Archive for October 17th, 2008
Robert Lee Garner
Robert Lee "Bob" Garner, 81, of Elyria, passed away Monday, October 6, 2008 at Lorain Community Health Partners Hospital following a long illness. He was born in Tecumseh, Alabama coming to the Wellington, Oberlin and Elyria areas 48 years ago. He was employed as a laborer for Shopping Center Maintenance Company of Elyria, retiring after [...]
Ohio Supreme Court rejects GOP bid in voting dispute
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is siding with Ohio’s top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations. The justices on Friday overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio’s top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility. Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a [...]
Girls Division II sectional soccer: Repas rally leads Avon past EC
AVON — The match was barely 30 minutes old when Avon star Megan Repas achieved a hat trick. It happened at 7:36 p.m., and that’s significant. Her third goal of the game was the 82nd of Repas’ high school career and broke the school record set by Danni Irwin. Repas wasn’t finished. She added another [...]
High school football Week 9: Avon Lake still grounding it out
Don’t bother reading the name across the shoulders or trying to catch a glimpse of the number on the jersey. If you’re looking in Avon Lake’s backfield, you’re looking at one of the best football players in Lorain County. That’s the way it has been for years, as the Shoremen have easily been the class [...]
Spurs 91, Cavaliers 70: Cavs still winless in preseason
CLEVELAND — LeBron James was presented the key to the city by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson during a halftime ceremony, but the Cavaliers still haven’t unlocked the mystery of winning an exhibition game. Cleveland fell to 0-4 in the preseason Thursday night, losing 91-70 to the San Antonio Spurs at Quicken Loans Arena, but no [...]
Browns: RB Lewis feels like he’s been overlooked
BEREA — Jamal Lewis held the NFL’s single-game rushing record for four years after a brilliant 295-yard performance. He was the league’s offensive player of the year in 2003. He passed Earl Campbell on Monday night to move into 25th on the all-time rushing list with 9,428 yards. Yet Lewis considers himself the Rodney Dangerfield [...]
Browns notes: Winslow back at team headquarters
BEREA — Tight end Kellen Winslow was back at Browns headquarters Thursday but didn’t practice. He wasn’t on the practice field in the half-hour open to reporters or in the locker room during media availability. Coach Romeo Crennel said there was a chance he could practice today in preparation for the Redskins game Sunday. Crennel [...]
ALCS: Boston rallies to stave off elimination
BOSTON — Down seven runs and running out of time, the Boston Red Sox weren’t quite ready to go away. The defending World Series champions pulled off the biggest postseason comeback since 1929, beating the Rays 8-7 Thursday night on J.D. Drew’s two-out single in the ninth to stave off elimination in the best-of-seven AL [...]
Ohio State: Offensive line taking heat for offensive woes
COLUMBUS — In coffee shops, on city buses, at the kitchen table and around the water cooler, Ohio State fans are becoming increasingly familiar with the guys on the offensive line. This is not a good thing. What is being said about the usually anonymous guys on the front wall isn’t fit for young ears. [...]
Boys Division III sectional soccer: Oberlin blanks Open Door to advance
OBERLIN — If you miss 100 percent of the shots you take, at the end of a game, your team usually ends up on the wrong end of the scoreboard. That was the quandary Open Door (4-10-2) faced against Oberlin (8-6-5) in the Division III sectional final Thursday night. The Patriots did not register a [...]
Voting dispute may go before U.S. Supreme Court
COLUMBUS — The U.S. Supreme Court was deciding Thursday whether to intervene in an Ohio elections dispute that has cast doubt on the ability of 200,000 newly registered voters to cast ballots in the November election. Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner turned to the high court, hoping it will overturn a lower court ruling she [...]
Libertarian candidate Bob Barr appears in Oberlin
OBERLIN — Bob Barr isn’t expecting to win, but that’s not stopping him from running for president. The former congressman from Georgia, who gained notoriety as one of the leaders in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, lectured to a crowd Thursday night at Oberlin College and asked for votes. Calling himself “Bob the Builder,” [...]
Elyria business owner named in ODOT probe
COLUMBUS — A local businessman was named Thursday in a state investigation into a decade-long scheme involving eight Ohio highway department workers accused of rigging bids, squandering millions of taxpayer dollars and accepting fishing trips, drinks and lapdances in exchange for steering contracts. According to the report issued by Ohio Inspector General Tom Charles, Mark [...]
Social Security adjustment will be $63 per month
WASHINGTON — Social Security checks are going up $63 a month for the typical retiree in January 2009 — the largest increase in more than a quarter century but likely to seem puny to the millions who have been watching in horror as Wall Street lays waste to their retirement nest eggs. Every little bit [...]
Prosecutor: Nieves mentioned crime in rap song at jail
ELYRIA — While in the county jail awaiting trial for the murder of Samuel “Freddie” Walls in a botched drug robbery, Manuel Nieves wrote a rap about a robbery gone wrong. “It started off as a lick/and ended up into a murder/now I’m hoping and wishing/the boys don’t find the (expletive) burner,” Nieves can be [...]
Next phase of train station project OK’d
ELYRIA — By next fall, the old New York Central Railroad Station may be in business again. County commissioners on Thursday approved the second phase of an approximately $7.3 million restoration project that will see the former train depot transformed into a transportation center that will house the Lorain County Transit offices and serve as [...]
Omar downgraded to tropical storm
MIAMI — Forecasters say Omar has weakened to a tropical storm with top winds of 70 mph as it heads toward the open Atlantic. Officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands say Omar knocked down trees and caused some flooding and minor mudslides there. But there were no immediate reports of deaths or major damage. As [...]
BLOTTER: Oct. 17, 2008
County sheriff Saturday, Oct. 11 4:26 a.m. – Lake Avenue near Griswold Road, Elyria Township, Larry K. Johnson, 20, residence unknown, charged with underage consumption, obstructing official business and disorderly conduct by intoxication. 12:38 a.m. – 1600 block School St., Sheffield Township, a 17-year-old boy was charged with criminal mischief, criminal trespass and underage drinking. [...]
Some counties still scrambling to find enough poll workers
CINCINNATI — Election officials in Ohio say they’re not panicking. But less than three weeks before the presidential election, some counties still don’t have enough poll workers to assure there won’t be long lines of frustrated voters. “I can tell you from personal experience, I have heard a lot of begging going on in my [...]
WEOL celebrates landmark years
ELYRIA — Break out the streamers and balloons — WEOL is celebrating two special dates this weekend. Friday marks the station’s 60th anniversary of broadcasting and Sunday is its 50th anniversary of airing the First United Methodist Church 11 a.m. services on Sunday mornings. Of the two, the latter is a far rarer occurrence in [...]
Detention home gets emergency funding
ELYRIA — Lorain County commissioners on Thursday approved an extra $206,000 to get another cash-strapped county department through the end of the year, and they’re not done yet. Domestic Relations Court Administrator Doug Messer said the money was necessary to meet payroll at the county Juvenile Detention Home, which has seen a steep rise in [...]
Avon house could outlive a war, but not commercial development
AVON — Kitter Stanley’s childhood home is set to be demolished today. She’ll get to keep her memories. Everything else has gone to charity. “My mother loved that house. It was like another child for her,” said the 66-year-old, who now lives in Minnesota. “That house was my sister.” Margery Stanley designed the 2,700-square-foot home [...]
Women honored for community service
ELYRIA — On Thursday, seven local women were honored for their commitment to the community at the first Women of Compassion luncheon sponsored by the Community Foundation of Lorain County. These women, along with a sold-out crowd of 345 spectators, filled the brown-and-pink-decorated Spitzer Conference Center at Lorain County Community College. “It’s a great day [...]
Lisa M. Weaver
Lisa M. Weaver (nee Wright), 36, passed away Wednesday, October 15, 2008. She was the beloved wife of Bruce J. Weaver; dear daughter of Thomas and Joan Wright; granddaughter of Edmund and June Wright; daughter-in-law of Ed and Alice Weaver; sister-in-law of Marilyn Gannon, Kelly Tuli and Wendy Banfield; aunt of three nephews. She was [...]
Hobbyist moving store to Chestnut Commons
ELYRIA — After almost 25 years on the outskirts of Strongsville, a hobby store with merchandise for the kid in everyone is moving to Chestnut Commons. Jerry Ivancic hopes to open his store, Strongsville Hobby, the first week of November as one of the first businesses to settle in the second shopping strip near Cleveland [...]