Archive for July, 2011
Helen J. Hardesty
Helen J. Hardesty, 83, of Wellington, formally of Coshocton, Ohio, passed away Thursday, July 14, 2011 at Elm Retirement Village in Wellington. She was born in Tunnel Hill, Coshocton County, April 28, 1928, the daughter of the late Stewart and Maudest (Easter) McCurdy. Helen graduated from Union High School in 1946. She worked as office [...]
Carol Lee Kaminski
Carol Lee Kaminski (nee Stump), 67, and a resident of Elyria, passed away Friday, July 15, 2011 at the Wesleyan Village in Elyria, following a brief illness. She was born August 17, 1943 in Spencer, West Virginia. As a teenager, Carol moved to Vermilion and then to Amherst where she had made her home for [...]
LCCC plans to add culinary and digital facilities
ELYRIA — By fall 2012, culinary students will be cooking up good things to eat — and other students will be learning how to film them — at the $11 million facility Culinary and Convergent Digital Arts facility planned for Lorain County Community College. The LCCC board Friday approved building contracts for the two-story structure [...]
Wellington celebrates cheesy heritage this weekend
WELLINGTON — Just in time for the annual Cheese Festival this weekend, downtown is sporting a new mural at the site of the former cheese warehouse owned by G.W. Crosier on North Main Street. The mural was planned by people associated with the Southern Lorain County Historical Society, and the artist was Rob Stevanus of [...]
ROUNDUP: July 16, 2011
Man: Dirt biker hit my dog on trail LORAIN — A Globe Avenue man said someone on a dirt bike swerved into his white American bulldog, breaking one of the canine’s teeth and leaving a tire mark on one of its legs. The man said he was walking his dog on a trail in a [...]
BLOTTER: July 16, 2011
Elyria police Wednesday, July 13 12:11 p.m. – 700 block Middle Ave., Walter Spooner, 36, 700 block Middle Ave., charged with criminal damaging for allegedly smashing the windshield and side window of city resident Kayla D. Williams’ van. Police said Spooner admitted to vandalizing the van and said he was unaware Williams had bought the [...]
Little League Softball: Elyria fights back, can win title with 2 wins today
ELYRIA — The revival has come to its final stage. Elyria’s Little League Majors softball All-Stars fought out of the losers bracket Friday, giving themselves the chance to win a state championship. For that to happen, they’ll have to fight through two layers of opportunity starting at noon today at Vic Janowicz Memorial Park. There, [...]
Indians: Bullpen saves the day in win over O’s
BALTIMORE (AP) – The bullpen gate kept swinging open, unleashing one outstanding pitcher after another. Collectively, Cleveland’s relievers shut the door on Baltimore’s bid to mount one final comeback. Asdrubal Cabrera and Grady Sizemore homered, Lonnie Chisenhall singled in the tiebreaking run in the sixth inning, and the Indians defeated Baltimore 6-5 Friday night to [...]
High School Football: Local coaches show strong support for Jim Tressel
Dick Kerschbaum considers deposed Ohio State coach Jim Tressel a friend of Ohio’s high school football coaches. And you don’t turn your back on a friend. Kerschbaum, Brookside’s coach and athletic director, also serves as secretary of the Ohio High School Football Coaches Association, which announced plans this week to honor Tressel by asking all [...]
Little League Baseball: East beats North for Seniors title
ELYRIA — The search was on for a hero as the sky darkened and East and North were tied at 11 going into the eighth inning of their Little League Seniors District 3 championship. That hero turned out to be Kevin Laing, who delivered a one-out, two-run single in the top of the eighth to [...]
Ohio State Football: Jim Tressel had poor history of reporting violations
COLUMBUS — Former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel was told by the school that he did a poor job of self-reporting NCAA violations years before he failed to tell his bosses that players were selling championship rings and other Buckeyes memorabilia, a cover-up that cost him his job. In an evaluation of Tressel’s job performance [...]
Little League Baseball: Elyria North Juniors fall in seventh
ELYRIA — It was a scorekeeper’s nightmare Friday night keeping up with the hits, stolen bases, runs and errors in Cuyahoga Falls South’s 23-10 win over Elyria North in the Juniors Little League (ages 13-14) winners’ bracket final at North Park. South will advance to the finals of the double-elimination district tournament at Cuyahoga Falls [...]
Sex charges against Ganley dropped
Criminal charges accusing car dealer and former Republican congressional candidate Tom Ganley of sexually assaulting a woman in 2009 have been dropped. In a statement released this afternoon, Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Blaise Thomas said the decision was made after further investigation into the allegations by the woman and talking with her. “This decision represents [...]
Farm store coming to old Value City location; plans to hire 45-50 people
CARLISLE TWP. — A store that sells a variety of farm supplies will open its 51st location in the former Value City building on Oberlin-Elyria Road in Carlisle Township. Rural King sells a “unique product mix with items such as livestock feed, farm equipment, agricultural parts, lawn mowers, outer wear and work wear, house wares [...]
Vermilion museum aids in discovery of new Great Lakes shipwreck
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — After 105 years, the three masts of the Queen of the Lakes still stand erect — all the more remarkable because the 19th-century Canadian schooner has sat in the dark depths of Lake Ontario since it wrecked in 1906. And a local museum deserves a part of the credit. “We think it [...]
Little League majors: Avon hangs on, gets another crack at Falls North
AVON — Yogi Berra’s immortal words came true once again as Tallmadge proved “It ain’t over till it’s over” Thursday night at Veterans Park. Trailing by 10 going into the last half of the final inning, Tallmadge scored seven runs and had the bases loaded before Avon’s Majors Little League team (ages 11-12) finally managed [...]
Cleveland zoo seeing a baby boom
CLEVELAND — Cleveland’s zoo is booming with babies, namely a newborn giraffe and two grizzly bear cubs. The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo has announced that its oldest female Masai giraffe, Lindi, gave birth Monday to a male calf, who has been named Trevor. The zoo said Thursday it’s keeping a close watch on Trevor, because he [...]
Crushers first-half review: Early hole, steep climb
AVON — The Lake Erie Crushers entered 2011 with high hopes, but had a rough first half. Just two seasons removed from a Frontier League championship in their inaugural season, the Crushers began 2011 with just one player returning from that team — third baseman Andrew Davis. That number has increased to three, but the [...]
Indians 8, Orioles 4: Tribe opens second half with easy win
BALTIMORE — The Cleveland Indians couldn’t have scripted a better start to the second half of the season. Asdrubal Cabrera and Carlos Santana homered in the first inning and the Indians beat Baltimore 8-4 on Thursday night to extend the Orioles’ losing streak to eight games. The victory moved the Indians into first place in [...]
Little League juniors: East stops West in backyard battle
ELYRIA — Match East against West in Elyria Little League tournament action at any level and you’re bound to have a drag-out battle from start to finish. Thursday’s losers bracket Juniors game was no exception, as East outlasted West 9-7 to stay alive in the district tournament. East will play at either Cuyahoga Falls South [...]
Little League softball majors: Elyria torches Conneaut
ELYRIA — After a frustrating one-run, four-hit loss to Canfield on Wednesday night, Elyria’s Little League Majors All-Stars came alive Thursday. The Elyrians torched three Conneaut pitchers for 14 runs and 13 hits to advance in the six-team state tournament for players 11 and 12 years old. And they got a no-hitter from Ashley Hyer [...]
Fans say good-bye to ‘Harry Potter’
SHEFFIELD — “It’s like a decade of our childhood is gone,” said Heather Overstreet, 21, of Norwalk, glancing at her best friend Nicole Zelenak, 20, of Lorain, for support. Zelenak nodded knowingly. For millions of fans worldwide, the final chapter in the Harry Potter movie series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2,” brought [...]
Republicans name deputy Evans to succeed Matus as county coroner
ELYRIA — As Lorain County’s new coroner, Dr. Stephen Evans will speak for the dead, but he said his primary mission is communicating with their loved ones. “Even if it was your father and he was an elderly person and passed away and it wasn’t completely unexpected, it’s still a shock. It’s still a tragedy. [...]
Troopers find dead body in passenger seat during traffic stop
LIMA, Ohio — Ohio troopers say when they did a traffic stop on a pickup truck, they found the driver was riding with a dead man in the passenger seat. Allen County Coroner Gary Beasley says it appears the man had been dead for hours when the State Highway Patrol pulled over the truck early [...]
Prosecution: Nephew brought new info to light in cold case
ELYRIA — A phone call and a change of heart by a relative led to the arrest of Bobbie New last month on a murder charge in the 1976 slaying of Dorothy Spencer. The investigation had been cold for decades when Lorain County sheriff’s deputies were contacted last August by a nephew of New, who [...]