Archive for December, 2009
EC grad McLaughlin on Olympic hockey team
Since she was four years old and learning to skate at the North Park Complex Ice Arena, Sheffield Village resident and Elyria Catholic product Brianne McLaughlin has worked hard to improve her skills on and off the ice. That hard work paid off Thursday afternoon when McLaughlin was officially named to the final Team USA [...]
Holmgren may comment on Browns job today
BEREA — Mike Holmgren is expected to make his first public comments on meetings with Browns owner Randy Lerner later today. He’s scheduled to make a radio appearance on Seattle’s KJR 950-AM at 3 o’clock. Holmgren, who has been offered the head of football operations job with the Browns but has yet to respond, is [...]
Peacocks stealing the show today at the APL
ELYRIA — Peacocks are stealing the show today at the Friendship Animal Protective League in Elyria. The APL’s been flooded with calls all morning — and not calls about dogs and cats, according to Cheryl Rourke at the APL. They have 10 good candidates to take two peacocks they rescued in Lorain yesterday, one of [...]
AUDIO: Ohio unemployment rises to 10.6 percent
COLUMBUS — Ohio’s unemployment rate has edged up to 10.6 percent for November, from 10.5 percent the month before. Listen to an interview with Brian Harter from Ohio’s Job & Family Services: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services said Friday that the jobs picture changed only [...]
Lorain police report another attempted abduction on Oberlin Avenue
LORAIN — A 13-year-old Lorain girl told police a man tried to lure her into his truck while she was walking from school to meet her grandmother Wednesday afternoon. The girl said she was walking near St. Peter church on Oberlin Avenue when a black man in a red SUV, possibly a four-door Chevy Blazer, [...]
High school wrestling: Amherst in control versus Westlake
AMHERST — Amherst was in control of its Southwestern Conference season-opening dual meet Thursday night with visiting Westlake with four matches to go, but the Demons still had a chance. Trailing by 10, Westlake’s Brad Spreng was just 10 seconds away from a clutch 189-pound victory over Amherst senior Jake Cumberledge. But Cumberledge scored a [...]
Browns’ defense shines through injuries
BEREA — Football can be a crazy game. Nose tackle Shaun Rogers joined inside linebacker D’Qwell Jackson on injured reserve Dec. 1, leaving the Browns without their two best defenders. The defense finished the Steelers game Dec. 10 with only two of the opening-day front seven healthy — linebackers Kamerion Wimbley and David Bowens. Yet [...]
Obituaries for Oct. 18, 2009
Daniel Anthony Reardon Ethel M. Gibbons Edward Lee White Thomas W. Toole Russell Paul Hunkley George McNulty Michael C. Hinds Alice M. Hofmann Bernice C. Zmina Read the full obituaries on The Chronicle E-edition at: http://www.chroniclet.com/ChroniclEdition/
Avon Lake residents team up for Magnificat
Brianna Murnan and Katie Cooney have been best friends since age 3 and gymnastics teammates for more than 12 years. You could say the Avon Lake residents and Magnificat High students get along pretty well. “We never fight or anything,” Cooney said. “We’re always just happy for each other. We have just so much fun [...]
County’s new cutbacks won’t come from sheriff or prosecutor’s office
ELYRIA — Departments that put criminals behind bars are protected — for now — from additional cuts in the 2010 budget passed by county commissioners on Thursday. Commissioners slashed nearly $1.1 million to non-mandated services including the county airport, transit and economic development entities and slashed an additional $400,000 by cutting various departments an additional [...]
FAA could be player in airport closure battle
NEW RUSSIA TWP. — The Federal Aviation Administration has given Lorain County millions of dollars over the years and expects the airport to remain open, despite plans by the Lorain County commissioners to close it, a spokeswoman said Thursday. “The FAA has given them $9.2 million since 1983 to ensure that land remains an airport,” [...]
Lorain Council considers tax credit reduction
LORAIN — Most City Council members, department heads and several city workers spoke Thursday night in support of reducing the city’s income tax credit for residents who work outside the city from 2 percent to 1 percent in order to avoid 30 additional layoffs — many of them safety forces — next year. “Where we [...]
Fire out at Avon McDonald’s by I-90
AVON — Firefighters from several departments were called in this morning to respond to a fire at the McDonald’s in Avon, near the state Route 611 exit of Interstate 90. First responders from Avon reported at about 8 a.m. that the fire, which was largely contained to a freezer, was out. They requested that firefighters [...]
Vote on St. Joseph Community Center rescue is Monday
LORAIN — City Council will consider passing legislation Monday night that would allow the city to run St. Joseph’s Community Center effective Jan. 1. “Essentially it’s just a management agreement,” Mayor Tony Krasienko said. “We will take on the responsibility of the day-to-day operations.” After nearly a decade, South Shore Development Corp. announced in April [...]
Urban traffic alerts head to Twitter
COLUMBUS — Drivers in Ohio’s six biggest cities can now go to Twitter to find out about winter conditions before they get behind the wheel. Instant updates on weather and road conditions from the Ohio Department of Transportation are now available on Twitter.com for Cleveland, Akron, Toledo, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo. The pilot project [...]
Health district hosts flu clinics next week
OBERLIN — The Lorain County General Health District will sponsor two free H1N1 flu vaccine clinics from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Dec. 28 and Dec. 29 at the Lorain County Joint Vocational School on state Route 58. Kenneth G. Pearce, the county health district commissioner, noted that two doses of H1N1 vaccine are recommended [...]
Police log for Dec. 18, 2009
Elyria police Sunday, Dec. 13 10:00 a.m. – 1500 block West River Road N., purse stolen from car parked at Golden Corral. 10:34 a.m. – 1500 block West River Road N., window smashed on car parked at Golden Corral. Hair trimmers, clippers and scissors stolen. 11:26 a.m. – 6200 block West River Road S., unauthorized [...]
VIDEO: Peacock that’s roamed Lorain’s east side since summer will finally strut elsewhere
LORAIN — A peacock that has prowled an East Side Lorain neighborhood since early summer will finally be strutting elsewhere. Residents had been trying for months — no avail — to catch the bird, going after him with a net and calling in Lorain police, the dog warden and even the Lorain Fire Department. As [...]
BASF employees come through for the Not-Forgotten Box with big cash donation
ELYRIA — Elyria’s BASF Catalysts, a chemical company located on Pine Street, has donated more than $2,500 in cash to The Chronicle-Telegram’s Not-Forgotten Box. The donation of $2,650.27 was a combination of money pitched in by the company and a slew of events employees hold throughout the year specifically to raise money for the Not-Forgotten [...]
Lorain woman in hospital with fractured neck
LORAIN — A Lorain woman hurt Monday in a rollover accident in South Lorain and reported to have been treated and released is actually in a Cleveland hospital with a fractured neck, her daughter, Elizabeth Miller, said today. Nancy Cortes, 51, was driving a Nissan Frontier south on Palm Avenue a little after 7:30 a.m. [...]
Browns haven’t discussed money with Holmgren, but plan to talk again soon
BEREA — The Browns have not discussed money with Mike Holmgren but agreed to talk again in the near future, team spokesman Bill Bonsiewicz said Thursday morning. Bonsiewicz stopped by the media room inside team headquarters to provide an update on the negotiations with Holmgren, who met with Browns owner Randy Lerner on Monday and [...]
Crushers outfielder performs in ‘Nutcracker’ debut tomorrow night
Baseball and “The Nutcracker” may not have that much in common, but that’s not stopping the Ohio Dance Theatre. This holiday season, the group has made Lake Erie Crushers outfielder Arden McWilliams a celebrity guest performer for Friday’s opening night of its annual production of “The Nutcracker,” which runs through the weekend at the Lorain [...]
Bengals player hurt in domestic dispute with fiancee has died
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry has died, one day after suffering serious injuries upon falling out of the back of a pickup truck in what authorities describe as a domestic dispute with his fiancee. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said Henry died at 6:36 a.m. Thursday. Henry was 26. Henry was rushed to the hospital [...]
Obituaries for Dec. 17, 2009
Adear Lorraine Whitfield Nancy Ann Warner Richard A. Tarry Joan Sophronia Hawley Neil F. Jalowiec Edward Allen Drake, Jr. John J. Csubak, Sr. Tommie Lee Jackson, Sr. Read the full obituaries on The Chronicle E-edition at: http://www.chroniclet.com/ChroniclEdition/
Ohio House passes bill banning junk food in schools
COLUMBUS — Junk food wouldn’t make the grade for Ohio schools under a bill that has passed the Ohio House. Lawmakers voted Wednesday to restrict schools from offering students high-calorie snacks and drinks in vending machines or school stores. Food items sold to students would have to meet nutritional guidelines, such as having no trans [...]