ELYRIA — City Council put off accepting a building donation from the Nordson Corporation Foundation until it can clear up concerns with the property agreement. The ordinance authorizing the city to accept four parcels, and a more-than-22,500-square-foot-building along the 1800 block of Middle Avenue, was sent back to the Community Development Committee for more discussion, [...]

ELYRIA — A Lorain mother who left her baby alone in a garage while she traveled to Pennsylvania over Thanksgiving weekend was sentenced Monday to four years in prison. Heather Heck, 24, tearfully apologized before county Common Pleas Judge Edward Zaleski while the father of her now-1-year-old son, Samuel, and his family looked on. Samuel [...]

Allison Wood The Medina County Gazette MEDINA — Last week’s controversial decision to approve an interchange at Interstate 90 off Nagel Road in Avon — and what Avon officials had to give up to get it approved — prompted Medina County commissioners to talk about withdrawing from the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordination Agency. A Medina [...]

ELYRIA — You’d probably have to wait another 100 or so years to see a repeat of the event that played out at Sixth Street and Middle Avenue on Monday. As Elyria school board member Ginny Hawes said, “It’s very humbling to be a part of such a significant time in our history.” A gleeful [...]

ELYRIA — If you have been anxiously awaiting arrival of your absentee ballot, you may have to wait a few days longer. The ballots, which normally are sent out Oct. 2, weren’t put in the mail until Monday and today. The ballots were ready to be printed Oct. 2 but had to be reordered because [...]

ELYRIA — A Lorain man was shot in the back early Sunday in the Westway Garden housing complex. A resident from the 800 block of Allen Street called police after hearing two gunshots about 5:15 a.m., Elyria police Lt. Andy Eichenlaub said. When police arrived, they found Antonio T. Ward, 24, lying on the grass [...]

Students work on $7M unmanned blimp SANDUSKY — One part blimp and 100 parts technology, the aerostat is among the latest research projects playing out at NASA’s Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, a 6,400-acre facility chock-full of mystery. And a few Lorain County Community College graduates are a part of it. Carl Sullenberger/CHRONICLE T.J. Zmina, [...]