Archive for March 20th, 2008
More snow is on the way today …
ELYRIA — If you were basking in the sun Thursday and thinking about planting grass or cleaning the flower beds this weekend, well … think again. The National Weather Service is calling for yet another blast of winter to hit Lorain County beginning today with predictions that as much as 5 inches of snow will [...]
Students’ robot creations do battle at CSU
CLEVELAND — With five minutes before his team’s first practice round, Tyler Tucker started to get nervous. “This is it,” the Admiral King senior said. “Here we go.’’ After 120 hours of welding, soldering and wiring, it all came down to this. DAVID RICHARD / CHRONICLE Greg Bratulic, left, and Tyler Tucker watch as the [...]
Court worker added to handle foreclosures
ELYRIA — Foreclosures are about to get easier in Lorain County, at least for the legal system. The county’s judges have hired a magistrate to handle the bulk of the foreclosure lawsuits that have inundated the courts with paperwork recently — a record 2,243 foreclosures were filed in the county last year. Michelle Pena, a [...]
Suspect sought in store assault
LORAIN — The woman said she did what any mother would if they ran across a small child, alone and crying, in the middle of a store.She tried to comfort him. COURTESY LORAIN POLICE This image from security video shows a suspect in an assault at A.J. Wright in Lorain earlier this month. WANT TO [...]
Norma Maxine Georgi
Norma Maxine Georgi (nee Nevil), 81, of Avon and formerly of Fort Wayne, Indiana, passed away Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at the Avon Oaks Nursing Home in Avon. She was born March 7, 1927 in Geneva, Indiana and moved to Avon two and half years ago from Ft. Wayne. During World War II, she worked [...]
A little defense does the job for Cavaliers, who get big win over Pistons
CLEVELAND — Those weren’t the Denver Nuggets the Detroit Pistons were facing Wednesday night at Quicken Loans Arena. The Cavaliers laid down a little bit of defense — no, make that a lot of defense — en route to an 89-73 victory over their Central Division rivals, who had torched the Nuggets for 136 points [...]
Brian Dulik: King James’ ascension to top of Cavaliers scoring list is destiny
Cavaliers forward LeBron James is a student of the game, a legitimate pop culture icon and a 23-year-old with an incredible knack for doing the right thing. This week, however, all of those positive attributes must take a back seat to his greatest skill: putting the ball in the basket. James scored a game-high 30 [...]
Judith Ann Ebbitt-Glover
Judith Ann Ebbitt-Glover, 66. of North Olmsted, passed away Wednesday, March 19, 2008 in her home after a one year illness. She was born Saturday, April 5, 1941 in Steubenville, moving to Lorain in 1978 until 1995, then moving to North Olmsted. She was a member of Westlake United Methodist Church, where she taught Sunday [...]
Big Ben Wallace shows his old team he can still get it done on the defensive end
CLEVELAND — Ben Wallace showed the team he won an NBA championship with why they were so good on defense during the six seasons he was there. The power forward led Cleveland’s dominating defensive effort Wednesday night as the Cavaliers ran away with a surprising 89-73 victory over the Detroit Pistons. Wallace, a four-time NBA [...]
Oh, yes, Terrelle Pryor picks OSU: Top quarterback recruit says he’s ready to learn, wait his turn
COLUMBUS — Terrelle Pryor got the name of his new school wrong — he called it the University of Ohio State — but that was about the only thing that didn’t go right on Wednesday for him or the Buckeyes. Dubbed the nation’s top quarterback recruit, Pryor belatedly announced that he would join an Ohio [...]
College basketball: Elyria resident Steve Bankson retires after 28 years, 420 wins as Baldwin-Wallace coach
BEREA — Steve Bankson borrowed from a 19th-century Scottish literary giant to sum up his nearly three decades at Baldwin-Wallace College. “Robert Louis Stevenson said, ‘If a man loves his work, without regard to recompense or fame, the gods have called him,’” Bankson said. “That’s what happened here.” Bankson stepped down as head coach of [...]
Cleveland Indians DH Travis Hafner trying to forget last season’s struggles
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — Rather than agonize over what went wrong last year, Travis Hafner is turning the page. His worst performance at the plate since becoming a full-time starter in the big leagues is a chapter he’d rather not re-examine. “I really haven’t looked back on last year at all,” said Hafner, who posted [...]
Eugene T. Stover
Eugene T. Stover, 79, of North Ridgeville, passed away unexpectedly Tuesday, March 18, 2008 in the emergency room at EMH Regional Health Center in Elyria. Mr. Stover was born in Eccles, West Virginia and had been a resident of North Ridgeville since 1963. He was a 1947 graduate of Trap Hill High School in Eccles, [...]
Billy J. Miller
Billy J. "Joe" Miller, 63, of Wooster, and formerly of Lorain, died Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at his residence. Joe was born in Baltimore, Maryland on February, 3, 1945. He went on to attend Glenville State College in Glenville, West Virginia. He was a veteran of the United States Air Force and served during the [...]
Barry L. Mercer
Barry L. Mercer, 24, of Parma, died Sunday, March 16, 2008 at Lakewood Hospital in Lakewood. Barry was born November 24, 1983 in Cleveland, and made his home in Garfield Heights and Parma most of his life. He was a bartender and a musician for various taverns for several years. He loved playing the guitar [...]
Ivan Eugene Truax
Ivan Eugene Truax, 94, of LaGrange, and formerly of Mt. Gilead, was called home to be with his Lord on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at New Life Hospice Residential Center in Lorain. He was born November 12, 1913 in Morrow County, where he was raised and made his home for 85 years. He had resided [...]
Girls soccer: Avon’s Irwin steps down after eight years as coach; Elyria Catholic makes hire
Brian Irwin, who turned Avon High’s girls soccer program into a perennial threat, has resigned after eight seasons. Irwin said Wednesday night he hopes to be an assistant coach at the college level next season. And Elyria Catholic has filled its vacant girls soccer coaching position. Tom Wolfe of Brunswick, a coach, official and administrator [...]
James Pettit
James Pettit, 75, of North Ridgeville, died Wednesday, March 19, 2008. Arrangements will be announced by the David Bogner Family Funeral Home, North Ridgeville.
Leonard P. Reichlin
Leonard P. Reichlin, 90, of Elyria, died Wednesday, March 19, 2008, at his home, following a short illness. Len was born February 9, 1918 in Lorain, and came to Elyria in 1948. He was a graduate of St. Joseph College in Rensellar, Indiana and the Cleveland College of Mortuary Science. He was the founder of [...]
Loretta M. Johnson
Loretta M. Johnson, (nee Roth), 69, of Vermilion, passed away Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at Lake Pointe Health Center in Lorain. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Wyers Funeral Chapel.