ELYRIA – Lorain County Transit, which has been racked by budget cuts and rising fares, has a new director. Robin Bulan started work Monday at a salary of about $50,000 a year. Bulan`s prior work experience was with private transportation carriers Ryder ATE, First Group AM, First Student and First Transit, according to County Administrator [...]

ELYRIA – Giant Eagle representatives said Thursday that the Cleveland Street store in Elyria will close in February, just 16 months after Giant Eagle acquired it and 17 others from Tops supermarket chain. SHAWN FOUCHER / CHRONICLE The Giant Eagle on Cleveland Street in Elyria is closing in February. Ongoing “financial reasons” have made it [...]

ELYRIA – In September, James Bouyer had two wives. Today, he has none. Bouyer Bouyer, 61, was granted a divorce Thursday by county Domestic Relation Judge David Berta from Annie Bouyer, whom he married in 1966 but has been separated from since 1985. But Berta warned Bouyer that even though the divorce was made retroactively [...]

Tasty event reminds of dangers of driving drunk ELYRIA – The smorgasbord of multicolored, alcohol-free drinks came in many forms – icy, gloppy, canary yellow, flamingo pink, piping hot and frigid cold – and they were slurped up by the jovial tongues of a couple hundred people who gathered Thursday for the Lorain County Community [...]

Avon Lake High School has been named one of the top high schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. The magazine lists the school as one of the top 505 of 18,790 high schools analyzed in a recent study. That puts the Shoremen in the top 3 percent in the 40 states [...]

Taking dead aim for the same crowds that loved the “Harry Potter” and “Lord of the Rings” franchises, the glossy, epic-wannabe fantasy “The Golden Compass” is a strange brew. It intrigues but ultimately falls flat, unable to jell into a cohesive, compelling movie with a strong storyline. The film uses exotic and impressive locales in [...]