Archive for November, 2011
Man hurt in wrong-way crash on 57
SHEFFIELD TWP. — A wrong-way driver was hospitalized Wednesday evening after crashing into a guardrail in the southbound lane of state Route 57, north of state Route 254, around 6:45 p.m. Township Fire Chief Joe Bandagski said the gold Kia appeared to have been northbound in the southbound lane when the crash occurred. The unidentified [...]
UPDATE: North Abbe Road crash injures two
A head-on crash late this afternoon on North Abbe Road about a half mile south of the Colorado Road intersection has seriously injured two people. Witnesses said a dark-colored Ford Explorer collided head-on with a white Chevrolet Impala. The male driver of the Explorer was removed from the vehicle at 5:55 p.m. The female driver [...]
Cameras coming to Elyria’s downtown
ELYRIA — Cameras monitored by police will surveil people downtown by March. Members of the City Council’s Community Development and Finance Committee were briefed Monday on the six cameras, which will be paid for with $22,000 in federal taxpayer money. Tamela Grubb, program director of Main Street Elyria, a nonprofit downtown improvement group that is [...]
Midview Middle School getting roof installed with energy-saving features
GRAFTON — Crews have started putting on the roof of the new $16.6 million Midview Middle School, which has lots of windows for light and passive solar heat. School officials hope that the design will enable the new building to obtain Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design gold status for its energy-saving features. The roof [...]
College basketball: No. 2 Ohio State beats No. 3 Duke
COLUMBUS — Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski was asked about an Ohio State player and almost chuckled. “I wasn’t focused on each of their guys,” he said. “I was trying not to lose by 30.” It was that kind of night for the third-ranked Blue Devils. Jared Sullinger scored 21 points and three teammates were close [...]
Baby hospitalized for fractured skull, dad arrested
AVON LAKE — A 2-month-old baby boy has a fractured skull but is expected to be OK after a domestic fight on Vinewood Drive Monday evening. The baby’s father, Victor Cabrera-Zamora, 23, is charged with abduction, felonious assault, two counts of domestic violence and improperly handling of firearms in a vehicle. Officers were called to [...]
Four area football players make All-Ohio first team
Matt Jordan remembers the highlight of his senior year as a member of the Clearview football team. “It was our last home game,” Jordan said. “It was against Brooklyn. Coach (Mike Collier) took me aside and told me I’d get the ball for my final run that night. I got in the huddle and said [...]
Holly Brinda wants city involved in land bank
ELYRIA — Mayor-elect Holly Brinda wants Elyria to take the lead in the creation of a county land bank through the Thriving Communities Initiative, a program of the Western Reserve Land Conservancy. Establishing the economic development arm for the county is so important to the newly elected mayor that she plans to make it a [...]
Browns’ Ryan Pontbriand released after several errors
BEREA — Ryan Pontbriand joined the Browns as a punch line. Then-coach Butch Davis used a fifth-round draft pick on him in 2003, drawing ridicule for making him one of the highest-picked long snappers in the history of the NFL. Pontbriand spent the next eight seasons as one of the Browns’ most reliable players, rarely [...]
High school bowling: Elyria’s Emily Henceroth shed her tutu to begin stellar career on lanes
Emily Henceroth’s athletic career started on a slightly different path, but now she bowls, loves it and is doing great. Unlike her three older siblings, the Elyria senior had to wait until she turned 10 before she started bowling. Her mom, Nancy, had Emily in ballet for seven years. “When she finally started bowling she [...]
High school bowling: North Ridgeville set to lead area boys
The North Ridgeville boys bowling team sets a pretty high bar, not only for itself but for the rest of the North Shore Bowling Conference. The Rangers have advanced to the district tournament five straight times since the sport first became sanctioned by the OHSAA in 2006. This season shouldn’t be much different. North Ridgeville [...]
Columbus jail to start charging inmates for their stays
COLUMBUS — The county jail in Columbus plans to join others in Ohio that charge inmates a fee for their stays. The Columbus Dispatch reports criminals sentenced to spend time in the Franklin County jail will pay a one-time, $40 charge for the privilege, beginning next year. County Sheriff Zach Scott says his office needs [...]
Man arrested for trying to steal police car
AMHERST — Police have arrested a man they say attempted to steal a police car from the parking lot of the Amherst Police Department. Peter Theado, 38, of Lorain is charged with disrupting public service, unauthorized use of a computer, attempted grand theft, obstruction of official business and criminal trespassing. According to a news release [...]
Oberlin and Wellington school board races headed to recounts
SHEFFIELD TWP. — Two school board races will go to a recount after the Lorain County Board of Elections on Tuesday certified the final results of the Nov. 8 election. In the race for two seats on the board of Oberlin Schools, Barry Richard, who was the sole candidate whose name actually appeared on the [...]
Convicted killer goes on trial for robberies
ELYRIA — The trial of convicted killer Neil Simpson on charges stemming from the robberies he allegedly committed before gunning down Granny D’s pizzeria owner David Kowalczyk in 2007 began Tuesday. Simpson, 28, already is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole after he was convicted last year of aggravated murder. The jury [...]
Body found on North Ridgeville lawn
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — Police say it doesn’t not appear that a man whose body was discovered this morning laying along Mills Road died of foul play. Police were notified by a caller just before 9 a.m. of the body, which was found in a lawn near a Mills Road home close to White Pine Way. [...]
Man gets 3 years probation in anthrax hoax
A Wellington man who touched off a bioterrorism scare after mailing an envelope containing a white powdery substance to a Texas marketing company last year was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to three years of probation. The substance that Bruce Massey mailed to Allied Marketing Group wasn’t hazardous, but it rekindled fears of 2001 when [...]
State Sen. Gayle Manning sponsors ‘Blue Alert’ bill
State lawmakers are being asked to enact a measure that would create a statewide “Blue Alert” program to more quickly find and apprehend those suspected of wounding or killing law enforcement officers. Senate Bill 258 was recently introduced by state Sen. Gayle Manning, R-North Ridgeville. The measure would establish a program similar to those operating [...]
Police log for Nov. 30, 2011
Elyria police Saturday, Nov. 26 10 a.m. — 1000 block Bell Ave., $150 GPS unit stolen overnight from car parked in driveway. 11:04 a.m. — 1000 block Bell Ave., resident said someone broke the passenger side window of his Dodge Durango overnight and stole an iPod and phone. 11:40 a.m. — 300 block High St., [...]
Critter Chronicles: Trixie
TRIXIE My name is Trixie, and as you can see I’m VERY cute. I just came into Love-A-Stray and my foster mom is still getting to know me. I’m doing very well in the house and I’m great in the crate. I’m funny – I like to take my toys in the crate so no [...]
Edward Scott Bahmer
Edward Scott Bahmer, 43, formerly of Elyria, died Saturday, November 26, 2011, at the Cleveland Clinic. He was born December 26, 1967 in Fort Wayne, Indiana and was a 1986 graduate of Elyria High School. He was employed as a flight attendant for Florida Express, Braniff, Eastern, Northwest and Delta Airlines and was recently promoted [...]
Frank R. Bottomlee
Frank R. Bottomlee, 79, a 34 year resident of Elyria, died Monday, November 28, 2011, at Lois Stokes VA Medical Center in Cleveland. He was born November 18, 1932 in Wakeman, attended Wakeman High School, and served with the U.S. Air Force from 1950 to 1954. For 30 years, he was a semi truck driver [...]
Richard Russell Buttle, Jr.
Richard Russell Buttle, Jr., 93, went to be with the Lord November 23, 2011, at Keystone Pointe in LaGrange. He was born April 25, 1918 in Lorain and attended Lorain High School, where he played football. He moved to Elyria in 1939, where he lived until moving to Mesa, Arizona in 1992. He returned in [...]
Violet Louise Doyle
Violet Louise Doyle, 84, of LaGrange, died Tuesday, November 29, 2011, at Stein Hospice in Sandusky. She was born August 16, 1927 in Maude, Oklahoma. She is survived by a daughter, Paula (Clarence) Maruna of LaGrange, with whom she made her home; sons, Bob and Kevin Doyle; 11 grandchildren; 11 great grandchildren; one great great [...]
Elmer Gunter
Elmer Gunter, 81, of New London, died Monday, November 28, 2011 at The Rehabilitation and Nursing Center at Firelands in New London. He was born in Wilder, Tennessee on December 13, 1929. Elmer moved to Elyria in 1953, lived in Rochester for several years and resided in New London since 1991. He worked 45 years [...]