Archive for October, 2009
Delonte West back with Cavs but not expected to play tonight
INDEPENDENCE — The Cavaliers are whole again — at least for now. Guard Delonte West formally returned to the team Tuesday after a one-week absence to attend to personal matters and went through practice at Cleveland Clinic Courts. West is unlikely to play tonight when the Cavaliers host the much-improved Washington Wizards in exhibition action [...]
In a decade of dreadful draft decisions, passing on Roethlisberger stands out
The roll call of the decade’s dreadful draft decisions is better known to most Browns fans than the team’s Hall of Famers. Any diehard worth his Tim Couch, Gerard Warren or William Green jersey could tell you the Browns passed on Donovan McNabb, LaDainian Tomlinson and Ed Reed on draft day in 1999, 2001 and [...]
Elyria earns share of volleyball division title, can win it all Thursday
ELYRIA — It’s not over yet, in the eyes of Jodie Johnson. Elyria clinched a share of the Northeast Ohio Conference Valley Division championship Tuesday evening by defeating Medina, 25-12, 25-18, 22-25, 25-14. “But we’re not satisfied with a tie,” said Johnson, the Pioneers’ head coach. The Pioneers will try to win the division outright [...]
Inconsistencies slowing Buckeyes’ offense
COLUMBUS — Almost everyone thinks Ohio State’s offense has the components to produce a lot of points. For some reason, it isn’t happening. “One minute you’re doing great, you put up 400 yards and everybody thinks we’re the best offense in the world,” wide receiver/kick returner Ray Small said Tuesday. “The next minute you only [...]
Boy soccer: Elyria has shots but can only get tie
ELYRIA — There were plenty of shots to keep players warm on a cold, cloudy and windy day, but few found the net Tuesday afternoon as Elyria and Nordonia fought to a 1-1 tie in a Northeast Ohio Conference Lake Division match. The Pioneers (4-8-3, 1-1-2) shot an amazing 31 times at the Knights’ goal, [...]
Lorain councilman wants to split Community Development Department
LORAIN — City Councilman Greg Holcomb wants to divide the duties of the city’s Community Development Department — a move that he says will make the two departments more efficient. “What we have now is a one-stop shopping group of people,” Holcomb, D-6th Ward, said of the fifth floor of City Hall. “It’s really hard [...]
Auxiliary drive for homeless vets socks-sessful
ELYRIA — Wool or cotton, white or colored, socks are well — socks. But thanks to donations from the Vermilion AMVETS and Vermilion Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Elyria’s American Legion Post 12 Ladies Auxiliary is turning 400 pairs of brand-new socks into much-needed smiles for homeless veterans in Lorain County. The socks, enough to [...]
National union leader arrested at Avon home
WASHINGTON — The president of a national railroad employees union was arrested at his Avon home on Tuesday and charged with bribery. Rodzwicz Edward Rodzwicz, who heads the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, is accused of soliciting and accepting $20,000 in bribes from a St. Louis lawyer. In exchange, prosecutors say, Rodzwicz allowed the [...]
Lorain charity poker may start Halloween weekend
LORAIN — Lorain County’s first charity poker tournament may be happening as soon as Halloween weekend in Lorain, said promoter Mike Kennedy. Kennedy, owner of Broadway Billiards on Broadway in Lorain, spent some time playing poker professionally and was instrumental in getting City Council to approve legislation allowing charity poker tournaments. “I intend to raise [...]
Oberlin school board vice president resigns
OBERLIN — Oberlin School Board Vice President Paula Jones resigned her board position Monday for what she described as personal reasons. Jones, who was in the middle of a four-year term, hand-delivered a letter Monday to Board President Beth Weiss that stated she was resigning effective Monday. The school board on Tuesday was considering the [...]
Anti-Grace petitions turned in; mayor confident he’d survive a recall
ELYRIA — The two founders of Stand Up Elyria, the group hoping to unseat Mayor Bill Grace with a recall election, took the first step toward achieving their goal Tuesday by hand-delivering dozens of petitions to the Clerk of Council’s office. The petitions contained the signatures of 2,630 people gathered in the last year and [...]
Elyria Council takes comments on design-review process
ELYRIA — Design review is a costly thing to go through for a business owner. No one knows that more than George’s Roofing owner Jim Chorak, one of the business owners who detailed the expenses and hassles of Elyria’s design review process at a meeting Tuesday night at City Hall. Six years ago, Chorak moved [...]
VIDEO: Elyria fire official pleads no contest after DUI arrest
AVON LAKE — An assistant Elyria fire chief was fined $1,000 and will have to take a two-day class on drinking and driving after pleading no contest to charges of physical control and reckless operation on Tuesday. Ron Brlas was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and running a red light shortly [...]
Corrections for Oct. 14, 2009
A blotter item from Oct. 6 that was published Saturday was incorrect when it said Rosalyn Wade was charged with assault. No charges were filed against Wade, 57, of Elyria. Mary Van Nortwick’s position with the League of Women Voters was misidentified Tuesday in a story about the death penalty panel discussion in Oberlin. Van [...]
Police log for Oct. 14, 2009
County sheriff Friday, Oct. 2 11:20 a.m. – 12400 block Harmony Drive, Eaton Township, television and prescription drugs stolen from residence. Sunday, Oct. 11 11:52 p.m. – 200 block Oakwood St., Carlisle Township, Steven Dawson, 25, Carlisle Township, charged with domestic violence. Elyria police Monday, Oct. 12 8:01 p.m. – 1500 block West River Road [...]
Update: Live Stream from tonight’s meeting on design review.
ELYRIA -The meeting of the Community Development Committee will begin at 6:30 p.m. in Council chambers, and all residents and business owners who have been through the process are invited to speak. Councilman Tom Callahan, D-at large, said city leaders called the meeting to learn the good, the bad and the ugly about the program. [...]
Cavs’ West rejoins team at practice
CLEVELAND – Cavaliers guard Delonte West returned to the team Tuesday after a one-week absence and went through practice at Cleveland Clinic Courts. West, who has a Nov. 20 court date in Maryland on weapons charges, did not speak with the media. The team said his absence was excused as he was being allowed the [...]
Elyria Muni Court reports: Oct. 2 to Oct. 8, 2009
Elyria Municipal Court sentence summary report: Oct. 2, 2009, through Oct. 8, 2009: Please allow several minutes for the report to load, depending on the speed of your Internet connection. Click on the plus or minus symbols below to zoom in or out and use the arrows or scroll bars to move around the report.
Obituaries for Oct. 13, 2009
David Alan Sherrard Kenneth Gunter Anne I. Yacobozzi Logan J. Spradlin Elsie A. Bryda Beverly A. Porter Robert A. Meyers Read the full obituaries on The Chronicle E-edition at: http://www.chroniclet.com/ChroniclEdition/
BREAKING NEWS: Elderly Amherst couple found dead in home
AMHERST — An elderly Amherst couple was found dead in their home yesterday afternoon, the result of a murder-suicide, according to Lorain County Coroner Paul Matus. An EMS squad was called to the home, at 952 Wilshire Drive, about 3:40 p.m. to do a welfare check after family members hadn’t heard from the husband and [...]
Butt of jokes or not, Browns will take ugly win
BEREA — The 24 hours that followed weren’t kind to the Browns’ 6-3 win over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday. The only national airtime it received was as the butt of jokes. Ugly and unwatchable were common descriptions, and one ESPN talking head said it set professional football back a century. Don’t tell that to [...]
Perfect hearts: Guardians improve to 15-0
COLUMBIA TWP. — Fifteen down, one to go. The Hearts for Jesus Christ Guardians won their 15th game of the season Monday night in a nonconference game against Columbia by the score of 2-1. With one regular-season game remaining, Hearts for Jesus will look for its second undefeated regular season against Oberlin on Thursday. If [...]
A dirty job: ROTC cleans up after Buckeyes fans
COLUMBUS — At 5:45 a.m. Sunday, just a few hours after their friends had gone to bed, the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps prepared for a daunting mission. The objective: picking up after the 105,301 Buckeyes fans who attended the football game Saturday against Wisconsin. The volume of the remnants in Ohio Stadium seemed to [...]
Shaq dive the highlight in Cavs’ rout of Greek team
CLEVELAND — Shaquille O’Neal didn’t do a diving challenge on “Shaq Vs.,” but the big fellow performed one Monday at Quicken Loans Arena. In a mundane game that saw the Cavaliers rout Greece’s Olympiacos Piraeus 111-94, watching the 7-foot-1, 315-pound O’Neal take a second-quarter plunge was one of the few highlights. “I felt sorry for [...]
Ohio man meets the people who make our clothes
AMHERST — Kelsey Timmerman never set out to be a Michael Moore or a muckraking investigator exposing graft and corruption. “I never set out to write a book … I set out to travel,” the Muncie, Ind., resident said last week by phone. But his curiosity grew about the people and countries that produced many [...]