Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for March 5th, 2008
Uriah J. Fridley
Uriah J. Fridley, 28, of Lorain, unexpectedly passed away Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at Lorain Community Hospital. He was born June 4, 1979 in Parma, raised in Sheffield Lake and had resided in Lorain for the past eight years.
He graduated from Brookside High School and attended Lorain County JVS in 1998. He enjoyed Heroscape and [...]
Boil that water!
The rupture of a main water line is proving disruptive to residents of Columbia Township and Olmsted Falls.
The Rural Lorain County Water Authority on Wednesday night told its customers in those areas to boil their water for three minutes before drinking or cooking with [...]
Elyria-St. Edward final score
The St. Edward Eagles defeated the Elyria Pioneers 70-65 in their regional semifinal matchup at Cleveland State’s Wolstein Center on Wednesday night.
B-BAll UPDATE: Tickets on sale for Sweet 16 game this afternoon
Want to catch the Sweet 16 action tonight for Elyria High School’s boys basketball Division I game?
Tickets for tonight’s 6:15 p.m. game against St. Edward High School will be go on sale at 4:45 p.m. at the doors of the Wolstein Center at Cleveland State University.
Tickets are $8, said Elyria Schools spokeswoman Amy Kren.
This is the first [...]
Entire 03/05/08 newspaper in PDF format
Due to the weather conditions, some newspapers were not able to be delivered on a timely basis, so we have put the entire newspaper online in PDF format.
Click on a link below to view that page in Adobe PDF format.
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Clinton wins in Ohio
Hillary Rodham Clinton sidestepped political disaster Tuesday night, winning the Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island primaries.
In Lorain County, Clinton took 36,138 votes, or 57.4 percent of the total, to take away the county from her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., according to unofficial elections [...]
Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor ice stopped ballot-counters
Nobody cast a more prominent vote Tuesday than Mother Nature.
The ice storm that clobbered Northeast Ohio on Tuesday left voters and poll workers battling the elements as they turned out to cast their ballots in the historic election that had put Ohio in the national spotlight in the battle between senators Hillary Clinton and [...]
Elyria income tax renewal clobbered
ELYRIA — Voters stunned city officials Tuesday by overwhelmingly rejecting a longstanding income tax levy that generates $6 million a year, more than one-fifth of the city’s general fund budget.
Unofficial results showed that 9,278 voters, or 69 percent, opposed renewal of the 0.5 percent income tax and 4,160 voters, or 31 percent, favored it. If [...]
Plant comment period extended
LORAIN — The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has extended the public comment period until March 14 for the limestone crushing plant proposed for the Riverbend Commerce Park.
A number of citizens and public officials braved freezing rain for a meeting Tuesday night to hear facts and figures about [...]
Icy weather is a mess
County Emergency Management Agency Director Tom Kelley didn’t mince words when describing the roads Tuesday night.
“It’s a mess,” he said, adding the word terrible to hammer home the point.
The county activated its emergency operations center around 8 p.m. Tuesday to coordinate the response to the heavy sleet that poured over the county throughout the late [...]