Archive for May, 2011
A new racket: Former Admiral King, B-W tennis standout now hooked on marathons
Running, anyone? Count Ryan McCartney in. The former Admiral King and Baldwin-Wallace tennis standout has a new love, shall we say. It’s called running marathons and he’ll put his passion into practice today for the second time at the 34th annual Cleveland Rite Aid Marathon. The 25-year-old Lorain native switched to running less than three [...]
Keith Robinson
Keith Robinson, beloved son of Jeanette (nee Smith), dear brother of Emery Robinson (Yolanda), Paul Robinson (Mary) and Kathy Nicholson, of Jeanette Pennsylvania, dear uncle and great-uncle. Family and friends are invited to a Memorial Mass Monday, May 16, 2011 at 10 A.M. at St. Teresa of Avila Church, 1878 Abbe Rd., Sheffield Village, [...]
Paul E. Goode
Paul E. Goode, 58, of North Ridgeville, passed away Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at his residence, following a lengthy illness. He was born October 23, 1952 in Berea and he was a life long resident of North Ridgeville. Mr. Goode was a 1972 graduate of North Ridgeville High School. He worked as an automobile technician [...]
Dale R. Frost, Sr.
Dale R. Frost, Sr., 75, of North Ridgeville, passed away Thursday, May 12, 2011 at his home, following a long illness. Born in Khedive, Pennsylvania, he was a resident of North Ridgeville for the past years. Dale worked as a machine operator at the General Motors Chevy Plant in Parma for 38 years, retiring in [...]
Peggy L. Mac Kay
Peggy L. Mac Kay (nee Martin), 41, of North Ridgeville, passed away Thursday, May 12, 2011. She was born March 4, 1970 in Elyria and had been a lifelong resident of North Ridgeville. She was a former office assistant at North Shore Insurance Company in Rocky River. Peggy was a member of St. Agnes Catholic [...]
Herbert Joshua Wolf
Herbert Joshua Wolf, 83, and a resident of Amherst, passed away Thursday, May 12, 2011 at Golden Acres Nursing Home in Amherst, following a lengthy illness. Born April 22, 1928 in Grafton, to his parents Earl and Laura Wolf, he was raised in West Virginia and then moved to Spencer, where he graduated from high [...]
Crowd-pleasing win: Hafner saves the day with two-out, two-run homer in the ninth
CLEVELAND – It was 2-for-1 fireworks night at Progressive Field on Friday – the scheduled postgame display and the ones the Indians produced in the ninth inning. Trailing by two runs and looking like they were about to limp to their sixth loss in nine games and their third straight at home, the Indians overcame [...]
Tribe notes: Sizemore not playing, but not headed to DL either, Acta says
CLEVELAND — Grady Sizemore was out of the lineup for the third straight game Friday with a bruised right knee, but the Indians still don’t think their center fielder is a candidate for the disabled list. “That’s not even crossing our minds,” said manager Manny Acta. “We’re not expecting that.” Sizemore was at Progressive Field [...]
Sectional baseball: Stepp helps Elyria Catholic take next step on tournament trail
BROOKLYN – It was played a day late, but Elyria Catholic’s performance in its Division III sectional semifinal was definitely not a dollar short. Junior pitcher Tyler Stepp earned his second win of the season with a complete-game four-hitter, while senior Scott Lamoreaux belted a home run that kick-started a difference-making four-run fourth inning, leading [...]
Sectional softball: Amherst rolls over North Ridgeville
AMHERST – Abby Rositano cranked the first walk-off home run of her four-year high school career as the Comets mercy-ruled North Ridgeville on Friday afternoon. Amherst (12-4) needed two runs for a 10-run lead in the home half of the fifth inning. Rositano’s blast was good for three in the Comets’ 12-1 Division I sectional-final [...]
High school track: Avon boys get KO’d by DQ at WSC meet
AVON – Rain was expected at the West Shore Conference championships Friday night. It never showed, but controversy reigned. That came courtesy of the disqualification of Avon’s Austin Fasciana in the boys 3,200-meter run that cost Avon the opportunity to repeat as league champions. Fasciana was disqualified for stepping on the lane line multiple times [...]
High school track: Avon Lake boys win first back-to-back SWC titles
WESTLAKE – Avon Lake boys have enjoyed a great run in the past decade, but Friday evening the Shoremen broke new ground. The Shoremen have won four league titles since 2000, but Friday they pulled off their first back-to-back titles at the Southwestern Conference Track and Field Championships. Avon Lake amassed 126 points to run [...]
Family, community members mourn slain former EC hoops star
LORAIN — Standing about 100 feet from where her cousin was shot, Stephanie Wilson pleaded with the community to stop its violent ways. “This goes on in Lorain every month,” she said. “You read about somebody, and it’s always somebody you know. It has to stop.” Wilson was at a vigil Friday evening for her [...]
Man pleads guilty to attempting to run down officers
ELYRIA — A 31-year-old Lorain man faces four to six years in prison after pleading guilty Friday to charges he tried to run down two North Ridgeville police officers with his car during a misdemeanor arrest at a car dealership. Jeff Phillips, who was shot three times during the incident in North Ridgeville on April [...]
Postal service food drive is today
Today’s the day to leave food for the needy by the mailbox. The National Association of Letter Carriers today will conduct its annual Stamp Out Hunger National Food Drive, the largest one-day food drive in the nation. To donate is simple: Simply place nonperishable food items in a bag and leave them by your mailbox. [...]
Schooling options eyed for Kovarbasich
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — Daniel Kovarbasich hasn’t attended school since he was 16 and he killed a man he said was sexually abusing him, but his attorney says he will be evaluated by the North Ridgeville Schools in hopes of getting his education back on track. Kovarbasich, now 17, is on house arrest pending his transfer [...]
BLOTTER: May 14, 2011
Elyria police Thursday, May 12 9:06 a.m. — 300 block Brandston Ave., wallet stolen from vehicle. 11:17 a.m. — 100 block Brace Ave., transmission stolen from trunk of vehicle. 3:39 p.m. — 1000 block Pasadena Ave., jewelry, iPod and $50 in change stolen. 4:36 p.m. — 1000 block Melvyn Lane, TV, laptop and Wii stolen [...]
Indians 5, Mariners 4: Hafner walk-off HR wins it for Tribe
Travis Hafner’s two-run walk-off home run in the ninth inning Friday lifted the Indians to an unlikely 5-4 victory over the Mariners at Progressive Field. Hafner’s homer capped a ninth-inning rally that saw Cleveland erase a two-run deficit. Indians starter Fausto Carmona took a no-hitter into the fifth inning but did not figure in the [...]
Pride Day is May 21, not Saturday
Despite what a headline in The Chronicle said on Thursday, Pride Day is not this Saturday. It is next Saturday, May 21. So if you were planning to join a group to do good deeds, hold off. Next week’s weather forecast probably will be better anyhow.
North Ridgeville man dies in crash
NORTH OLMSTED — Police are investigating an early morning crash that left a North Ridgeville man dead. According to a brief press release issued by North Olmsted Police, Vincent J. Skindell, 51, was pronounced dead at the scene following a head-on collision between two vehicles on a stretch of Stearns Road north of Lorain Road. [...]
5 Things You Need To Do When You Play At A Private Club
Playing at a private club can be pretty intimidating. Not only is the course likely much more difficult, but things tend to work much different there than your local muni track. I’ve had the luxury of playing at a handful of private clubs, and I’m going to give you some advice so you don’t make [...]
Thousands of dead walleye are being found in Lake Erie
TOLEDO — Wildlife researchers in northern Ohio want to know what’s killing thousands of walleye in Lake Erie. Many of the dead fish have been washing up on beaches between Toledo and Port Clinton in recent weeks. Ohio Department of Natural Resources biologist Roger Knight says it looks like the worst might be over. He [...]
Dayton woman convicted of microwaving baby to death
DAYTON — Jurors in an Ohio woman’s third trial have found her guilty of burning her baby daughter to death in a microwave oven. Thirty-one-year-old China Arnold was convicted of aggravated murder today in the death of 28-day-old Paris Talley in August 2005. Arnold could receive the death penalty. Her first trial ended in a [...]
Columbia Station man faces sex charges for touching sleeping woman
COLUMBIA STATION — A Columbia Station man is charged with sexual battery and sexual imposition after deputies say he admitted to inappropriately touching a woman who was sleeping on his couch. Adam Smetana, 24, of Columbia Station appeared in Elyria Municipal Court this morning but did not enter a plea on either count, according to [...]
Man out $3,500 after setting up bank account with stranger while intoxicated
ELYRIA — An Elyria man told police he is out thousands of dollars after he met a woman in a bar and let her assist him in setting up a bank account while he was intoxicated. The 64-year-old man said he received a disability check for $25,000 on May 4 and was drinking at Boomer’s [...]