Archive for January, 2009
Oakwood students express hopes for new administration
ELYRIA — Instead of just learning about history in the abstract, the future of America watched history unfold Tuesday as students tuned in for Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony. At Oakwood Elementary School in Elyria, the fourth-grade classroom of Amy Chizmar watched the ceremony, which she had projected onto a white screen in front of the [...]
Office worker on break thwarts theft
ELYRIA — An alleged thief’s attempt to steal a purse from a van in the Applebee’s parking lot was thwarted when a woman saw him from her second-floor office. Renetta Hubbard left her desk inside Heritage Home Health Care to take a break from work about 3 p.m. As she sipped water, decompressing from a [...]
Route 18 closing for repairs
WELLINGTON — State Route 18 will be closed Thursday and part of Friday for railroad crossing repairs, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation. The closure will be about one-sixth of a mile west of state Route 58. The detour for westbound motorists is Route 18 to Route 58, north on Route 58 to U.S. [...]
Blotter: Jan. 21, 2009
Lorain police Sunday, Jan. 18 10:21 a.m. – 1100 block Washington Ave., vehicle stolen along with cell phone and purse from home. 1:44 p.m. – 2600 block Oakdale Ave., theft of two tool sets and an Alpine car stereo from truck. 8:38 p.m. – 2900 block Elyria Ave., a woman reported her grandson smacked her [...]
Property tax bills in the mail
Your property tax bill is in the mail. Depending on where you live, your tax rate may be going up or down, said Lorain County Auditor Mark Stewart during a news conference Tuesday. Worst off will be residents whose homes are in the Amherst school district, who will see rates jump significantly because of an [...]
Audit: Carlisle Township books off by $1.4 million
CARLISLE TWP. — Between 2006 and 2007, the township’s books were a disaster, according to an audit released Tuesday by state Auditor Mary Taylor. The problems were so bad, the auditors concluded, that at the end of 2007, the township overstated how much money it had by nearly $1.4 million. At the end of 2006, [...]
Midview raises pay-to-play fees
GRAFTON — The Midview School Board voted, 4-0, Tuesday to raise activity fees for most high school sports to $550 and to charge $325 for middle school sports. The board also voted unanimously to tell the Ohio School Facilities Commission that it wants to use $17.5 million of a $22 million state credit to build [...]
Traffic snarls, teens trudge miles as Midview High busing ends
GRAFTON — Getting to and from Midview High School on Tuesday was a challenge after busing was eliminated for nearly 800 students. A line of headlights could be seen after 6:30 a.m. and frustrations grew as the 7:15 a.m. start of school approached. “It’s 7:10, and we’re still a ways from the school,” said parent [...]
Midview Schools superintendent resigns
GRAFTON — The Midview School Board will be seeking a new superintendent after accepting the resignation of Howard Dulmage, who has been with the district four years. Dulmage, 69, who did double duty as business manager, said, “It’s time they hire a full-time superintendent for the next five or six years.” Dulmage, who will leave [...]
Firefighters picket Council meeting over cuts
ELYRIA — About 35 off-duty firefighters picketed outside City Hall on Tuesday night as Council prepared to consider legislation that would reduce the number of firefighters that had to be on duty during each shift. The firefighters carried signs saying Mayor Bill Grace lied when he said passage of a 0.5 percent income tax renewal [...]
Buses running again on road where one slid off
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — A week after one slid into a ditch, school buses could resume rolling down Dyke Avenue as soon as Thursday to begin picking up schoolchildren living along the construction-cluttered street. Officials from the city engineering department met Tuesday with school officials, including a transportation supervisor, to resolve a situation that led to [...]
Lorain Council slashes summer sewer discount
LORAIN — City Council eliminated a discount in sanitary sewer rates Tuesday that could bring an additional $350,000 to $400,000 into Lorain’s coffers. A city ordinance was amended, eliminating the method of calculating bills in which a resident’s usage from December through February is used to calculate their June through August bills, even though summer [...]
Woman devotes life to helping the blind
OBERLIN — Barbara Pierce retired as president of the National Federation of the Blind of Ohio last November. Her work, however, is far from finished. Pierce, a resident of Oberlin, has been actively helping blind people for more three decades. She talks passionately of her work and of the issues she has championed, although she [...]
Oberlin/Wellington blotter: Jan. 21, 2009
Oberlin police Monday, Jan. 5 8:14 p.m. – West College Street, counterfeit currency used at business. Monday, Jan 12 10:20 a.m. – 200 block Artino St., assault complaint at business; staff member reported a client slapped him on the face. Tuesday, Jan. 13 2:34 a.m. – South Park Street, Rebekah Kovacs, 26, of Oberlin, charged [...]
Oberlin/Wellington notebook: Jan. 21, 2009
Morrison, Rehm to speak at Oberlin Convocation Series speakers for the spring semester at Oberlin College are Lorain native Toni Morrison, winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize and 1993 Nobel Prize in literature; actor, author and award-winning playwright Eric Bogosian; theoretical physicist Brian Greene, an expert on string theory; and Diane Rehm, host of “The [...]
Paula C. Wanosky
Paula C. Wanosky (nee Gorske), 64, of North Ridgeville, passed away suddenly Monday, January 19, 2009 at her home. Born in Oberlin, she was a resident of North Ridgeville for the past 36 years, moving from Fairview Park. Mrs. Wanosky worked as a science teacher for North Ridgeville High School for 12 years, retiring in [...]
Marjorie Ann Messersmith
Marjorie Ann Messersmith, 85, of Wellington, died Thursday, December 18, 2008 at Allen Community Hospital in Oberlin. A memorial service will be held 11 A.M. Saturday, January 24, 2009 at the New Life Assembly of God Church, 108 West Street, Wellington. Condolences can be expressed online at: www.norton-eastmanfuneralhome.com
John David Wilhelm
John "Jack" David Wilhelm, 86, of Elyria, died Sunday, January 18, 2009, at The Northridge Health Center in North Ridgeville, following a long illness. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by The Bauer-Laubenthal-Mercado Funeral Home of Elyria (440)322-4626.
Jane T. Wazyniak
Jane T. Wazyniak (nee Mrukowski), 91, formerly of Elyria, passed away Sunday, January 18, 2009 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the Reichlin Roberts Funeral Home, 327 Cleveland St., Elyria.
Helen Beam
Helen Beam (nee Yuhas), 91, of Elyria, passed away Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at the Center Ridge Health Campus after a short illness. She was born December 29, 1917 in Belle Valley, Ohio. Helen lived in North Ridgeville for the past five years, Elyria from 1994 to 2004, and Mountain Home, Arkansas from the early [...]
Gertrude E. Drew
Gertrude E. Drew (nee Jesko), 79, of Lorain, passed away at Firelands Regional Medical Center in Sandusky, under the care of Stein Hospice. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Wyers Funeral Chapel.
Emily Pawinski Valentine
Emily Pawinski Valentine (nee Andrzejczyk), 86, of Elyria, passed away Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at EMH Regional Medical Center. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the Reichlin Roberts Funeral Home, 327 Cleveland Street, Elyria.
Diane E. Agosto
Diane Elizabeth Agosto, 62, of Lorain, died Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at Community Health Partners West, in Lorain, after a sudden illness. Dicken Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Elyria, handled arrangements.
Betty L. Huhtala
Betty L. Huhtala (nee Struthers), passed away Saturday, January 17, 2009. Betty was the beloved wife of the late Eugene M.; loving mother of Harriet S. Thompson, Betsy G. Huhtala and Marsha H. Godart; grandmother of Emily Thompson, Matthew Godart and Rae Godart. Graveside services were held at Zion Lutheran Cemetery in Fairport Harbor, Ohio. [...]
Andrew P. O’Connor
Andrew P. O’Connor, 38, of Elyria, died Sunday, January 18, 2009 due to complications from a motorcycle accident November 4, 2007. He was born May 26, 1970, in Columbus. Andrew was a hang around for the Cleveland Hell’s Angels. He was employed as a die setter for Progressive Plastics in Cleveland. He was a 1988 [...]