Archive for November 29th, 2007
Why all the smoke?
Pillows of black smoke filled the 5 p.m. rush hour Thursday in downtown Elyria as fire struck a defunct building along 3rd Street. Elyria fire and EMS crews responded shortly after 4:50 p.m. to the site of the former Lorain County Fair and Riverview Mobile Home Park, and battled strong winds to fight the blaze. [...]
Fickle finger decides Cavs’ fate: LeBron sprains finger in blowout loss
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – LeBron James was grounded at The Palace after lifting his game to rarified air in his previous visit. James sprained his left index finger in the second quarter Wednesday night, and did not return, and the Detroit Pistons went on to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 109-74 Wednesday night. The Pistons insisted [...]
Heels stop feat: No. 1 North Carolina snaps Ohio State’s home winning streak
COLUMBUS – One look at the stunned faces filling the stands at Value City Arena and it was easy to see that Buckeye Nation had forgotten what it was like to witness its men`s basketball team lose a game. But that`s exactly what happened as No. 1 North Carolina snapped Ohio State`s 28-game home winning [...]
Ohio State notes: Buckeyes have been hot against No. 1
COLUMBUS – Ohio State had played the No. 1 team in the country 17 times before Wednesday night`s showdown with top-ranked North Carolina. The Buckeyes` record in those games was 8-9, but they had won six of the last seven – two during Thad Matta`s tenure as coach. Those meetings included last season`s 49-48 win [...]
Browns GM Savage in no hurry to act on possible QB problem
BEREA – At some point, the Browns are going to have to make a choice between Derek Anderson and Brady Quinn. General manager Phil Savage wants to delay the inevitable. “Everybody feels like they have to have one (good quarterback),” Savage said Wednesday in a state-of-the-team news conference. “We feel like we have two. I`d [...]
Browns notes: Savage credits Crennel for turnaround
BEREA – Browns general manager Phil Savage is a rare breed in sports. He is an honest man, perhaps to a fault, especially when it comes to discussing his team. “After our first game, I told somebody, ‘I don`t think we`ll be favored to win a game the rest of the year,`” he admitted Wednesday. [...]
Former Brown Bill Willis was a real NFL pioneer
BEREA – Not long after Romeo Crennel was hired as Cleveland`s first black head coach, he was visited by an elderly man whose strength, courage and sacrifice decades earlier changed the NFL. Bill Willis sat in Crennel`s office that day and talked about football, the Browns and his special life, one that inspired generations of [...]
Prep hockey: Elyria Catholic gives up five goals in third, falls 6-5
ELYRIA – Everything was looking up for Elyria Catholic heading into the third period of Wednesday`s non-divisional hockey game. The Panthers held a 4-1 lead on Western Reserve Academy. They were playing relatively penalty-free, having given WRA only one power-play opportunity through 30 minutes. The final period, however, was a nightmare for EC. Western Reserve [...]
Dan Coughlin: Taylor’s death another case of Miami vice?
The NFL mourns another star, Pro Bowl safety Sean Taylor of the Washington Redskins, gunned down in his own house in Miami early Monday morning. He died early Tuesday. If you want to get shot, Miami`s the place. A year ago a University of Miami player was shot to death while standing in his front [...]
District wants more mall taxes
Elyria school officials say land should be valued at $89 million, not $44 million ELYRIA – Elyria Schools wants to double the value of a good-sized chunk of Midway Mall – a move that, if successful, would double the amount of taxes the district takes in from the mall. The district contends that the value [...]
Avon scouts ball field prospects
City leaders to trek to see Frontier League stadium AVON – City officials are going to Florence, Ky., today to see Champion Window Field, home of the Frontier League`s Florence Freedom, in hopes of gleaning information that as they move to secure Avon`s own minor league baseball team. Mayor Jim Smith will be joined by [...]
‘Historic’ status would help convert school to condos
GRAFTON – People may someday be living where youngsters learned for more than 60 years. STEVE MANHEIM / CHRONICLE Don Longwell of Grafton stands in front of the old Grafton School. Longwell attended the elementary school. Developers have a plan to turn the old Grafton School, 1111 Elm St., built in 1936 during the height [...]
Elyria 2015 planners turn to pollsters
ELYRIA – Two Cleveland-area research firms that helped the Elyria Schools win the May 2007 tax issue will now help city officials measure residents` opinions about municipal services and planning. Scientific polls and research by Westlake-based Triad Research Group and Cleveland-based Burges & Burges are planned for January and early February and will carry a [...]
Sex offender accused of abducting bartender
LORAIN – A registered sex offender is behind bars after police say he robbed an East 28th Street bar early Tuesday, abducted the bartender at gunpoint, forced her to strip and made her perform oral sex. Reginald Roberson, 54, of Cleveland, was charged with aggravated robbery, rape, carrying a concealed weapon, having weapons under disability [...]
Dozens turn out to hear report on Avon Lake cancer
AVON LAKE – Dozens gathered Wednesday night to hear details of what they already had been told: There aren`t more cancer victims in their city than in others. Following a three-year study, the Ohio Department of Health determined there weren`t any cancer clusters in the city and that the number of cases reported by its [...]
Police blotter: Nov. 29, 2007
County sheriff Sunday, Nov. 25 3:15 a.m. – 11100 Jaquay Road, Columbia Township, Christopher Reese, 33, Old Brooklyn, Ohio, charged with assault. Monday, Nov. 26 1:06 a.m. – 14600 block Baird Road, Camden Township, Keith Wiley and Kevin Wiley, both 19, of Camden Township, charged with domestic violence. 8:45 a.m. – 49000 block Cooper Foster [...]
JVS principal to retire
OBERLIN – After 30 years, Lorain County Joint Vocational School Principal Jo Ann Kuebbeler will officially retire Friday from the school. Keubbeler Kuebbeler, who was hired as a social studies teacher for the school in 1979, served as an academic supervisor before becoming principal in 1991. She was recently honored at a breakfast for her [...]
Vermilion OK’s ODOT deal
VERMILION – Vermilion`s downtown is getting a more-than-$1-million makeover. Council approved an agreement with the Ohio Department of Transportation Wednesday night to spruce up the city`s downtown area, in part through a grant with the Ohio Department of Transportation and the Erie Regional Planning Commission. The project includes resurfacing the road, constructing new curbs, installing [...]
Robert L. Baeder
Robert L. Baeder, 86, of Elyria, died Wednesday, November 28, 2007, at New Live Hospice Center of St. Joseph, Lorain. He was born February 16, 1921 in Cleveland and had been a 60-year resident of Elyria. He was a 1939Â graduate of Lincoln High School and a 1947 graduate of Heidelberg College. Bob was a [...]
Michael Bailey
Michael Bailey, 76, of Elyria, died suddenly on Tuesday, November 27, 2007, at his home. Mr. Bailey was born February 16, 1931, in Wyoming, Ohio, and made his home in Elyria for most of his life. He was employed as a conductor on Conrail Railroad for 43 years. He was a member of the United [...]
Lucy Bo Williams Rasmussen
Lucy Bo Williams Rasmussen (nee Hale), 74, of Elyria, died Wednesday, November 21, 2007, at EMH Regional Medical Center. She was born August 24, 1933, in McAndrews, Ky., and had been an Elyria area resident since 1959. Lucy was a graduate of the University of Cincinnati School of Nursing and Williamson High School in West [...]
June Holston-Dickey
June Holston-Dickey (nee Cantley), 82, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., was called by her Heavenly Savior on Saturday, November 24, 2007, after a long illness. She was born in Rock Creek, W.Va. She had lived in Eaton Township for many years, before moving to Midwest City, Okla., and Murfreesboro. She retired from the General Motors Chevrolet Plant, [...]
Francis Tousley
Francis Tousley, 91, of Amherst, passed away Tuesday, November 27, 2007, at the New Life Hospice Residential Center in Lorain. He was born February 15, 1916, in Clarksfield. Amherst has been his home for the last 56 years. He served in the Army during World War II with the 14th Armored Division reaching the rank [...]
County: Ford plant worth $16.5M
ELYRIA – Ford`s former Lorain Assembly Plant is worth $16.5 million, the county Board of Revisions decided Wednesday. The plant`s new owners, California-based Industrial Realty Group, had asked the board to drop the value of the land from the $28 million the county had it valued at to $2.3 million – a request opposed by [...]
Sutton hopes to expand cardiac devices
COLUMBUS – An Ohio program that installed 4,544 defibrillators in schools throughout the state for use during cardiac emergencies should be expanded across the country, said U.S. Rep. Betty Sutton. The completion of the Ohio program and Sutton`s intent to file a bill to take the defibrillator program nationwide was announced Wednesday at a news [...]