Archive for May 23rd, 2008
Police will check drivers tonight in Vermilion
VERMILION —The Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Elyria Post will be looking for impaired drivers tonight at a checkpoint along Liberty Avenue, east of Sunnyside Road in Vermilion. The Highway Patrol is working in conjunction with the Vermilion Police and the county Sheriff’s Office from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. to conduct the checkpoint. Highway Patrol [...]
Alert: Newspaper delivery for today
If your newspaper was late today or remains undelivered, please do not blame your carrier. Press problems delayed printing this morning, but The Chronicle-Telegram is making every effort to make sure customers get their papers.
Indians make it a perfect road trip, as in perfectly dreadful; White Sox complete sweep as Tribe goes 0-for-6
CHICAGO — You won’t find Carlos Quentin’s name on an All-Star ballot, but he’s right where he belongs in the middle of a first-place lineup. The White Sox weren’t positive their new outfielder would even make the roster out of spring training because of a bum shoulder, yet the Arizona castoff is turning his surprise [...]
Division III district softball: Wellington’s Rennie expects rise and shines, hits HR to give Dukes 1-0 win over Columbia
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — Melissa Rennie expected a riseball, got it and with one swing booked a trip to Massillon next week for the Wellington softball team. The home run that resulted held up behind the pitching of Melanie Conklin, and the Lady Dukes nipped Columbia, 1-0, on Thursday in a Division III district final. The [...]
Division I district baseball: Kolcun throws four-hitter as Amherst downs Berea
STRONGSVILLE — Jake Kolcun said he was nervous at the start and at the finish. You never would’ve known it by his performance. Kolcun blanked Berea 5-0 Thursday to lift Amherst to its first district championship since 1993. The Comets (20-9) will meet St. Ignatius in the Division I Shelby regional Thursday at 5 p.m. [...]
Division II district baseball: Vermilion fights back against Revere, only to come up just short
LORAIN — Vermilion’s magical run came to an end Thursday, but not without one final act from the Sailors. Down for much of its Division II district semifinal game, Vermilion rallied late before falling 5-4 to Revere at Southview High School. The Sailors trailed by three before coming back to tie it in the sixth [...]
Division I district baseball: Olmsted Falls leaves door open; St. Ignatius barges right through
LAKEWOOD — It wasn’t the game’s defining play. No doubt it didn’t have a huge bearing on who would win and who wouldn’t. But it was a play that was indicative of what an underdog can never afford when playing the second-ranked Division I team in Ohio. “We didn’t turn the double play,” Olmsted Falls [...]
High school baseball notes: Lutheran West’s Chislow is a player of many talents
A few observations as the baseball season winds down … Justin Chislow won his sixth game Wednesday when Lutheran West beat Brooklyn 11-5. That’s the most any pitcher in the C-T coverage area has won this season. And this kid is only a sophomore. Chislow, a Litchfield resident, isn’t overpowering. His best pitches, according to [...]
Browns finally fill vacant team president position
Mike Keenan was named team president of the Cleveland Browns on Thursday, formally filling a position left vacant when John Collins resigned two years ago. Keenan has handled the club’s off-the-field affairs as its vice president of business operations since 2005. A 10-year member of the NFL’s Management Council before joining the Browns, Keenan will [...]
District track: Bay girls leading Division II after first day
GRAFTON — The Bay girls took the early lead in the Division II district track and field meet at Midview High School after Thursday’s action. Thanks to Dana Rohlke winning the high jump and their 3,200-meter relay team also winning, the Rocket girls have 30 points and the lead in the team standings. Avon (181/2) [...]
Avon city prosecutor fired over plea deal
AVON — City Prosecutor Anthony Manning was fired earlier this month and is now the subject of a criminal investigation. Police and prosecutors are looking into a potentially illegal plea deal Manning gave an FBI computer technician caught shoplifting from Costco in Avon. The deal allowed the shoplifter to plead guilty to a misdemeanor in [...]
Plas pleads not guilty to charges
Attack victim in critical condition after heart surgery
Elyrian heads Coast Guard`s Ninth District
CLEVELAND — With Lake Erie and the recently commissioned United States Coast Guard Mackinaw as the backdrop, Rear Adm. Peter V. Neffenger assumed command Thursday of the Ninth Coast Guard District in a change-of-command ceremony. Neffenger, 52, grew up in Carlisle Township on Butternut Ridge Road, but considers himself an Elyria native. While he grew [...]
Ridgeville grad commands Coast Guard cutter
CLEVELAND — Growing up in the military, Scott J. Smith, who graduated from North Ridgeville High School and has always considered the city home, had two choices — he could shun the military or embrace it. He chose to embrace it — wholeheartedly. Smith, 41, recently took command of the Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw in [...]
State: Lorain needs 1 high school
LORAIN — One Lorain high school may be better than two, according to the Ohio School Facilities Commission. The Commission proposed closing the doors of both Admiral King and Southview high schools in order to build a single high school for the Lorain School district’s more than 2,500 high school students. “(The proposal) is a [...]
Firefighter gets life for shootings
Cleveland fireman killed 3 neighbors over fireworks CLEVELAND — A firefighter was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without chance of parole for killing three people over late-night Fourth of July fireworks set off in his usually quiet neighborhood. In sentencing Terrance Hough Jr., 36, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold followed [...]
Teen`s trailer of dreams
Short film wins him $40,000 scholarship to art institute Hollywood is awash with the broken dreams of filmmakers who gave it their all to get noticed by studios willing to bankroll their blockbuster wannabes. And then, along comes soft-spoken, bespectacled John Beursken, who made a five-minute trailer for a movie that doesn’t exist, but [...]
New bus stop gives dentist a real pain
ELYRIA — A downtown dentist is upset about Greyhound bus customers hanging around his parking lot, and he wants the county to do something about it. Scott McDonald, one of three doctors with offices in the Elyria Dental Arts building on the corner of East Avenue and Third Street, wrote a letter May 13 to [...]
County`s ‘pay as you throw` makes changes on the go
ELYRIA — Allied Waste has made a few changes to its “pay as you throw” program. The company, slowly distributing large blue trash carts throughout the county, has begun to allow older and disabled residents who put out only two bags of trash per week to forego the carts. Dave Kidder, Allied’s area marketing manager, [...]
Spokeswoman: Avon Lake plant won’t be affected by Ford cuts
DETROIT — Fast-rising gas prices claimed their latest victim Thursday: Ford Motor Co. While company officials confirmed that the Avon Lake plant won’t suffer any cuts, the auto giant said it has abandoned its goal of becoming profitable by 2009. Ford spokeswoman Anne Marie Gattari told The Chronicle that while the auto giant will cut [...]
LaGrange/Grafton blotter: May 23, 2008
LaGrange police Sunday, May 18 2:50 p.m. – Lorain County Sheriff’s Office, Richard Clifford II, 38, of Elyria, served with a warrant. Monday, May 19 3 p.m. – Keystone High School, police assist with vehicle lock-out. Grafton police Monday, May 12 1:55 p.m. – 900 block Center St., disturbance involving mother and son; son taken [...]
Midview heroes
Hall of Honor spotlights accomplished alumni, staff EATON TWP. — Whether it is flying a combat jet or drawing a cartoon that makes people smile or weep when a character dies of breast cancer, the Midview High School “Make a Difference” Hall of Honor recipients are an inspirational group. This week, Tom Batiuk, Maureen Ross [...]
John T. Farais Sr.
John T. Farais Sr., 81, of Avon, died Saturday, May 17, 2008, at St. John West Shore Hospital in Westlake. He was born December 10, 1926, in Blaine, and had lived in the Lorain County area most of his life. John served as a Private First Class in the Marine Corps from February 1945 to [...]
James Ross Branim Sr.
James Ross Branim Sr., 73, of Elyria, died Thursday, May 22, 2008, at his residence, following a long illness. He was born March 7, 1935, in Robbins, Tenn., moving to this area in 1961. He served in the Air Force from 1957 to 1960 as an air policeman. James was employed at National Gypsum Plant, [...]
Ida L. Munday
Ida L. Munday, 67, formerly of Carey, Ohio, died Wednesday, May 21, 2008, in Fairhaven North, Upper Sandusky. Funeral arrangements were made by Bringman Clark Funeral Home, 226 E. Wyandot Ave., Upper Sandusky, OH 43351.