Archive for January 20th, 2008
Steve Sucre
Steve Sucre, 88, of Avon, died Saturday, January 19, 2008 at Good Samaritan Nursing Home after a brief illness. Mr. Sucre was born March 19, 1919 in Palmer, Pennsylvania, son of the late Frank and Elizabeth (nee Hochreider) Sucre. Steve was a US Army Veteran of WWII. He leaves one sister, Betty Petras; one nephew, [...]
Roberta C. Rapose
Roberta C. Rapose (nee Gionet), passed away Friday, January 18, 2008 peacefully, after a lengthy illness at her home in Amherst, surrounded by her family. Roberta was born in Shirley, Massachusetts, where she lived until relocating to Amherst in 1978. After graduating from Ayer High School, she was employed by the George Frost Co. as [...]
Girls basketball: Keystone clinches share of PAC title
LAGRANGE — You wouldn’t have believed it watching Keystone’s girls in the first half Saturday night. But the Wildcats pitched a shutout in the third quarter, allowed just one field goal the second half and clinched a share of the Patriot Athletic Conference basketball crown. Keystone (12-4, 9-2 PAC) turned in a convincing 55-37 victory [...]
Naomi May Pycraft
Naomi May Pycraft, 87, died January 18, 2008 at Welcome Nursing Home after a long illness. She was born May 9, 1920 in Lorain. She lived in the Pittsfield Township area for 61 years. Naomi worked as an elementary school teacher in Lorain schools and then Lorain County and Kipton for 38 years before retiring [...]
Marjorie E. Kazmierczak
Marjorie E. Kazmierczak, 93, of West Salem, died Friday, January 18, 2008 at the Hospice at the Inn in Medina. She was born June 3, 1914 in Pleasant Home, the daughter of William and Odella (Keefer) McVicker. Marjorie was a homemaker all her life and also a hairdresser in Spencer and Grafton. She was a [...]
Lavinia L. Hill
Lavinia L. Hill (nee Bell), 72, of New Philadelphia, died Saturday, January 19, 2008 at Center Ridge Health Campus, North Ridgeville, following a long illness. Mrs. Hill was born on March 17, 1935 in Blairsville, Pennsylvania. She raised her family in Granger Twp., Medina and had resided in New Philadelphia with her daughter for the [...]
Men’s college basketball: No. 6 Vols get measure of revenge against Buckeyes
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee thought about last season. Then the Volunteers put it behind them and gained some small revenge on Ohio State. The sixth-ranked Vols beat the Buckeyes 74-69 on Saturday, 10 months after the NCAA tournament regional semifinal in San Antonio which Ohio State won 85-84. “You try to get it out of [...]
James P. Stump
James P. Stump, 79, of Strongsville and formerly of Amherst, passed away Saturday, January 19, 2008 in Southwest General Hospital in Middleburg Hts. after a brief illness. He was born July 4, 1928 in Ingleside, West Virginia and had lived in Lorain County for over 30 years. He attended Buckeye Christian Assembly in Medina and [...]
Carol J. Flood
Carol J. Flood (nee Joy), 79, of Elyria, passed away Thursday evening, January 17, 2008 at Wesleyan Village in Elyria following a lengthy illness. She was born in Elyria on December 27, 1929. She graduated from Elyria High School, Class of 1937 and remained a lifelong resident. Carol was a homemaker who enjoyed music and [...]
Dan Coughlin: Monsters defenseman relishes role as fighter
Mitch Love, a 23-year-old defenseman with the Lake Erie Monsters hockey team, knows how to plunk the heartstrings of a hockey fan’s heart. “It never hurts to drop the gloves at the ‘Q’ and get the fans riled up a little bit,” says the native Canadian with the bent nose. The Monsters have been in [...]
McCain, Romney, Clinton win Saturday contests
Sen. John McCain won a hard-fought South Carolina primary Saturday night, avenging a bitter personal defeat in a bastion of conservatism and gaining ground in an unpredictable race for the Republican presidential nomination. Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama split the spoils in Nevada caucuses marred by late charges of dirty politics. “We’ve got [...]
More Lorain students dress for success
LORAIN — Southview High School junior Anthony Baxter is going to find it extra difficult to roll out of bed Wednesday morning. The 16-year-old will have to don a polo shirt and slacks before he heads to Southview, which will join Admiral King High and Lowell Elementary in enforcing a mandatory uniform policy starting mid-week. [...]
AFC championship: Turner a step away from Super Bowl
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — He’s not the Norv Turner of the 1990s. Definitely not the Norv of those two dreadful years in Oakland. Finally, Norval Eugene Turner has gone from a guy who couldn’t get his teams into the playoffs to being one step from the Super Bowl. Granted, it’s going to be one gnarly, enormous [...]
Fire burns family out of apartment
LORAIN — Four families were evacuated from an apartment after a blaze broke out early Saturday in a bedroom shared by two young children. Sheakym Chaney’s smoke alarm woke her just before 9 a.m., and she rushed to get her three children out of the home on the 1600 block of East 30th Street, Lorain [...]
Investigators have many unanswered questions in Marine death
RALEIGH, N.C. — As federal agents conduct an international manhunt for a Marine wanted for the bloody slaying of a pregnant colleague from Ohio, a team of detectives in North Carolina is on a search of a different kind. There are so many questions about the death of 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach that demand [...]
Rep. Duncan Hunter drops out of race
SAN DIEGO — Rep. Duncan Hunter is dropping out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination after a poor showing in the Nevada caucus, his campaign said Saturday. “We thought we’d do much better in Nevada, but the numbers weren’t there,” campaign spokesman Bob Bevill said. “We were not able to get any traction.”
NFC championship: Do Packers have edge in the snow?
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Baby, it’s cold outside. So cold, one team has practiced with footballs straight out of the freezer. But not so frigid that many players say they will go sleeveless. As for the plummeting temperatures being an advantage for the Green Bay Packers in today’s NFC championship game against the New York [...]
Roundup: Jan. 20
Pizza offer wards off robber in Elyria ELYRIA — When a robber stuck a gun in an Amherst man’s face and demanded money late Friday, his victim offered him pizza instead. Ronald Peters, 51, told police he was getting into his car about 11:15 p.m. in a parking lot behind the Settle Inn Bar, 703 [...]
Blotter: Jan. 20
Elyria police Thursday, Jan. 17 8:30 p.m. – Paul’s Beverage Warehouse, Lake Avenue, the owner said an employee took a forged $100 bill. Friday, Jan. 18 5:30 a.m. – Smink Electric, Winckles Street, two suspects wearing hooded sweatshirts broke into a truck and stole an electric drill and roll of wire. 9:56 a.m. – Country [...]
Girls basketball: Elyria overcomes mistakes to beat Normandy
ELYRIA — Mike Walsh groused a bit, but in the end, Elyria’s coach was satisfied. Elyria survived some critical turnovers and missed free throws to defeat Normandy for its sixth straight win, 42-31, in a Northeast Ohio Conference cross-over game. Elyria improved its record to 13-2 overall. Normandy, which beat Elyria twice last year, fell [...]
Pilot program helps improve reading skills
When Elyria Schools Superintendent Paul Ridga challenged teachers at the beginning of the school year to stretch even further in hopes of reaching just one more child, he had no idea they would jump on the fast track. But that’s exactly what they have done, working to integrate several intervention techniques into the curriculum. The [...]
Boys basketball: Ridgeville rocks River again
ROCKY RIVER — North Ridgeville continued its roll through the West Shore Conference with a 64-60 win over the Rocky River Pirates Saturday night. The win was the second over the Pirates, whom they beat, 72-62, in double overtime in early December. The win opens up a two-game lead in the conference over their geographical [...]
Boys basketball: Midview turns back Firelands
HENRIETTA TWP. — There’s an old saying about if you fall off a horse, you get up, dust yourself off and get back in the saddle. Midview coach Troy DiFranco believes the same concept can easily be applied to basketball. Midview, which lost a hard-fought battle to North Ridgeville on Friday night, went right back [...]
Elyria notebook: Jan. 20
Reduce, reuse, and get reward For several years, schools and other organizations throughout the city have raised money by sponsoring an Abitibi-Consolidated paper collection bin, all with a unified goal of diverting recyclable material from landfills. In 2007, those 39 locations did an impressive job —collecting more than 877 tons of office paper, newspaper, magazines [...]
Drowned family had fallen on hard times
HAMILTON — Neighbors and friends of a family of five whose drowned bodies were found in a car submerged in a creek described them as friendly people who were down on their luck. The car was found Thursday in Eagle Creek near a sharp curve on a rural road near Sparta, Ky., about 30 miles [...]