Archive for May, 2011
Independent candidate may be out of race for Elyria mayor
SHEFFIELD TWP. — Tim Quinn, who is running for mayor of Elyria as an independent, voted in the city’s Democratic primary earlier this month, a move that could cost him his place on the November ballot. Lorain County Board of Elections Director Paul Adams said that according to the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office, independent [...]
Police log for May 19, 2011
Elyria police Saturday, May 14 2:08 p.m. – 200 block Glenwood St., 16-year-old boy charged with domestic violence. 2:37 p.m. – Walmart, 1000 Chestnut Commons Drive, Jessica Vassilaros, 24, North Ridgeville, charged with theft of NicoDerm CQ. Sunday, May 15 12:59 a.m. – 200 block Eighth St., John Mitchell Jr., 49, Oberlin, charged with domestic [...]
Former court worker on trial, accused of helping son, nephew sell drugs
ELYRIA — Prosecutors told jurors Wednesday that Olga Velez, who once worked at the Lorain County Justice Center, helped her son and a nephew in the sale of drugs and then safeguarded money from those transactions in her home. That assertion was part of opening arguments Wednesday in the trial of Velez, 61, a Sheffield [...]
Commencement at Oberlin College will remain on Memorial Day
OBERLIN — The Oberlin College General Faculty Committee on Wednesday tabled a controversial plan to change commencement, which traditionally has been on Memorial Day, to the Sunday before the holiday for the 2013-14 school year. Local clergy had been concerned that they would lose members of their flock or be forced to choose if commencement [...]
Gas station clerk robbed after giving customer a ride home
LORAIN — A convenience store cashier said he tried to do a customer a favor by giving the customer and another man a ride but ended up getting robbed at gunpoint. The clerk said he had finished his shift at the Liberty Gas at 2436 Broadway about 1 a.m. Tuesday, when the customer and a [...]
Elyria man jailed, accused of holding woman against her will
ELYRIA — A city man is due in court today after being accused of holding a woman against her will Wednesday. About a dozen police officers, some wielding shotguns, arrived at the Hampshire II apartment complex at 125 Berwick Court around 7 p.m. responding to a report of a woman being stabbed and held against [...]
Dorothy C. Barres
Dorothy C. Barres (nee White) 88, of Elyria, passed away Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at The Village of Willow Lane in Macungie, Pennsylvania. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by The Laubenthal Mercado Funeral Home of Elyria (440) 322-4626.
Betty L. Brown
Betty L. Brown, 81, of Wellington, passed away unexpectantly Wednesday morning, May 18, 2011 in her home. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the Blackburn- Duke Funeral Home, 1021 Main St., Grafton.
Margaret E. Capri
Margaret E. Capri (nee Palansky), 71, passed away following a long illness at her home in Elyria on Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Margaret was born in Harvey, Illinois, but lived most of her life in Northeast, Ohio. She and her husband Robert lived in Lakewood and Columbia Station before settling in Elyria for the last [...]
Patrick B. Frymier
Patrick B. Frymier, 79, went to be with his Lord and Savior Saturday, May 14, 2011 in Lorain. He was born September 21, 1931 in Tanner, West Virginia. He graduated from Glenville High School in 1949 and attended Glenville State College to become a math teacher. He entered the United States Army in 1952 and [...]
Dallas Gober
Dallas Gober, 92, of Pontotoc County, Mississippi and formerly from Lorain passed away Friday, May 13, 2011, in Selmer, Tennessee. He was the son of the late George Mitchell and Lennie Mae (nee McCullough) Gober. He was united in marriage to Jewell Black on May 23, 1975. Mr. Gober worked at Ford Motor Co. in [...]
Nancy Kathryne Heller
Nancy Kathryne Heller (nee Hukill), 81, of North Ridgeville, passed away unexpectedly Sunday, May 15, 2011 at University Hospital, Cleveland. She was born May 4, 1930 in Paris, Kentucky and had resided in North Ridgeville since 1967. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Education from the University of Kentucky and had served as English teacher [...]
Joyce A. Lambert
Joyce A. Lambert (nee Johnson), 59, of Columbia Station, passed away Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at EMH Health Care in Elyria following a long illness. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by The Laubenthal Mercado Funeral Home of Elyria (440) 322-4626.
Edward G. Wooley
Edward G. Wooley, 53, of Elyria passed away suddenly Wednesday, May 17, 2011 at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Edward was born September 22, 1957 in Elyria, where he has lived most of his life. He was a graduate of John F. Kennedy High School in Warren, Ohio in the class of 1976. He was employed [...]
Lola Marie Worley
Lola Marie Worley (nee New), 74, of Vermilion, passed away Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at her home, following a lengthy illness. She was born June 25, 1936 in McQuery County, Kentucky. At the age of 14, Lola came to South Amherst. She made her home in Lorain for 15 years before moving to Elyria where [...]
More than 100 weapons taken from Lorain home
LORAIN — A Lorain man was arrested after police took more than 100 weapons from his east side home, according to police. Jack Nott, 59, is charged with aggravated menacing. Police were called to his home at 3403 McKinley St. about 11 a.m. today after it was reported he was threatening his girlfriend, who lives [...]
Governor to sign bill restricting ‘pill mill’ pain clinics
COLUMBUS — Ohio Gov. John Kasich is ready to sign a bill into law to restrict drugs-on-demand pain management clinics criticized as pill mills. Lawmakers pushed the legislation in reaction to growing rates of prescription painkiller abuse and hundreds of overdose deaths annually. The legislation was approved by the Ohio House on Wednesday. The bill [...]
Parking change for this weekend’s Lorain Greek festival
LORAIN — Due to the rain, parking for this weekend’s spring Greek festival at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church will be at Church of the Northcoast on state Route 58. The festival, Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., will run a free shuttle from 4:30 to 10 p.m. both days. The festival [...]
Lorain High student says man pulled gun on him in school parking lot
LORAIN — A Lorain High School student had a gun pulled on him in the parking lot of the school Monday but didn’t report it to police until the next day, according to a police report. The victim, a 19-year-old, told police he was in the parking lot of the school, at 2600 Ashland Ave. [...]
Former Amherst Youth Football head indicted for theft
ELYRIA — The former leader of the Amherst Youth Football Association has been indicted on charges of theft and misuse of credit cards. A secret indictment unsealed today accuses Tyrone Price of committing the crimes between 2008 and 2010. Price, 37, of Lorain, was booked at the Lorain County Jail today. Read Thursday’s Chronicle for [...]
Crushers finalize 2011 roster
AVON — With opening day in the Frontier League set for Thursday, the Lake Erie Crushers made a few moves Monday and Tuesday to get their roster down to 24 players. The two most notable moves were placing shortstop Jodam Rivera and projected No. 3 starting pitcher Eric Gonzalez-Diaz on the suspended list. Both Rivera [...]
Tribe Manager Manny Acta an to coach all-star team
Cleveland’s Manny Acta and Toronto’s John Farrell will be coaches for Texas’ Ron Washington, the American League manager at the All-Star Game in Phoenix on July 12. Arizona’s Kirk Gibson and Washington’s Jim Riggleman will be coaches for San Francisco’s Bruce Bochy, Major League Baseball said Tuesday. Washington’s Rangers coaches will assist with batting practice: [...]
Ohio high schools say no to changes to playoff system
COLUMBUS — Ohio school administrators have narrowly voted down a referendum designed to level the postseason playing field between public and private schools in eight sports. The Ohio High School Athletic Association said Tuesday the measure fell by a margin of 332-303. “We believe this would have been a fairer way to assign schools in [...]
Governor says ‘whoa’ on new pink driver’s licenses
COLUMBUS — Gov. John Kasich isn’t tickled by the pinkish color of Ohio’s newer driver licenses. The governor said as an aside during a speech in Dayton today that he will eliminate what he called “the pink driver’s license.” The Columbus Dispatch reports his comment drew laughter. Afterward, Kasich told reporters his remark was “sort [...]
This year’s chilly May lands Ohio in the record books
WILMINGTON, Ohio — Ohio’s chilly mid-May has made the record books. The National Weather Service says Monday’s high temperature in Columbus of 49 degrees and Tuesday’s high of 51 were the coldest maximum temperatures ever seen on May 16 and 17 in the city. Tuesday’s cool weather in Columbus broke a record that had stood [...]