Archive for June, 2011
BLOTTER: June 24, 2011
Lorain police Sunday, June 19 2:30 a.m. – 1804 E. 28th St., man taken to Mercy Regional Medical Center in Lorain after he said he was badly beaten outside of bar, but could not give police details on who beat him. 1:48 p.m. – 1800 block Reeves Ave., car battery removed from car and placed [...]
Exchange student auditions from afar for cheer squad
HENRIETTA TWP. — In Hollywood, a bad performance is sometimes said to be phoned in. But what do you call one that comes courtesy of YouTube from halfway around the world? The label “quite good” is applicable, according to Brittany Goodwin, cheerleading adviser for Firelands High School, who was impressed enough with a video cheerleading [...]
Cavs surprise nobody by taking Irving at No. 1, surprise most with Thompson at No. 4
INDEPENDENCE – Even the first pick in Thursday’s NBA Draft was a surprise – at least to the young man involved. “I didn’t know I was going to be a Cleveland Cavalier until (commissioner) David Stern called my name,” Duke point guard Kyrie Irving said in a conference call. Then came a real surprise, at [...]
Dulik: Kyrie Irving was the only way the Cavs could go at No. 1
There was only one true impact player in the NBA Draft – and he is now a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers. By making Duke point guard Kyrie Irving the No. 1 overall selection Thursday, Cleveland guaranteed that its 2011 draft was a great one. Forget about the big-time reach the Cavaliers made at No. [...]
Hannah Ruth Butcher
Hannah Ruth Butcher, 90, of Fort Pierce, Florida, passed away Wednesday, June 22, 2011, at the Avon Oaks Nursing Home in Avon. She was born April 24, 1921 in Buckhannon, West Virginia, a daughter of the late Ira B. and Bessie B. Foster Tomblyn. Prior to moving to Florida, Hannah lived in Elyria, where her [...]
Minnie L. Davis
Minnie L. Davis, 67, of LaGrange, passed away Wednesday, June 22, 2011 in Keystone Pointe Nursing Home in LaGrange, after a long illness. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the Blackburn-Duke Funeral Home, 1021 Main St., Grafton.
Avon’s Titsworth wins Cleveland Junior Open by 14 strokes
AVON – Last summer, the 54th and final hole spelled disaster for Beau Titsworth, who until then had been leading the Cleveland Junior Open. He faltered there and wound up in a second-place tie at Red Tail Golf Club, his home course. This year, no problem. This year, Titsworth’s performance on the 54th hole didn’t [...]
William N. Taylor
William N. Taylor, 87, retired dentist, of Norwalk, passed away peacefully early Wednesday morning, June 22, 2011, at The Cleveland Clinic, after a brief illness. He recently had been a resident of the Ohio Veterans Home in Sandusky. He was born April 18, 1924 in Findlay, to the late Zeller B. and Florence (Hutchinson) Taylor. [...]
Elyrian Brick leading senior division at Northeast Ohio Amateur
ELYRIA – When Norton Brick is looking to burn a few calories, plastic braces and velcro keep his trick back in place. Put the Elyria resident on a golf course, however, and the 58-year-old is pure mettle. Brick battled the weather and his ailing back Thursday and carries the senior division lead of the 81st [...]
Vermilion’s Madi Virgin signs Division I volleyball scholarship at St. Francis
VERMILION – Vermilion senior Madi Virgin expected to go to college at Division III Findlay the next four years and attempt to walk on to the school’s volleyball team. But thanks to an unlikely last-second turn of events, Virgin wound up with a Division I volleyball scholarship to St. Francis of Pennsylvania, which she signed [...]
Beach Bums 4, Crushers 1: Wendzicki loses in pro debut
AVON – Maybe the Crushers scored too many runs the day before. Or perhaps Traverse City pitcher Bryan Banes (4-0) simply has Lake Erie’s number. Either way, the season-high 15-run output the Crushers put forth in the opener of their three-game set with the Beach Bums seemed like a distant memory Thursday night in a [...]
Slovak princess Kaitlyn Knick is Lorain International Festival queen
LORAIN — A pair of second-year princesses — and best friends to boot — took home top honors at tonight’s Lorain International Festival princess pageant. Slovak princess Kaitlyn Knick will reign over this weekend’s festival as queen, not to mention lead the effort to represent Lorain for the next year at festivals around the state. [...]
Suspected park vandals arrested
LORAIN — Suspected vandals accused of writing lewd comments with a permanent marker in Lakeview and Veterans parks about a 14-year-old girl in addition to anti-gay, misogynistic and racist comments, have been arrested. A 14-year-old boy, who allegedly confessed to the girl about the graffiti, has been arrested and charged with criminal mischief and menacing [...]
Lorain High graduates holding unofficial reunion at International Fest
Graduates of Lorain High School plan to hold an unofficial reunion this Saturday at the Lorain International Festival. Kathy Wenzel Jameson, who organized the event on Facebook, asks graduates to meet at the beer tent starting at 4 p.m. Jameson says there are few other details other than that graduates are encouraged to bring yearbooks. [...]
Ohio vet’s flagpole sparks fight with development
MACEDONIA, Ohio (AP) — A retired Army lieutenant colonel is in a skirmish with his Ohio homeowners’ association over the 14-foot flagpole he installed in his front yard. Other veterans are siding with 77-year-old Fred Quigley, who served in Vietnam. An American Legion post held a flag-raising ceremony Wednesday night at Quigley’s home in Macedonia, [...]
Lorain superintendent one of two considered by Atlanta Schools
Lorain Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson is now one of two finalists for the Atlanta Schools’ superintendent job after a third finalist dropped out of the running. Barbara M. Jenkins, an Atlanta native and deputy superintendent of schools in Orange County, Fla., removed herself from consideration earlier in the week, said Atlanta Schools Spokesman Keith Bromery. No [...]
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Lorain International Queen Terra Soto prepares to hand over her crown
LORAIN — Lorain International Queen Terra Soto will hand over her crown tonight, but she’s not quite sure she’s ready. “It’s definitely bittersweet, probably a little bit more bitter than sweet,” she said. “I’ve just had so much fun. I’m going to miss traveling, I’m going to miss being with the girls, basically every weekend. [...]
Critter Chronicles: Baby Lynn and Miss Titan
BABY LYNN Baby Lynn was surrendered by a doting female owner who moved and could not keep her. She has learned to get along with other dogs at the shelter but hopes to find another one to give her undivided attention and a sense of security. Baby will make an affectionate companion for someone lucky. [...]
Community holds candlelight vigil in support of Tomasheski family
GRAFTON — The June 11 accident that claimed the lives of two people and left two others injured is the kind of heartbreaking tragedy that brings a community together. A candlelight vigil held in the traffic circle in front of Midview North Elementary on Wednesday night was that moment of harmony for roughly 75 people [...]
Dad says dogs menaced him and daughter in Elyria
ELYRIA — When the pit bull and German shepherd charged toward his 2-year-old daughter April as he pushed her stroller in the 800 block of West River Road North around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Daniel Hussell moved fast. Hussell said he grabbed the stroller and April in a bear hug and began to run across the [...]
Commissioners’ deal to voters: OK sales tax hike for property tax cut
ELYRIA — The Lorain County commissioners are considering cutting a deal with voters — pass a sales tax increase, and they’ll agree to lower property taxes. Under the proposal, the commissioners would put a 0.5 percent sales tax increase on the November ballot and, if voters approved it, the commissioners would reduce or eliminate property [...]
ACLU blasts Kasich prison sale plan
ELYRIA — Ohio’s first experience with private prisons in the 1990s in Youngstown was terrible, and history is repeating itself with Gov. John Kasich’s plan to sell off several prisons and juvenile facilities, according to a representative of the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio. “Almost every state had a golden example of why privatization [...]
Current school site chosen, planning comes next for new Lorain High
LORAIN — Now for the hard part. With Wednesday’s unanimous approval of paperwork to the state, school board members confirmed where the new high school will be. Now they have to decide what the school — to be on the site of the current Lorain High School at 2600 Ashland Ave. — will look like. [...]
ROUNDUP: June 23, 2011
Convicted killer’s request shot down ELYRIA — A county judge has rejected convicted killer Neil Simpson’s request that the charges against him be thrown out because his case took too long to go to trial. Simpson, who is serving a life prison sentence, argued in court documents filed without an attorney that prosecutors and his [...]