Archive for October, 2010
Start strong: OSU at No. 4 in first AP poll
Defending national champion Duke was a runaway No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason Top 25 men’s basketball poll. At the other end of the Top 25 there was big news Thursday with San Diego State entering the rankings for the first time ever. Duke, on top for a seventh time, has two starters returning [...]
High school football Week 10: Joppeck rock solid for Pirates
Matt Joppeck has been a rock for the Black River football team for three years, so it was kind of strange to see him hauling around a 20-pound boulder in early September. Normally sure-handed, the senior running back coughed up the ball twice at key moments in Black River’s 18-15 Week 2 loss to Northwestern. [...]
Election 2010: Lorain Schools’ stumping incentive for teachers nixed
LORAIN — Officials of Lorain Schools have retracted an offer to teachers to leave two hours early on a work day if they spend two hours working on the district’s levy campaign on Election Day, when students won’t be in class and most teachers will be off. Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson and board attorney Anthony Giardini [...]
High school football playoffs: Comets, Shoremen have lot on line
There are conference titles and playoff berths on the line tonight in Week 10 of the high school football season, but locally no teams seem to have more at stake than Avon Lake and Amherst. The Shoremen (7-2, 5-1) and the Comets (8-1, 5-1) are tied for the top spot in the Southwestern Conference along [...]
Election 2010: Polls’ impact questioned in Ohio governor’s race
WASHINGTON — When a widely publicized poll showed Republican John Kasich with a commanding, 10-point advantage in Ohio’s governor’s race, aides to Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland fought back hard. “With just two weeks until Election Day, it is our opinion that the Quinnipiac polls are irresponsible, inaccurate and completely removed from the reality of the [...]
Election 2010: State rep calls attack mailings illegal
ELYRIA — State Rep. Matt Lundy and the Ohio House Democratic Caucus say Lundy is the unfair target of illegal attack mailings because they don’t identify who is paying for them. “In this line of work you get used to being attacked, but it’s important to voters to know who’s making the allegation,” said Lundy, [...]
Election 2010: Callers seeking absentee voting info, residents report
Area voters are being warned about phone calls from unidentified individuals soliciting information about absentee ballots. Nick Brusky, a former Amherst councilman and current legislative aide to state Rep. Terry Boose, R-Norwalk, said their office received about a half-dozen calls from voters in Lorain and Huron counties this week who reported being called by people [...]
Alyson Sweany accuses Crum family of fraud
AMHERST — The mother of Jesse Crum Jr., the 3-year-old boy who died earlier this year from severe head injuries, has asked Amherst police to investigate whether the family of the boy’s father committed fraud with their fundraising efforts. Amherst police Sgt. Dan Jasinski said Thursday that Alyson Sweany filed a police report on Tuesday [...]
LORCO hearing pushed back
ELYRIA — A hearing on the feud between Elyria and the Lorain County Rural Wastewater District that had been scheduled to continue Thursday was postponed until next week while the two sides try to reach a settlement. LORCO, the city of Avon Lake and the Avon Lake Board of Municipal Utilities sued Elyria earlier this [...]
Boys soccer: Westlake heads to regionals
AVON LAKE — Thursday night’s soccer game between Southwestern Conference rivals Westlake and Avon Lake would have been a compelling matchup even if nothing was on the line. As it was, the Division I District title that was up for the grabs only added to the storyline as the teams battled not only each other [...]
Helen Jean Metz
Helen Jean Metz, 69, of Holiday, Florida, formerly of Grafton, passed away Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at the Life Care Center of New Port Richey, Florida. She enjoyed spending time with her family and traveling. She is survived by her children, Pamela Miller (Phil) of Litchfield, Timothy (Debbie) of Holiday, Florida, Robin Szczepanski (Joel) of [...]
Viola Jackson
Viola Jackson (nee Fugate), 76, of Elyria, died Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at Center Ridge Health Campus in North Ridgeville under the care of Holy Family Hospice, following a short illness. Mrs. Jackson was born in Spring City, Tennessee on November 3, 1933 and lived in Spring City and Elyria all of her life. She [...]
Terry A. Mann
Terry A. Mann, 64, of Elyria, died Wednesday, October 27, 2010, at Fairview Hospital, following a brief illness. He was born September 12, 1946 in Beckley, West Virginia and was an Elyria resident for most of his life. Terry worked as a pipe fitter at U.S. Kobe Steel in Lorain for 34 years, retiring in [...]
Rosemary Dunn
Rosemary Dunn (nee Smith), 86, of Elyria, passed away Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at her home. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Busch Funeral Home, Elyria. www.buschfuneral.com.
Katherine Irene Keirns Saddler
Katherine Irene Keirns Saddler, 95, was born January 22, 1915 and went home to be with the Lord Friday, October 22, 2010. Katherine had been a resident of Elyria for the past 60 years and was a resident of AbbeWood Senior Living Community for the past 10. She was born in Athens, Ohio to Dayton [...]
Minnie Marie Wise
Minnie Marie Wise (nee Jefferies), 82, of South Amherst, passed away Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at her son’s home in Elyria, following a one-year illness. She was born January 10, 1928 in Rice Landing, Pennsylvania. She moved to Ohio in 1957, living in Amherst for 20 years, Wellington for six years and finally, South Amherst [...]
David J. Borthwick
David J. “Jim” Borthwick, 85, of Elyria, died Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at Wesleyan Village in Elyria, after a lengthy illness. He was born June 21, 1925 in Lorain and had resided in Elyria for the past 13 years. Jim attended Lorain High School and joined the Merchant Marines. He worked as a machinist at [...]
Beulah Mae Todd
Beulah Mae Todd, 55, of Lorain, went home to be with the Lord Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, following a lengthy illness. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Wyers Funeral Chapel of Sheffield Township.
Sara Ellen Miller
Sara Ellen (nee Lindsay) Miller, 65, of Sullivan, died Tuesday, October 26, 2010. She was born July 27, 1945 to the late James and Geraldine Lindsay. Sara lived in the Collins area for many years and resided in Sullivan for the past 10 years. She was a 1963 graduate of Plymouth High School. Sara worked [...]
Ohio Supreme Court to hear Head Start case appeal
The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear appeals from prosecutors over Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge’s decision to acquit Nancy Smith and Joseph Allen last year in the controversial Head Start child molestation case. But the state’s high court then suspended any activity in the case while it deals with a [...]
Avon police officer doing much better: Soto in fair condition
Avon police officer Pete Soto, who was hurt in an on-duty motorcycle crash Oct. 12, has made significant improvement at a Cleveland hospital. Soto is listed in fair condition this morning, according to a spokeswoman at MetroHealth Medical Center. He had previously been in critical condition, the most precarious of the hospital’s four-tiered condition ranking [...]
Which was better: Cavs win or Heat loss?
Let’s call it a two-day moment of closure. The biggest debate in Cleveland this morning could be what the fans enjoyed watching more — Boston turning away LeBron James and the Miami Heat on Tuesday night or the Cavaliers downing the same Celtics team one night later? It’s probably a coin flip. The two games [...]
Cavaliers 95, Celtics 87: No stars necessary, Cavs manage win
CLEVELAND — It was just one win, but to the Cavaliers it was so much more. With two-time league MVP LeBron James and longtime center Zydrunas Ilgauskas with the Miami Heat in Philadelphia, Shaquille O’Neal now taking up space for the opponent and Delonte West wearing an ankle bracelet somewhere while serving a league-mandated suspension, [...]
Girls district soccer: Freshmen lead way as Westlake moves on
ROCKY RIVER — Most teams rely on their veteran players to take over the game come tournament time. Westlake isn’t most teams. The Demons’ fantastic freshman combo of Megan Konrad and Lauren Hurst teamed up to score the only goal of the game Wednesday as Westlake defeated Magnificat 1-0 in a Division I district semifinal [...]
Browns’ starting QB job a mystery again
BEREA — A) Stick with rookie Colt McCoy. He’s played with composure beyond his years in his first two starts. B) Go back to Seneca Wallace. He got better in each of his four starts, hopes to practice next week as his high ankle sprain recovers and possibly play Nov. 7 against the Patriots following [...]