Archive for April 26th, 2008
Drought finally ends: Indians get first regular-season win over Yankees since 2006
CLEVELAND — The Indians had six tries and still couldn’t beat the Yankees during the 2007 regular season. They needed only one this year. Snapping an eight-game regular-season winless streak against New York that dated back to 2006, the Indians finally hung a pre-October beating on the Bronx Bombers with a 6-4 victory Friday night [...]
Indians notes: Cliff Lee staying cool despite his torrid start
CLEVELAND — Judging from his first four starts of the season, Cliff Lee is back and better than ever. Lee, who endured the worst of his four seasons in the majors last year, has returned to the form he displayed as a staple of the Indians’ rotation from 2004-06. The statistics say he’s taken it [...]
On the road, but not on the ropes: Still, Cavaliers must find a way to win away from home
WASHINGTON, D.C. — How could the Cavaliers win Game 2 by 30 points and lose Game 3 by 36 to set an NBA record for the biggest two-game point swing in league playoff history? The simplest — and perhaps most accurate — explanation is that one game was at home and the other was on [...]
Cavs notes: Trash talking doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon
WASHINGTON — Teenage recording artist Soulja Boy won’t be at the Verizon Center for Game 4 Sunday afternoon, but Washington Wizards guard DeShawn Stevenson seems determined not to let his “overrated” — and by this time over-reported and over-hyped — feud with LeBron James come to an end. Asked his response Friday to James’ claim [...]
Browns NFL Draft 2008: History proves there’s plenty of talent to be found in later rounds
The buzz may be missing from the Browns’ draft, but it’s far from meaningless. The Browns aren’t a finished product, and this weekend’s draft is the best way for them to improve before training camp. It will be more difficult without a pick until the fourth round (No. 122 overall), but it’s not impossible. Twenty-one [...]
High school softball: Sullivan’s big day helps Keystone pick up two wins in own tournament
LAGRANGE — Strongsville’s softball team left the annual Prebis Memorial Classic on Friday afternoon thinking it had defeated Canfield, 2-1. The Mustangs will learn differently when they return to Community Park this afternoon for their final two games of the four-game, 10-team invitational tournament. But that’s another story for a later time. Of more current [...]
Prep softball notebook: Good mix of veterans, youngsters has Elyria Catholic rolling
Folks wondering where Elyria Catholic came from should be just as interested in where the Panthers are going. It could be deep into the postseason. Despite sleepwalking through a North Coast League loss to St. Peter Chanel on Thursday, EC is off to its best start in years. Even with the 2-1 loss to Chanel, [...]
Prep baseball notebook: Amherst doesn’t have pie-in-the-sky attitude about new tradition
The Amherst baseball team have ripped a page from the 2007 Cleveland Indians’ playbook. Or maybe both the Comets and the Indians ripped a page from the Three Stooges’ playbook. In any event, the Comets have taken up the practice of shoving pies in the faces of teammates being interviewed on television. The interviews are [...]
Off the beat: Standing in the presence of greatness
Chance meetings are all about being in the right place at the right time.That’s what happened to Steve Kerchmar, the 2008 drum major for Elyria High School, on April 19 at the Scarlet and Gray game at The Ohio State University Stadium. Kerchmar was in Columbus attending a drum major camp being presented by the [...]
Latinos talk housing, Puerto Rico statehood in conference
ELYRIA — More than 40 million Latinos live in the United States, including more than 260,000 in Ohio. But nobody’s paying much attention to the issues that affect them, said Joel Arredondo of the Coalition for Hispanic/Latino Issues and Progress. That’s why his organization is stepping up this weekend to talk about how Latinos can [...]
Brookside athletes want to get team on a better track
Lee Ann Mullen The Chronicle-Telegram Brookside High School’s track and field program has almost everything it needs to be successful — a group of talented and energized athletes and a hard-working coach who keeps the athletes strong and motivated. What it doesn’t have, however, is a track that is suitable to host competitions. Made of [...]
Lorain/Sheffield & Sheffield Lake Notebook: April 26, 2008
Pipe Yard event Lorain will host its inaugural Andrew “Rube” Foster Night beginning at 6:45 p.m. Sunday at the Pipe Yard. The event is a tribute to Rube Foster, who founded the Negro National League in 1920. At 6:45 p.m., Lorain resident Ernie Nimmons and several other former Negro League players will be honored. During [...]
Girls sell off their stuff for animals in need
ELYRIA TWP. — Who needs toys when there are dogs and cats out there in need of good homes? Not two local girls. Jordyn and Emily Elliott, ages 7 and 6, have more than what they need. So, today the girls — with the help of mom, Toni Yarosh — are hosting a yard sale [...]
County angling to become renewable energy capital
A new geothermal energy company plans to locate its national headquarters in Lorain. An Ann Arbor, Mich.-based company recently purchased Avon Bearings Corp., pledging to push the local manufacturer into the forefront of the growing wind energy market. And two companies that make parts for wind turbines have scouted manufacturing sites in Lorain County. Alone, [...]
No bull: Matus Winery gives 1850 barn a second life
CAMDEN TWP. — A building that started out as a bull barn in 1850 rolled down Gore Orphanage Road on Friday to the Matus Winery, where it will be renovated into a wine-tasting room. “It reminded me of an old barn raising,” said winery owner Bob Matus. “Everyone pitched in and got it done.” Matus [...]
Judge overturns convicted killer’s death sentence
ELYRIA — Convicted killer Raymond Smith is mentally retarded and cannot be executed, county Common Pleas Judge Christopher Rothgery ruled Friday. Rothgery instead ruled that Smith, 68, will serve a life prison sentence in the 1994 murder of police informant Ronald Lally. Smith “I’m happy that the court ruled on what we already know — [...]
Marianne Glover
Marianne Glover (nee Maehr) passed away Monday, April 21, 2008, in Summerville, S.C. She enjoyed shopping with her friends and visiting with her grandchildren. She was the daughter of Victor and Kathryn (Haserodt) Maehr; wife of the late Robert L. Glover Sr., (deceased June 12, 2004); She leaves a son, Robert L. Glover II, and [...]
Ruben Campbell Jr.
Ruben Campbell Jr., 75, of Lorain, passed away Wednesday, April 23, 2008, at New Life Hospice Center in Lorain, following a lengthy illness. He was born June 27, 1932, in Leaksville, N.C., and had lived in the Lorain area since 1955. He was a member of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Lorain. Ruben worked at [...]
Sheffield plans to build new fire station
SHEFFIELD TWP. — An old fire station at 3977 Broadway built during the Great Depression could be replaced soon. The township is working on plans to build a new station on almost an acre of land at 4600 Broadway near the football field at Clearview High School. The station is expected to cost $500,000 and [...]
Josephine Repko
Josephine Repko, 84, of Lorain, died Thursday, April 24, 2008, in the emergency room at Community Health Partners in Lorain, following a sudden illness. She was born March 2, 1924, in Lorain and has been a lifelong resident. She was a member of Local 880 Retail Workers, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church [...]
Christine M. Votava
Christine M. Votava, 28, died Tuesday, April 22, 2008. She was a lifelong resident of Avon. She was attending Sanford Brown College and enjoyed being with her family and friends. She was the dearest mother of Christopher Lukachko of Texas; loving daughter of Mary (nee O’Connell) and Jeff Gschwind and the late Richard Votava; loving [...]
Marian Ennemoser
Marian Ennemoser, 74, passed away Wednesday, April 23, 2008. She was the beloved wife of the late Edward; loving mother of Michael (Diane) and Todd (Kimberly); sister of Louise Krutsch and the late Andrew and Paul Sr. Jakobsky; dear grandmother of Nathan, Julia and Katie. Friends may call 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, April 27, [...]
Eva Louise Sedor
Eva Louise (nee Brown) Sedor, 101, former resident of Wellington, passed away, November 25, 2007, in Loveland, Colo. Eva’s cremates will be interred at a graveside service 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 30, 2008, at the Greenlawn Cemetery, Wellington. Bauer Funeral Home, 2089 Columbia Road, Valley City, is handling local arrangements.
Diving into Erie’s sunken past
The people behind a new Ohio-based Web site detailing Lake Erie’s sunken ships and maritime tragedies hope it raises the interest of divers and researchers to spend time and money in the Buckeye state. Financed by grants from the Ohio Lake Erie Commission and Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ Office of Coastal Management, the interactive [...]
Man serving life sentence wants DNA test
ELYRIA — An Elyria man serving a life sentence for the May 1999 murder of Angela Galloway is asking a county judge to allow him to have his DNA tested in the hopes it will clear him. But county Prosecutor Dennis Will, who worked the case while still an Elyria police officer, said there’s no [...]