, [...]
Burned boy returns home
ELYRIA — A 7-year-old boy with Down syndrome who was burned after he dumped a pot of hot coffee onto his chest and stomach is out of the hospital, but far from being OK, his family said. The second-degree burns Jacob Moss of Elyria received on 40 percent of his body are clean and not [...]
Deputy quits to teach
ELYRIA — A sheriff’s deputy who was the last county law enforcement officer to be shot in the line of duty has retired. Sgt. Shawn Hadaway, 50, has taken a position as instructor of the law enforcement program with Lorain County Joint Vocation School, where he has been working for the past week while using [...]
Couple ordered to quell cats’ smell
ELYRIA — A Taft Avenue couple who run a foster home for cats have been ordered by the Elyria City Health Department to eliminate the smell generated by the cats’ urine by Sept. 11.And this isn’t the first time Kimberly Vitruls has been told by the city to “eliminate noxious odors.” The order, issued by [...]
Tilled till the end of time?
In Rochester and Huntington townships, a 176-year-old farm will stay that way thanks to a state easement More than 1,000 picturesque acres of farmland in the southwestern corner of the county will remain that way in the future as a result of a deal with the state. BRUCE BISHOP / CHRONICLE Jarvis Babcock in front [...]
Fire department gets mower, moody note
COURTESY OF TMCNEWS.COM It seems that the fight between the Elyria firefighters and the city administration is getting personal. On Friday morning, Elyria street department workers delivered a 21-inch push lawn mower to the fire station at Bell Avenue and state Route 57 with a note attached reading: “Mow your own grass for now on. [...]
Jiffy Products plans 25 new jobs in Lorain
LORAIN — A third company might be moving into Ford Motor Co.’s old Lorain Assembly Plant. Jiffy Products — not to be confused with the peanut butter manufacturer — has promised 25 full-time jobs with an annual payroll of $1.4 million if it opens in Lorain, said Don Romancak, the city’s chief planner. The multinational [...]
A trader, diplomat and others enter Vermilion High as students
VERMILION — Each year since 2005, officials at Vermilion High School have searched its alumni list for the best of the best for induction into the Hall of Fame. This year’s class of inductees certainly proved honorable as it includes an artist, a former high school football player turned commodities trader, an author and real [...]
Report: Sen. Larry Craig to step down
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig will resign from the Senate amid a furor over his arrest and guilty plea in a police sex sting in an airport men’s room, Republican officials said Friday. Craig will announce at a news conference in Boise this morning that he will resign effective Sept. 30, GOP [...]
Winning Mega Millions ticket reportedly sold in Maryland
A Maryland lottery official said early today that a winning Mega Millions ticket for Friday’s estimated $330 million jackpot was sold at a liquor store in Baltimore County. Maryland Lottery Director Buddy Roogow said a winning ticket was sold at Walther Liquors in Nottingham at 5:10 p.m. Friday, and that the winner had not come [...]
Here’s one lucky couple …
NEW YORK — How lucky can you get? Adeline and Eugene Angelo won $5 million Thursday after buying the winning ticket in last week’s New York Lotto. In 1996, they won $2.5 million after splitting a $10 million jackpot with three other people. AP The couple holds a poster representing a $5 million New [...]
Elyria GOP head resigns his post
ELYRIA — Dan Graves, the chairman of the Elyria Republican Party, resigned his post Thursday, effective immediately.Graves, who has said he would leave because his job was too demanding, will be replaced in the interim by Ray Noble, the vice chairman. Graves will remain as a precinct committeeman. Noble said there’ll be a Sept. 15 [...]
Are you begging for the Buckeyes?
Opening game only on Big Ten Network, but local bars will show game vs. YSU COLUMBUS — Bar managers are calling in extra servers, checking their DirecTV connections and stocking up on buffalo wings and beer for the first Ohio State football game of the year, as fans without access to the new Big Ten [...]
Police Blotter: Sept. 1, 2007
Elyria police Wednesday, Aug. 29 8 a.m. – 500 block Ternes Ave., $12,000 worth of copper wiring stolen from lot. 9 a.m. – 800 block Taylor St., 12 windows broken in building. 10:30 a.m. – 200 block Warden Ave., vandals spray-painted graffiti on building. 11 a.m. – 600 block Lowell St., catalytic converter stolen off [...]
Lorain sets Labor Day celebration
LORAIN — It began with a parade of 10,000 workers in New York City on Sept. 5, 1882. Since then, cities across the country have paid their own tribute to the working man and woman with festivities and fun fit for the whole family each Labor Day. But few can do it like Lorain, which [...]
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