Archive for March, 2010
At least 14 employers will be at job fair next week
LORAIN — Those who show up for next week’s job fair at Goodwill Industries of Lorain County could emerge with a job — or a leg up for one — in area restaurants, lawn care, home health and a ballpark. Some 14 employers ranging from locally owned businesses to international corporations will be represented at [...]
Ohio crossover voters must pledge to new party
COLUMBUS — Some county elections boards say absentee ballot mailings for Ohio’s May primary may be delayed a day or two because of a new directive regarding voters who switch parties. On Friday, the state’s top elections official told her local counterparts to have such crossover voters sign a form stating they support their new [...]
4 area students receive Elks scholarships
ELYRIA — The Elks Lodge gave away $3,500 in college scholarships Saturday night to four area students. Midview High School senior Sarah Linn received $500; Sarah Andrews, a senior at Oberlin High School, received $1,000; Spencer Davis, a senior at Open Door Christian, received $1,000; and Wellington High School senior Benjamin Bogan received $1,000. Elks [...]
UPDATE: EFD will rehire 16 laid off firefighters, hire 7 new, chief says
The Elyria Fire Department has been awarded a two-year, $3.7 million grant from the federal government to pay the wages and benefits of firefighters. The Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant will be used to bring back the 16 firefighters the city laid in 2009 and hire 7 additional firefighters. The department [...]
Rapper arrested during Cleveland show
CLEVELAND — A rap artist from the group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony has been arrested during an Ohio concert on 12-year-old charges that he roughed up his mother with a gun. Thirty-six-year-old Stanley Howse — whose stage name is Flesh-N-Bone — was in jail today, a day after he was taken into custody during a show in [...]
Woman: Husband collected guns but never intended to hurt anyone
SANDUSKY — The wife of an Ohio man accused of conspiring to kill police officers with a Christian militia group says her husband was an avid gun collector who never intended to hurt anyone. Twenty-nine-year-old Kelly Sickles sobbed inside her mobile home Monday as she told The Associated Press that her husband, Kristopher Sickles of [...]
Ohio gets biggest cut of housing funding, $172 million
The Obama administration today unveiled $600 million in financial aid for five more states with high unemployment that have been slammed by the housing bust. The funding is for North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina and Rhode Island. It comes on top of the $1.5 billion in funding announced last month by the Obama administration [...]
Militia plot update: Court documents reveal names of 2 Ohio men arrested
DETROIT — Nine suspects tied to a Midwest Christian militia that was preparing for the Antichrist were charged with conspiring to kill police officers, then attack a funeral using homemade bombs in the hopes of killing more law enforcement personnel, federal prosecutors said this morning. The Michigan-based group, called Hutaree, planned to use the attack [...]
Officials hope to jump start wind projects on Lake Erie
CLEVELAND — Ohio officials are pushing plans to get Lake Erie, the shallowest of the Great Lakes, at the forefront of offshore wind power development. Gov. Ted Strickland and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown joined industry and education leaders today in Cleveland and outlined tax-cut and regulatory measures to jump-start wind projects. Strickland says a tax [...]
Obituaries for March 29, 2010
David A. Lojek Frances N. Walter George Eaton Kruger Larry Eugene Samples Robert W. Fletcher Stanley F. Kufel Read the full obituaries on The Chronicle E-edition at: http://www.chroniclet.com/ChroniclEdition/
NCAA Tournament: Familiar feel to Final Four
ST. LOUIS — The players come and go, the years pass. About the only thing that doesn’t change is Tom Izzo and Michigan State’s mastery in March. The fifth-seeded Spartans are on their way to their second straight Final Four and sixth in 12 years after Raymar Morgan’s free throw with less than two seconds [...]
Cavaliers 97, Kings 90: Cavz, fanz show Z their love
CLEVELAND — Zydrunas Ilgauskas won’t ever forget it, but he’s also glad it’s over. The 34-year-old was nervous, emotional and grateful Sunday afternoon in his first game back at Quicken Loans Arena, where the Cavaliers did just enough to beat the extremely shorthanded and not very good Sacramento Kings, 97-90. “I haven’t been nervous before [...]
Z has given city plenty to embrace
CLEVELAND — The lovefest was long and well-deserved Sunday afternoon. The Quicken Loans Arena faithful were provided ample opportunities to cheer for the 7-foot-3 man who has become the heart and soul of Cleveland’s basketball franchise, and Cavaliers center Zydrunas Ilgauskas shyly soaked in the adoration. Ilgauskas, who has played all 763 games of his [...]
Gene Legeza classic: West rolls up 105 points in win
OBERLIN — The West scored 105 points Sunday night in their blowout win over the East. Not bad for a team that didn’t even get in a practice before taking the court in the 2010 Gene Legeza Classic Senior Boys All-Star game at Oberlin College. “I thought the kids played extremely well for not practicing,” [...]
Vermilion’s Nick Farley is Lorain County Mr. Basketball
OBERLIN — Two times to the “Sweet 16” and two other trips to the district semifinals marked the career of Vermilion’s Nick Farley. Now he can add Lorain County’s Mr. Basketball to his resume. The four-time letterwinner for the Sailors was awarded the 2010 Mr. Basketball Award by WEOL’s Tim Alcorn at Sunday night’s annual [...]
A gentleman and a winner: Veteran Firelands coach Jim Solomon dies
Jim Solomon, who touched the lives of Firelands students, athletes and their families for two generations, died at his home in the Birmingham area, his wife Karen reported Sunday. He was 66. Karen Solomon said she found her husband’s body in bed Sunday morning. She said he had not been ill and that his death [...]
Photo gallery: Keelhaulers open paddling season
The Keelhaulers Canoe Club held their 42nd annual race on the Vermilion River yesterday under leaden skies and rain. CT photos by Chuck Humel.
Carrying their cross: Parishioners celebrate move to Our Lady Queen of Peace
GRAFTON — About 200 people followed or helped carry a 150-pound cross through the village Sunday from Assumption Church to Our Lady Queen of Peace as parishioners celebrated not only Palm Sunday, but their new church as well. While Assumption and Immaculate Conception churches officially merged in October 2006 — a few years before the [...]
Police log for March 29, 2010
Elyria police Saturday, March 27 9:04 a.m. – less than 100 block Tattersal Court, a woman told police she heard gunfire around 4 a.m. and found a spent bullet on her couch Saturday morning, according to a police report. It appears the bullet came from the direction of West River Road North through her window [...]
Basketball pro wants to bring after-school clinic to Lorain
LORAIN — A former professional basketball player is proposing an after-school sports program in Lorain targeting kids who need extra help to stay on the straight and narrow. Rodney Lemons, a Beachwood native who played for the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga and the Lincolnshire Wildcats in England, asked 100 Men of Lorain County for the group’s [...]
15 Minutes: Egg decorator Jan Eshelman
Jan Eshelman Age: 67 Lives: Wakeman What first inspired you to decorate eggs? My mother Leona Eshelman — she’s 91 — saw it first. She had gone to Pennsylvania to see relatives and there happened to be an egg show at the Sheraton airport hotel. They had no idea what it was, but she went [...]
Fundraiser listings for March 29, 2010
Food Lake perch fish fry, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at the VOL Clubhouse, 3780 Edgewater, Vermilion. Cost is $10 for a perch sandwich, $13 per dinner or two dinners for $25. Choice of dinner platter, perch, shrimp, chicken or combo. Platter includes coleslaw, french fries, roll, butter, coffee and dessert. BYOB. Pop and wash [...]
‘Z’ makes triumphant return to ‘Q’
CLEVELAND – Zydrunas Ilgauskas won’t ever forget it, but he’s also glad it’s over. The 34-year-old was nervous, emotional and grateful Sunday afternoon in his first game back at Quicken Loans Arena, where the Cavaliers did just enough to beat the extremely shorthanded and not very good Sacramento Kings, 97-90. “I haven’t been nervous before [...]
Butler crashes Final Four, beats Kansas State to make major mid-major statement
SALT LAKE CITY – Every day they walk into practice, they also walk onto a movie set – the one where they filmed the story about the little team that gets its big chance and lives out the unthinkable dream. That’s the story of “Hoosiers.” That’s also the story of Butler – the team that’s [...]
West Virginia sends Kentucky packing
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Country road, take me home. Or better yet, Indianapolis. It’s almost heaven, West Virginia. Da’Sean Butler and the Mountaineers are off to the Final Four for the first time since 1959. Joe Mazzulla scored a career-high 17 points in his first start this season and West Virginia handled a cold-shooting Kentucky team [...]