Archive for February, 2009
Karen Wilson
Karen Wilson, 46, died Thursday, February 5, 2009, at Marymount South Hospital in Broadview Heights, following an automobile accident. She was born December 22, 1962 in Elyria and lived here all of her life. Karen was a graduate of Elyria High School and Remington College in Rocky River. She was a member of the House [...]
Irene Constance Wissinger
Irene Constance Wissinger (nee Staysniak), 85, passed away peacefully in her home Wednesday, February 4, 2009, under the tender loving care of her family and New Life Hospice, after a lengthy illness. Born August 15, 1923, Irene lived her entire life in her Elyria home. At a young age, her parents passed away and she [...]
NaJia Diara Rayal Boone
NaJia Diara Rayal Boone, 8, of Elyria, died Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at Metro Health Medical Center in Cleveland. She was born March 4, 2009 in Elyria, and had been a lifelong resident. She attended McKinley Elementary School in Elyria where she was a third grader and honor roll student. She was a happy child [...]
Thomas S. Schultz, Jr.
Thomas S. Schultz Jr, 78, of North Ridgeville, died Wednesday, February 4, 2009 in University Hospital, Cleveland, following a brief illness. He was born August 7, 1930 in Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard Island, Massachusetts. He resided in North Ridgeville the past 44 years after moving from Elyria. He had been on the North Ridgeville Police [...]
Robert Benjamin Dupaski
Robert Benjamin Dupaski, 71, of Indianapolis, Indiana, passed away Wednesday, January 21, 2009. He was born December 18, 1937 in Berea to the late, Benjamin and Stella Kolodiziej Dupaski. Bob served in the United States Air Force from 1956 to 1960. He was a 1956 graduate of Columbia High School and and also a graduate [...]
WHAT HAPPENED? Tumbling economy turns Elyria’s shaky budget into a disaster
ELYRIA — Just a few months ago, city officials were saying that if residents passed Issue 15 in November — an income tax renewal issue — it would keep the city safe. Without that critical bit of cash flow, they said, the city faced dire consequences: The layoffs of police and firefighters, the loss of [...]
WHAT HAPPENED? Union’s letter to city officials
Dear Council Member: As the City faces many General fund challenges in the coming months, the unavoidable issue of layoffs is upon us. The AFSCME Officers feel that Council should be aware of a few of the following concerns that we have, as it appears that our employees will be the ones laid off. The [...]
Bank official: Local economy depressing, won’t be a depression
ELYRIA — The weather may have been warming outside, but at the Team Lorain County groundhog economic forecast breakfast on Friday, the prediction was for continuing storm clouds with a chance of sun sometime in the future. “The situation is clearly depressing,” Robert Legget, chief investment officer for FirstMerit Bank, told the audience. Although the [...]
Probate Judge Horvath retires
ELYRIA — Lorain County Probate Judge Frank Horvath won’t have any place to be on Monday morning. The 72-year-old Horvath’s last official day of work was Friday, which also marked the final day of a separate Probate Court in the county. It’s a court that Horvath has presided over for the past 18 years. Horvath, [...]
Vigil for slain girl set for Monday
ELYRIA — A prayer vigil will be 5 p.m. Monday in Ely Square on Monday for 8-year-old shooting victim Najia Boone. The vigil is being organized by Interfaith Ministries Against Violence and The Task Force for Community Mobilization. Najia was shot in the head Sunday by her 10-year-old brother as they struggled over a gun [...]
Eaton Twp. family reports $59,000 taken from safe
EATON TWP. — Someone entered a safe in an Arrowhead Drive home and stole $59,000 in cash, according to a sheriff’s report released Friday. Deputies were called to the home on Jan. 30 to take a report of a burglary, according to the report. The money was taken from the safe between 5 p.m. Jan. [...]
Two found in cold this week — man hospitalized, woman charged
ELYRIA — A 32-year-old Elyria man was in stable condition Friday night at EMH Regional Medical Center after being rescued from 19 degree temperatures early Friday. When police responded to a call for help at 2:42 a.m. at South Park Apartments on Middle Avenue, Eugene P. Wilson was sitting on the floor in one of [...]
Judges ask county to build them a wall
ELYRIA — A wall that hasn’t been built yet is all that physically stands in the way of having all four Family Court judges on the same floor of the Lorain County Justice Center when the controversial Family Court becomes a reality Monday. The county’s Probate Court is still slated to merge with the Domestic [...]
Bulan plans bid for mayor of Vermilion
VERMILION — The city’s former service director and immediate past president of Main Street Vermilion will seek the city’s highest office. Eileen Bulan has announced her candidacy for mayor, saying she had been asked to seek the office by many residents. In a statement, Bulan said she would devote herself to “improve Vermilion to make [...]
Photos on county Web site posted without consent
ELYRIA — Five photos posted by a Lorain woman on the picture-sharing Web site Flickr.com were briefly the intro page to the county’s recently redesigned Web site. Trouble is, said Rona Proudfoot, the county never credited her for the photos — something that was required under the terms-of-use license she uses for her pictures, including [...]
Mother under investigation for nude photos
SHEFFIELD LAKE — A Sheffield Lake woman is under investigation for allegedly asking her children to take photos of her in various states of undress, including nude. The woman has not been charged, but her three children, 12, 11 and 8, temporarily were taken away from her by Lorain County Children Services, according to a [...]
Elyria woman dies in turnpike crash
BRECKSVILLE — An Elyria woman was killed and a Lorain man injured Thursday morning in a car accident on the Ohio Turnpike when she failed to slow down for another accident. Karen Wilson, 46, swerved to avoid a tractor-trailer traveling eastbound on the turnpike near Brecksville and lost control of her 2004 Pontiac Grand Am, [...]
Wellington school board delays bond retry
WELLINGTON — Faced with the reality of a bad economy that will, in all likelihood, grow worse, the school board has decided not to ask voters for a long-term bond issue to build a new school until at least November. “We hope by then that we can learn more about what the public is thinking, [...]
Homework help is just a library away
LORAIN — Area students have an excellent learning resource right at their fingertips. For the past two years, the Homework Help Center at the main branch of the Lorain Public Library has been fostering an environment of creativity for kindergarten through eight-grade students and helping them with school work. The center, which operates 3:30 to [...]
State Rep. Lundy to hold first town hall meeting Thursday
State Rep. Matt Lundy, D-57th District, will again hold monthly town hall meetings. The first is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday at the Elyria Public Library on West River Road, N. The “Lundy Listens” meetings are meant to give constituents the opportunity to voice their concerns. Lorainite lucky winner A Lorain resident recently won $120,000 [...]
LCCC sets enrollment record again
ELYRIA — Spring semester enrollment for Lorain County Community College has again set a ecord. Enrollment topped last spring by 6.4 percent with 11,190 students enrolled. Last spring, enrollment set a record and reached 10,514. This semester’s enrollment also surpassed the fall enrollment of 11,181 students, which was an all-time high for LCCC. Since 1999, [...]
Rosenbaum shooting will go to grand jury
ELYRIA — A special prosecutor investigating the shooting of former Chief Assistant Lorain County Prosecutor Jonathan Rosenbaum has told county sheriff’s deputies to prepare to present the case to a county grand jury later this month. Lorain County Sheriff’s Capt. John Reiber said Erie County Prosecutor Kevin Baxter is nearing the end of his review [...]
Duplex fire is Lorain auditor`s second loss in 2 months
LORAIN — The sound of gunshots made firefighters wary as they tried to battle a blaze Thursday at a Lorain duplex. The gunshots weren’t being fired at them, though. Rather, it was ammunition exploding from the heat of the blaze, Assistant Fire Chief Roy Cochran said. “There were some guns and ammunition in the apartment,” [...]
Through the eyes of a caricature artist
GRAFTON — Perfection is usually a key element in the eyes of an artist. But for Grafton caricature artist Matthew Minnich, anything goes when his marker hits the paper. With a subject less than 6 feet away, Minnich studies the face, then quickly turns his attention to his drawing board. Less than two minutes later, [...]
Grafton/LaGrange/Columbia Notebook: February 6, 2008
Benefit will help pay medical bills Peggy Horvath, co-owner of Affordable Pet Services in LaGrange, has helped many seniors and disabled people through her Many Paws Reach Out Program. Now it’s time to reach out to Horvath. Several weeks ago, Horvath was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and must undergo surgery. She has beaten ovarian cancer [...]