Archive for January, 2011
Girls Basketball: North Ridgeville shoots past Firelands
HENRIETTA TWP. – It was close all the way and, in fact, the North Ridgeville and Firelands girls were tied going into the final eight minutes. Then Ridgeville’s outside sharpshooters, Ashley Montgomery and Hailey Schroeder, started draining 3-point baskets. Each nailed two of them in the first four minutes of the fourth quarter, providing the [...]
Sylvia Jean Drake
Sylvia Jean Drake (nee Grimm), 72, of Elyria, went home to be with the Lord Friday, January 14, 2011 at EMH Regional Medical Center, following a long illness. She was born April 15, 1938 in Phillipi, West Virginia. Sylvia had worked as a STNA at Elyria Methodist Home for many years. She treasured spending time [...]
Billy R. “Bud” Hall
Billy R. “Bud” Hall, 56, of Elyria, died Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at EMH Regional Medical Center, following a sudden illness. He was born June 16, 1954 in Virgie, Kentucky, and was an Elyria resident for most of his life. Bud worked as a leadman at the former General Industries Corp. in Elyria for 23 [...]
Edward Allen “Bo” Tarrant
Edward Allen “Bo” Tarrant, 43, departed this life Monday, January 10, 2011, following a short illness. He was a lifelong resident of the Elyria/Lorain area. He attended the Lorain City Schools. He was employed at Poppy Popcorn. He enjoyed spending time with family and friends, and was a dedicated fan of Ohio State and the [...]
Bradie Alice Peters
Bradie Alice Peters, 84, of Litchfield, passed away Friday, January 14, 2011 in Sheffield Lake. She was born July 10, 1926 in Edwight, West Virginia, to the late Hinton and Matildia Pettry. Bradie was proud that she was the first female school bus driver for the Medina City School System, beginning in the late 1960′s. [...]
Judy Nancy Hlas
Judy Nancy Hlas, 64, of Grafton, passed away Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at home, after a brief illness. She was born July 19, 1946 in Cleveland, living in Grafton Township for 30 years. She was employed by Drug Mart in Brunswick for 19 years, and enjoyed caring for her family home. She was a member of [...]
Natalie A. Mahl
Natalie A. Mahl, 69, of North Ridgeville, passed away Friday, January 14, 2011 at EMH Regional Medical Center, Elyria, following a short illness. Funeral arrangements will be announced by David Bogner Family Funeral Home, 36625 Center Ridge Road, North Ridgeville.
John C. Linville
John C. Linville, 85, passed away Wednesday, January 12, 2011. He was a 1943 graduate of Elyria High School. He was the beloved husband of Elizabeth “Betsy”; loving father of Scott (Jane), Carol (Greg) Podeszwa, David (Patricia) and Anne (Jeffrey) Ellington; dear grandfather of Christopher and Ryan Linville and Kaitlyn, Samuel and Andrea Ellington; brother [...]
Judith A. Dittemore
Judith A. “Jean” Dittemore, 72, of Elyria, died Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at EMH Regional Medical Center. She was born December 26, 1938 in Akron, to the late Colvin and Sarah Dittemore. Jean attended special classes for four years in Akron and was then tutored at home by her loving mother. She lived at Apple [...]
Frances R. Reinhardt
Frances R. Reinhardt (nee Vaisicca), 79, of Lorain, passed away Friday, January 14, 2011, at Mercy Hospital in Lorain, after a long illness. Frances was born February 14, 1931 in Detroit, Michigan. She lived in Elyria most of her life. She was a graduate of Elyria High School and attended St. Mary’s Church in Elyria. [...]
Raymond T. Kohler
Raymond T. Kohler, of Vermilion, passed away Monday, January 3, 2011 at the age of 68, from injuries sustained while bicycling in Lakeland, Florida. Memorial services will be Monday, January 17, 2011 at 5 P.M. in the Gluvna-Shimo-Hromada Funeral Chapel, 3224 Broadway Ave., Lorain. Reverend Mr. John Slatcoff, Permanent Deacon representing St. Vincent de Paul [...]
Documents reveal story behind charges against Amherst man
An Amherst man was arrested at his home Friday morning on charges that he carried out a hit on a police informant in 2003. Michael “Cleveland Mike” Duncan, 34, is charged with one count each of criminal homicide and criminal conspiracy, according to Pennsylvania court documents. Duncan is accused of shooting John Newman, 45, once [...]
Invacare gets spot at med mart
CLEVELAND – Invacare Corp., an Elyria-based manufacturer of health care products, will lease a permanent space in the under-construction Cleveland Medical Mart & Convention Center. Friday marked the official groundbreaking of the $465 million project as well as the announcement of the partnership between Invacare and the medical mart. As of Friday, 57 health care [...]
Judge Betleski recuses self from Chapman case
ELYRIA – Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Mark Betleski on Friday removed himself from the case of convicted killer Justin Chapman. Kenneth Lieux, Chapman’s lawyer, had asked the judge to take himself off the case in the wake of a 9th District Court of Appeals decision that said it appeared Betleski had punished Chapman with [...]
Ex-cop reports encounter with angry man he arrested
LORAIN – A former Lorain police officer said a man he arrested years ago threatened revenge outside the Grove Avenue Dairy Mart on Thursday afternoon. Corey Earl, who took a disability retirement from the Police Department in 2009 after he suffered a series of strokes, told police he was walking out of Dairy Mart and [...]
Agency looking at sewer lines
A study could soon be commissioned to determine if the current sewer boundary lines surrounding Avon, North Ridgeville and Sheffield should be changed. The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency is working with the three local communities to determine the scope of the study, who will pay for it and when it should be completed. The [...]
Police: Wife hits husband with gun
SHEFFIELD – A Vermilion woman allegedly attempted to shoot her husband after he confronted her in another man’s home, but she resorted to beating him with it when she couldn’t figure out how to release the gun’s safety, police said. Her husband, 46-year-old Ronald Wallace, entered the Abbe Road home of a man his wife [...]
Warrant issued for courts clerk
ELYRIA – An arrest warrant has been issued for a deputy clerk in the civil division of Lorain County Clerk of Courts Ron Nabakowski’s office. The warrant for Carol Lynette Olejko, 35, was issued Tuesday after she failed to make an appearance in Elyria Municipal Court on a passing bad checks charge, according to court [...]
Shared vision put in place: Browns new coach Pat Shurmur, front office have same goals, philosophies
BEREA – Jennifer Shurmur said her husband, Pat, started talking about becoming a head coach when he got his first full-time coaching job at Michigan State in 1990. Two decades later, the dream turned into a packed-media-room reality as Shurmur was introduced Friday as the 13th full-time coach in Browns history. “Truthfully, I think the [...]
Boys basketball: Avon Lake’s Ronnie Willoughby scores school-record 46 points in win over Olmsted Falls
OLMSTED FALLS – Avon Lake senior Ronnie Willoughby already has mastered an art form with which so many people his senior struggle: gift giving. Willoughby told his mother, who turned 40 on Friday, he’d score 25 points for her against Olmsted Falls – and nearly had it by halftime. He scored an Avon Lake-record 46 [...]
Boys basketball: Clearview refuses to go away, fights back to beat Keystone
SHEFFIELD TWP. – Keystone managed to let Clearview stay in Friday night’s Patriot Athletic Conference crossover game a bit too long and the Clippers eventually took it away. Clearview never had the lead until Mark Andrews hit his only shot of the night with just 48 seconds left, but it never gave it back in [...]
Boys basketball: Elyria pushes Medina, but ends up taking the fall
MEDINA – Good teams can sleepwalk and get away with it in some games. In others, they need waking up. On Friday, all the Medina boys basketball team needed was a couple punches in the mouth, figuratively speaking, from Elyria. Every second of the Northeast Ohio Conference Valley Division game, the Pioneers scratched and clawed [...]
High school wrestling: Elyria seniors lead way on their big night
ELYRIA TWP. – It was senior Myles Wright’s final time on the mat during a home wrestling meet for Elyria on Friday night. The 145-pounder surely wanted to savor those last matches for future reminiscing, but he won’t have too many memories to shuffle through. Wright pinned both of his opponents in under a minute [...]
Jazz has fun at Cavaliers’ expense
SALT LAKE CITY – The Utah Jazz have had bigger wins this season. They’ve had more lopsided ones, too. But maybe none were more fun than Friday night’s 121-99 victory over the hapless Cleveland Cavaliers. Start with the consecutive behind-the-back passes by Earl Watson and Andrei Kirilenko that led to Ronnie Price’s easy layup in [...]
Amherst man waives extradition, will be sent to Pa. to face charges in ’03 murder
An Amherst man is among three people charged today in connection with a 2003 murder in Pennsylvania. Michael Duncan, 34, was arrested today at his home without incident, according to Amherst police Lt. Joe Kucirek. State police in Pennsylvania tied Duncan and two others to the February 2003 slaying of 45-year-old John Lynn Newman in [...]