Archive for November, 2009
Grafton, LaGrange & Columbia blotter: Nov. 27, 2009
LaGrange police Sunday, Nov. 8 9:06 p.m. – North Center Street, Justin Mayne, 21, Wellington, charged with refusing to take a blood-alcohol test and operation without reasonable control. Thursday, Nov. 12 3:40 a.m. – IGA, a 15-year-old boy was charged with theft and underage possession of alcohol. Thursday, Nov. 19 6:30 p.m. – Robinson Drive, [...]
Grafton, LaGrange & Columbia notebook: Nov. 27, 2009
Wrestling club’s breakfast with Santa The Midview Wrestling Club will be host a breakfast with Santa 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday at the Midview High School. Tickets are $5 and will be available at the door. There will also be vendors available selling various items. Proceeds from the breakfast will benefit the Midview High School [...]
Grafton, LaGrange & Columbia calendar: Nov. 27, 2009
Grafton-Midview Public Library • Books for Babes for Christmas, Monday through Dec. 10 (bring books to the library by noon Dec. 10). • Read to the therapy dogs in the library, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. • Medicare check-up day, 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, presentation followed by question and answer session; individual counseling will be available. [...]
Grafton, Columbia & LaGrange prepare for holiday celebrations
The spirit of the holiday season is beginning to show in Columbia, Grafton and LaGrange as the communities prepare for their annual holiday events. Columbia The second annual “Festival of Trees — A Merry Christmas to All” sponsored by the Columbia Chamber of Commerce will be held in the Columbia Township Park on state Route [...]
Bargain hunters camp out at Midway Mall
ELYRIA – About three dozen hard-core bargain hunters traded turkey for tents Thursday night as they prepared to sleep outside Best Buy at Midway Mall in order to get first dibs on Black Friday sale items. Kurt Kauk, 25, of Vermilion, volunteered to camp out for his family. He was handed a variety of credit [...]
63 Lorain storefronts to get holiday treatment
Joe Skodny has a childhood memory of Christmas in Lorain that has stuck with him. He recalls riding down Broadway as snowflakes fell and Christmas music played. Christmas decorations hung overhead, and every storefront was done up in holiday fashion. “I remember thinking as a little kid, ‘God, this must be Christmas heaven. This must [...]
More swine flu clinics planned
ELYRIA – The city of Elyria Health District has 6,565 additional doses of H1N1 flu vaccine and 900 doses of seasonal flu vaccine it plans to distribute in five additional flu clinics. Already, the city health district has distributed some 5,400 doses of H1NI, according to Environmental Health Director Dave Oakes. The H1N1 vaccine is [...]
Man shot in Lorain in fair condition
A Lorain man was in fair condition Thursday at a Cleveland hospital after being shot multiple times earlier in the week. Sami Gadsden, 32, was shot in his chest and abdomen Tuesday night. Police were called to the 1300 block of Shafer Drive in Lorain and found Gadsden lying in a hallway. Gadsden was able [...]
Police log: Nov. 27, 2009
Lorain police Tuesday, Nov. 24 10:45 a.m. – 2200 block Adam St., Christmas decorations stolen from front yard of home. 11:18 a.m. – 3600 block Toledo Ave., home broken into. Copper pipes cut. 11:48 a.m. – 1100 block Washington Ave., man assaulted by two men. 12:57 p.m. – 1300 block S. Danley Square, home window [...]
Obituaries for Nov. 27, 2009
Jack C. Riffle Ercile C. Eaton Terry Edwards Terrance L. Davis Katherine E. Workman Martin E. Tress William W. Miller, M.D. Ruth J. Smith Douglas Earl Hines Vesta Opal Shipwash Read the full obituaries on The Chronicle E-edition at: http://www.chroniclet.com/ChroniclEdition/
Girls basketball: Elyria hoping to start season strong at Lorain County Holiday Classic
Will it be just another run-of-the-mill season-opening weekend for the Elyria girls basketball team? Run-of-the-mill in this context means going undefeated — as the Pioneers do just about every season-opening weekend — and winning still another Lorain County Holiday Classic championship. (Prior to 2005, the tournament was played over Christmas break.) In the 10 previous [...]
Browns not sure who will be their running back next season
The Browns’ running back situation is in flux and won’t be settled until the team has gone through free agency and the draft. Jamal Lewis remains the feature back, but will retire after six more games. Jerome Harrison has gone from possible future star to forgotten man. Rookie James Davis, a sixth-round pick, carried nine [...]
Cavaliers’ O’Neal pays for slain girl’s funeral
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – Basketball star Shaquille O’Neal paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl after being moved by national news coverage of the case of Shaniya Davis, who police say was kidnapped and killed. The Cleveland Cavaliers player was touched by the stories he saw and got in touch with the family [...]
Baldwin-Wallace men’s basketball: Elyria grad Cabbill off to strong start
BEREA — Last season was the first time Baldwin-Wallace’s men’s basketball team didn’t play in the Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament since the OAC changed its postseason format in 2005, but the Yellow Jackets are not wallowing in that fact. If anything, this year’s team is out to prove last year was an aberration, one that [...]
Baldwin-Wallace women’s basketball: Team is looking for a leader
BEREA — The challenges are coming early and often for the Baldwin-Wallace women’s basketball program. After graduating a class that went 95-23 overall and 60-12 in the Ohio Athletic Conference and made three appearances in the NCAA Division III Tournament in four seasons, Yellow Jackets coach Cheri Harrer enters her 20th season with seven returning [...]
Browns notes: Progress a slow process for Robiskie
BEREA – Rookie receiver Brian Robiskie experienced a wide range of emotions Sunday as he sat on the bench in a Browns T-shirt. The offense scored a season-high 37 points, but Robiskie was inactive for the third time. “When you see your teammates making big plays and you see them executing on things that we’ve [...]
Browns’ offense hopes last week was a sign of things to come
BEREA – The Browns offense doesn’t want to be lumped in with Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Norman Greenbaum and Lipps, Inc. “You don’t want to be like a one-hit wonder,” coach Eric Mangini said Wednesday. “You have to go out and do it the next week.” After nine games of record-low numbers, the Browns erupted for [...]
LeBron James, Cavaliers hold off Pistons
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – LeBron James soared through the air and did a double-pump dunk that included a shot to his head that pushed his headband off his forehead. “And one!” James shouted at the officials, pleading for a foul. No, James doesn’t always get superstar calls. James did get what he wanted Wednesday night, [...]
All-Lorain County football: Avon Lake sweeps big-school awards
Many area football fans believe Avon Lake is the cream of the crop when it comes to Lorain County programs, and the county’s coaches agreed with them this season as the Shoremen dominated the all-county lists and swept the special awards. Christian Pace, who will play for Michigan next year, was named the big schools’ [...]
Oberlin’s electric supplier to convert future coal-fired plant to cleaner fuels
Columbus-based American Municipal Power Inc., which supplies power to Oberlin, Wellington, Amherst and Grafton, announced plans Wednesday for the likely conversion of a controversial $3.9 billion coal-fired power plant to be built on the Ohio River to natural gas and other cleaner fuels. The switch came as a result of a 37 percent increase in [...]
Reasons to give thanks
Without jobs, residents still find ways to celebrate
Shooting victim remains in hospital
LORAIN — A 32-year-old Lorain man remained hospitalized Wednesday at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland after being shot in an apartment on Lorain’s west side. MetroHealth declined to disclose the condition of Sami Gadsden of Lorain. According to reports from Lorain police, officers were called to an apartment in the 1300 block of Shafer Drive. [...]
Crash on Route 18 ties up traffic
WELLINGTON — Four teens walked away from a two-car crash Wednesday afternoon that tied up traffic on state Route 18 for more than an hour. The crash occurred at the intersection of state Route 18 and West Road in Wellington. According to the Ohio Highway Patrol, Russell Ladina, 16, of Oberlin, was heading southbound on [...]
BLOTTER: Nov. 26, 2009
Lorain police Monday, Nov. 23 1:40 p.m. – 5300 block Leavitt Road, Super Kmart, Rosaria Anderson-Cammarata, 41, of Vermilion, charged with petty theft, accused of attempting to shoplift two ink cartridges. 3:09 p.m. – 2600 block Homewood Drive, copper piping stolen from vacant house. 7:19 p.m. – 1900 block Hamilton Ave. Attempted home invasion and [...]
Sandy Prudoff helps holiday charity’s efforts
LORAIN — Former Lorain Community Development Director Sandy Prudoff is gone from city government, but he has found something to pass the time in his retirement — volunteering with the Neighborhood House Association. “He’s going to be helping out with our Christmas for Kids program,” said Mike Mayse, the association’s director. Mayse said he isn’t [...]