Archive for November 20th, 2007
Shooting victim comes home
The Wellington preacher, who police say was shot by his son, has been released from the hospital. Rev. Mark Petric, 45, was discharged from MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland Friday , according to a hospital spokeswoman. Petric`s house on Peck Wadsworth Road in Brighton Township, where the bloody scene took place last month, was empty Tuesday [...]
Browns: Crennel will take breaks but says team needs to get better
BEREA – Browns coach Romeo Crennel would rather be good than lucky. But for one game, he`ll take lucky. Less than 24 hours after the unlikeliest of wins, Crennel smiled and laughed more than ever in a half-hour news conference. He had reason, as the Browns improved to 6-4 with a 33-30 overtime win over [...]
‘Pay as you throw’ now a go
LORAIN – City Council passed the controversial “pay as you throw” trash plan Monday, just two weeks after rejecting it and slamming the lid on millions of dollars in recycling grant money for the city and the rest of Lorain County. Lorain`s approval gives the county Solid Waste Management District the green light to implement [...]
Lorain lockup almost ready to reopen cells
Officials in Lorain plan to reopen the city jail between mid-December and New Year`s Day. The city has spent $350,000 over the past three months to renovate the old jail on the third floor of the police station on West Erie Avenue, dividing it into five blocks of seven cells each and 34 beds. There [...]
Browns notes: Cribbs on historic pace
BEREA – Kick returner Joshua Cribbs isn`t just having a Pro Bowl season. He`s having a season for all time. Cribbs` 306 return yards Sunday (franchise-record 245 on kickoffs, 61 punts) ranks third in NFL history. New Orleans` Tyrone Hughes had 347 in 1994 and Chicago`s Devin Hester 314 on Sept. 30. According to the [...]
Council approval wasn`t needed for land deal
LORAIN – City Council`s approval wasn`t needed to give Riverview Realty Management Co. an option to buy land at Riverbend Commerce Park, according to city planner Don Romancik. During a meeting Sunday where eastside residents raised concerns about the proposed development of a limestone grinding factory at Riverbend, Councilman Tony Krasienko said he planned to [...]
LCCAA makes changes
LORAIN – The Lorain County Community Action Agency is making some changes to help steer the agency and the people it serves in the right direction, according to executive director William Locke. The agency, which came under fire in 2006 after accusations of inflating enrollment numbers and misusing grant money, hopes some new services will [...]
Government offices closing Thursday
ELYRIA – City, county, state and federal offices will be closed Thursday and Friday in observance of the Thanksgiving Day holiday. Exceptions are safety services, such as police and fire departments, which will be on duty. Sanitation collections by Elyria and Allied Waste Services will not be made on Thursday, but will resume on Friday, [...]
Wellington, get on your bikes and ride!
Village is a stop on statewide cycling tour this summer WELLINGTON – The roads around Wellington will resemble rivers of bicycles when an estimated 3,000 people descend on the Lorain County Fairgrounds for the 20th annual Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure in June. The cyclists arrive June 14, camp overnight and start cycling an average of [...]
Cavaliers: Ilgauskas eating up the minutes
INDEPENDENCE – Cavaliers coach Mike Brown has a problem with the amount of minutes he`s playing center Zydrunas Ilgauskas. Ilgauskas does not. “Any player is lying if he says he doesn`t want to be out there more,” the 7-foot-3, 260-pounder said Monday following a practice at Cleveland Clinic Courts. “Even if I didn`t feel well, [...]
Fire contained at Choo Choo`s in LaGrange
LAGRANGE – A small-town coffee shop caught fire Monday night. Firefighters from LaGrange and Wellington responded to Choo Choo`s shortly after 9 p.m. after receiving reports that the eatery in the 100 block of Railroad Street was on fire. Residents standing nearby said flames were shooting outside the top and front of the building when [...]
High school hockey 2007-08: EC duo to determine Panthers’ fate
ELYRIA – It might be hard to believe, but Richie Baker and Brad Moore never shared the ice until the two of them got to high school. “There is a cutoff for age,” said Baker, Elyria Catholic`s star left wing and the leading returning scorer among high school hockey players on the west side of [...]
Girls basketball: Ridgeville beats Wellington to move to 2-0
WELLINGTON – “Sloppy” would be an understatement to describe Wellington`s 47-22 victory over North Ridgeville in a non-conference game Monday night. North Ridgeville committed a whopping 45 turnovers, with double-digit totals in every quarter, while Wellington added 26 of its own. That means 71 possessions resulted in a traveling call, bad pass, fumble or some [...]
Elyria officials get pay raises
ELYRIA – Seven of 10 Elyria Council members on Monday approved raises for the city`s mayor, auditor and law director, though the Council rejected – by a 5-to-5 vote – a wage increase that was proposed for the Council president and Council committee members. The initial wage increase that was drafted last week for the [...]
Oberlin confronts crimes by teens
OBERLIN – A recent crime wave in this quiet college town has scared townspeople and college students alike. Within the space of a month, there have been three shootings, two armed robberies, a fire in a school and a fight outside of a dormitory at Oberlin College. While police have made arrests in most of [...]
Family uncovers forgotten cemetery
VERMILION – They`re supposed to be places where the dead can rest forever and be remembered and reflected upon by the living, but a cemetery on Lake Road in Vermilion was anything but – until it was uncovered this summer in a fit of curiosity. Ruth Langham and her children Dawn, 15, and Stanley, 12, [...]
Monna Marie Carmen
Monna Marie Carmen, 77, of LaGrange, passed away Saturday, November 17, 2007, at home after a brief illness. She was born Monday, May 26, 1930, in Wellington, living in Lorain County all her life. She was a homemaker and housewife who enjoyed animals, feeding the birds and enjoyed the outdoors. She is survived by one [...]
Hazel Louise Walker
Hazel Louise Walker, 87, of Oberlin, died Saturday, November 17, 2007, at Allen Medical Center, after a short illness. She was born November 14, 1920, and lived in the Oberlin area since 1946. She co-owned Walker Mower Sales & Service with her husband, Fred, for 45 years until its closing in 2004. Hazel was a [...]
Blotter: Nov. 20, 2007
Elyria police Thursday, Nov. 15 7 a.m. – 500 block East St., earrings, work keys, a CD player and CDs were stolen from a vehicle. 9:16 a.m. – Tokyo Steak House, Midway Mall, two samurai swords worth $200 each were stolen. 9:30 a.m. – 200 block Denison Ave., attempted burglary. 10:18 a.m. – 900 block [...]
College football: Title race thinning out
The national championship race is down to a half dozen contenders. With two weeks left in the regular season, LSU, Kansas, Missouri, West Virginia, Ohio State and Arizona State are the only teams left with aspirations to play in the BCS title game in New Orleans on Jan. 7. Let`s handicap the field: LSU Games [...]
Francis R. Radcliff
Francis R. Radcliff, 74, of North Eaton, passed away, Sunday, November 18, 2007, at EMH Regional Medical Center, Elyria, following a long illness. He was born in Weston, W.Va., and had lived in North Eaton the past 46 years moving from Cleveland. He was a 1951 graduate of Weston High School. He served with both [...]
Baseball: A-Rod wins third AL MVP Award
NEW YORK – Alex Rodriguez is headed back to the New York Yankees as the American League`s Most Valuable Player. A-Rod won his third AL MVP award Monday, easily defeating Detroit`s Magglio Ordonez after compiling an astounding season at the plate. Rodriguez received 26 first-place votes and 382 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers` [...]
Drug use, sex common in strip clubs, former dancer says
CLEVELAND – A former stripper testified Monday she had seen freewheeling drug use and sexual activity when she performed at clubs in seven states. Julie Shematz testified in support of a new state law that bans contact between exotic dancers and their customers. Her testimony came during the second day of a hearing in which [...]
Michigan’s Carr leaves on own terms
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Lloyd Carr alternately choked up and chuckled for nearly 40 minutes Monday, as he announced his 13th season as Michigan football coach will be his last. “I wanted to be able to walk out of here knowing that to the very last minute, I did my job to the best of [...]
Erma M. Grobe
Erma M. Grobe (nee Youngeberg), died Monday, November 19, 2007, following a long illness. Born in LaGrange, May 3, 1921, she had been a resident of Lorain County all her life. Before her illness, Erma was active at the Grobe Fruit Farm family-owned business in establishing the third generation of business. As a young girl, [...]