Archive for June 28th, 2008
Sabathia’s pitching, Sizemore’s everything lead Tribe past Reds
CLEVELAND — Grady Sizemore giveth, and C.C. Sabathia taketh away Friday night at Progressive Field. Actually, Sizemore giveth and taketh away. Cleveland’s center fielder provided much of the offense, while mixing in some highlight-reel defense as well, and Sabathia offered up another dominating performance to help the Indians past the Reds, 6-0, in the second [...]
Tribe notes: Carmona improving, Hafner on hold
CLEVELAND — The Indians have set a new timeline for disabled starting pitcher Fausto Carmona (left hip strain), but little has changed with designated hitter Travis Hafner and his ailing right shoulder. “He’s been staying in shape,” Indians manager Eric Wedge said of Carmona, who has started just 10 games and hasn’t pitched since May [...]
Cavs draft picks visit The Q
CLEVELAND — Quicken Loans Arena was the last place J.J. Hickson expected to be Friday, but he couldn’t have been happier about it. The North Carolina State power forward said he had no idea the Cavaliers were going to take him with the 19th pick in the NBA Draft, so it was quite a shock [...]
Cavs notes: West, Gibson offered contracts
CLEVELAND — The Cavaliers have tendered qualifying contracts to re-sign Daniel “Boobie” Gibson and Delonte West. The move makes both guards restricted free agents, but the Cavaliers can match any offer sheet either player signs, general manager Danny Ferry said Friday. “We like our team and the group of guys we’ve got, so we want [...]
Track problems bring a halt to NHRA qualifying
NORWALK — The tight community of drag racing said goodbye to a good friend and fellow driver in Scott Kalitta on Thursday evening. Kalitta was taken from the sport and his family in an accident at Englishtown, N.J., last weekend. After the emotional week since Kalitta’s passing, the drivers honored him the best way they [...]
NHRA notes: Will not bending in Top Fuel class
NORWALK — Where there is a “will,” Hillary finds a way. NHRA Top Fuel driver Hillary Will entered this weekend’s Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals fifth in her division’s point standings. The Fortuna, Calif., native had 652 points before coming to Norwalk. She was just 16 points behind fourth-place holder Rod Fuller. Four weeks ago [...]
Westlake’s Mack reaches pole vault finals at Olympic Trials
Tim Mack qualified to Sunday’s finals in men’s pole vault at the U.S. Olympic Trials at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., on Friday night. Mack, the 2004 Olympic gold medalist in Athens, cleared 18 feet, 1/2 inch during Friday’s qualifying round. The 35-year-old Westlake native cleared that height in his only attempt of the preliminaries, and [...]
Softball notes: SunDogs get revenge
The SunDogs, who closely resemble Elyria High’s state-runnerup softball team, won the ASA 18-and-under state championship in Maumee last weekend. They defeated Grand Slam, 4-3, for the title, thereby extracting a measure of revenge for losses in the last two Division I state championship games. The Grand Slam roster includes pitcher Jessica Simpson of state [...]
Lightning strike kills former Elyria woman
COLLINS — Storm clouds had given way to sunshine Thursday afternoon when out of the blue, a bolt of lightning burst from the sky, knocking Ken and Debra Meltzer to the ground. Ken Meltzer survived the strike, but it killed his 51-year-old wife, who grew up in Elyria. The couple had been walking in the [...]
Floods could repeat with storms today
WELLINGTON — That wicked storm that swept through Thursday literally ripped apart Cemetery Road, leaving a 5-foot gap where solid asphalt once stood. Barricades and cones are blocking the road to through traffic after Thursday’s flash floods caused part of the road to cave. The affected portion of the road passed over a drain pipe, [...]
Paying their last respects
Funeral for slain Elyria soldier is today
Pit bull attacks Lorain boy
LORAIN — A 5-year-old Lorain boy is home and healing after a pit bull attacked him and then ran off. Daymeon Banks had been playing with his own puppy Thursday about 3:30 p.m. in the front yard of his baby sitter’s Livingston Avenue home when a passing pit bull lunged at him. His 11-year-old friend, [...]
Web site targets your neighbors — the rotten ones
COLUMBUS — Just outside his sealed bedroom window, beyond the chain-link fence that surrounds his next-door neighbor’s yard, sit the reasons David Adams says he can’t sleep: two bushy-tailed dogs that bark and howl all night. The Magnolia, Miss., resident plugged up his ears and even took his neighbor to court alleging a noise violation. [...]
Roundup: June 28, 2008
Snake in a mailbox gets hammered LORAIN — A 74-year-old Lorain man opened his mailbox Thursday, and found a slithering surprise inside. A 2-foot-long snake was curled up inside the mailbox outside the man’s East 29th Street home. The man told Lorain police he killed it with a hammer, before disposing of it in a [...]
Blotter: June 28, 2008
Elyria police Thursday, June 26 8:53 a.m. – 100 block N. West River Road, $100 stolen from cash register inside Willie’s Used Furniture. 1:40 p.m. – 800 block Purdue Ave., puppy stolen from residence. 6:50 p.m. – 900 block West Ave., Quentin D. Anderson, 27, 1100 block Barbara St., Elyria, charged with operating a vehicle [...]
Cops: Teens beat homeless man to death
CLEVELAND — A group of teenagers beat a homeless man to death as passers-by slowed to watch the attack, some of which was caught on videotape, police said. Anthony Waters, 42, suffered a lacerated spleen and broken ribs during the attack Wednesday night and died at a hospital, police said. “The pack mentality going on [...]
Community says farewell to Eric Nord
OBERLIN — For a man who helped create a $1 billion corporation, Eric T. Nord was a modest man with a hands-on approach to life, according to friends and family. There were smiles, tears and shows of appreciation at funeral services Friday for Nord, who died June 19 at 90. About 500 people attended the [...]
N.R. sewers are to dye for
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — Storm water leaking into sanitary sewers or backing up and flooding basements has long been a thorn in the city’s side or — more correctly — its infrastructure. This is why dye testing will again be done to the city’s sanitary and storm sewer systems in three neighborhoods beginning next week. The [...]
Ritter Library picks a builder
VERMILION — A Cleveland firm with local ties has been chosen to serve as construction manager for the $3.5 million, 15,000-square-foot expansion of Ritter Pubic Library slated to get under way by early spring of 2009. R.P. Carbone, the company hired by the library board of trustees, employs Vermilion brothers Tim and Mike Rini, who [...]
Off the beats
Despite auction, there’s still little interest in old YMCA building That flurry of activity last week at the defunct YMCA on Washington Avenue? No, it wasn’t sale prep. Rather, a personal property auction cleared away a lot of the contents — including the colorful jungle gym that had been out front. John Wagner with the [...]
Teaching the art of theater
Lorain Palace Youth Theatre program now in its 31st summer LORAIN — Jacob Myers is the Willy Wonka you know and love — whether that’s Gene Wilder, Johnny Depp or Roald Dahl’s original. Myers, 18, is starring as the confectionary genius in “Willy Wonka Junior,” a stage version of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” that [...]
Lorain/Sheffield/Sheffield Lake roundup
’04 Southview alum now a Naval Academy grad Navy Ensign Jared R. Shullick, son of Richard and Cheryl Shullick of Lorain, recently graduated from the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., with a bachelor of science degree with a major in ocean engineering. He is a 2004 graduate of Southview High School in Lorain. Historical wedding [...]
Death penalty fight remains unresolved
Despite Supreme Court rulings, challenges will still be considered
Terry L. Snedeker
Terry L. Snedeker, 65, of North Ridgeville, passed away Wednesday, June 25, 2008, at his residence, following a lengthy illness. He was born in Litchfield, Ill., May 28, 1943, and had been a North Ridgeville resident for 25 years. He was a 1961 graduate of Sterling High School in Sterling, Ill., and he received a [...]
Daniel Michael Borsos
Daniel Michael Borsos passed away unexpectedly in the emergency room at Community Health Partners Saturday, June 14, 2008. He was 78. He was born October 5, 1929, in Lorain and was a lifelong resident. He attended Saint Ladislaus Parochial school, Whittier Junior High school, and Lorain High school with the class of 1947. He was [...]