Archive for December, 2011
Meeting to discuss lakefront substation
LORAIN – FirstEnergy Corp.’s plans to close its 69,000-volt Edgewater electrical substation at 200 Oberlin Ave. and to build two substations at Subway Field will be outlined 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. today at a meeting in the St. Joseph Community Center, 205 W. 20th St. In addition to replacing the 69,000-volt substation, FirstEnergy spokesman [...]
Lorain Council members sworn in; including Dennis Flores for his second go-around
LORAIN — Two new City Council members were sworn in Monday. Councilman Dennis Flores, D-2nd Ward, regained the seat he had from 2007 to 2009. He defeated incumbent Councilman Andy Drwal in the May primary and ran unopposed in November. Also sworn in was Councilman Tony Richardson, D-at-large, the top primary vote getter among at-large [...]
Elyria officials say their goodbyes
ELYRIA — Mayor Bill Grace said he is leaving the city a healthy cash carryover and fewer full-time employees than when he took office in 2000. After serving as the city’s elected leader for 12 years, Grace is leaving office after losing his re-election bid to Mayor-elect Holly Brinda in the May primary. On Monday [...]
Girls basketball: Clearview defense stifles Midview
EATON TWP. — The Clearview girls saw for themselves Monday night that a very old lesson about high-school basketball is true. That is, a lot of games at the scholastic level are won on defense and the backboards. The Clippers (5-1) dominated both statistics in a 49-17 non-conference victory over Midview (0-7). Their defense limited [...]
Ohio State: Big expectations greet Meyer in first season
COLUMBUS — Urban Meyer came into the Ohio State job with his eyes wide open about what Buckeyes fans demand from their new coach. “Win it all,” he said of the expectations. He’s done that twice, capturing two national championships at Florida before coming to Ohio State on Nov. 28 to take over a bedraggled [...]
Scott Petrak: Browns in need of playmakers
BEREA — During overtime Sunday in Arizona, the Cardinals got a 32-yard punt return from rookie Patrick Peterson and a 32-yard catch from Larry Fitzgerald to set up the winning field goal. Two of Arizona’s best players — top-five draft picks seven years apart — making a play when it mattered most. That doesn’t happen [...]
Browns: McCoy still waiting on medical clearance
BEREA — Quarterback Colt McCoy hasn’t been cleared medically following the concussion sustained Dec. 8. The Browns have a short practice week with a Saturday game. They’re facing the third-ranked Ravens defense that will be angry following a 34-14 loss at San Diego. But coach Pat Shurmur said McCoy is progressing and didn’t declare him [...]
Cavaliers: Samuels ready to work
INDEPENDENCE — When the now 6-foot-9, 260-pound Samardo Samuels was a senior and 6-9, 227-pound Tristan Thompson was a sophomore, they were teammates at St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, N.J. Neither was the team’s starting center. That spot was occupied by 6-9 270-pound Gregory Echenique, now a junior at Creighton University. “We lost one [...]
David Howard Carrick
David Howard Carrick, 66, of Pensacola, Florida, died Wednesday, December 7, 2011. Mr. Carrick was born September 16, 1946, in Elyria, to Howard L. Carrick and Jessie Biddinger Carrick. He served in the U.S. Navy for 4 and a half years, while in Pensacola, and worked for Gulf Power Company, from which he retired after [...]
Arthur A. Fedak
Arthur A. Fedak, 62, of Toledo and formerly of Grafton, passed away Saturday, December 17, 2011 in the Hospice of Northwest Ohio Center after a courageous battle with cancer. He was born in Cleveland on August 23, 1949 and had lived all but the last five years in Grafton. A 1967 graduate of Midview High [...]
Sarah Ruth Hammond
Sarah Ruth Hammond, 34, of Oberlin, died in Williamsburg, Virginia, Thursday, November 24, 2011, after a long and brave struggle with mental illness. A 1995 graduate of Oberlin High School, Sarah received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1999 and her Ph.D. in History of American Religion in 2010, both from Yale University. Sarah was [...]
Frank J. Kleinholz
Frank J. Kleinholz, 96, of North Ridgeville, passed away Monday, December 19, 2011, at the New Life Hospice Center of St. Joseph in Lorain, following a short illness. Arrangements will be announced by the Liston Funeral Home, North Ridgeville.
Marianne Machock (nee Brandt)
Marianne Machock (nee Brandt), 67, of Elyria, died Sunday, December 18, 2011, at Center Ridge Health Campus, North Ridgeville. She was born December 9, 1944 in Elyria and was a 1962 graduate of Elyria Catholic High School. Marianne is survived by her husband, David E. Machock; son, Robert Sean Court of Cincinnati; daughters, Amy M. [...]
Carolyne Moore
Carolyne Moore (nee Taylor), 72, of Lorain, passed away Friday, December 16, 2011 at her home, following a lengthy illness. She was born January 12, 1939 in Rawl, West Virginia and had been a resident of Lorain for 59 years. Carolyne was a licensed missionary and was a member of Body of Christ Church of [...]
Robert Mervyn Nicholls
Robert Mervyn Nicholls, 83, of Elyria, died Thursday, December 15, 2011, in the Wesleyan Village. He was born March 13, 1928 in Cleveland, to the late Helen Grace (nee Holmgren) and Mervyn Stanley Nicholls. Mr. Nicholls moved to Avon Lake before he made his home in Lorain, from 1965 until 2004. He resided in the [...]
Robert W. Shisler
Robert W. Shisler, 84, of Warsaw, Indiana, passed away Tuesday, December 13, 2011, at his daughter’s home in Elyria, following a sudden illness. He was born June 19, 1927, in Crown Point, Indiana, and lived in Woodstock, Illinois for many years, and had been a resident of Warsaw for the past 19 years. Bob worked [...]
Roger F. Slutzker
Roger F. Slutzker, 63, of Lorain, passed away Sunday, December 18, 2011 at Anchor Lodge, following a long illness. Roger was born in Lorain on January 13, 1948, the son of the late Milton and Leona (nee Wittow) Slutzker. He was a graduate of Lorain High School, class of 1966. He attended Tri-State University in [...]
Anna Helen Snyder
Anna Helen Snyder (nee Ciha), 93, of Elyria, died Saturday, December 17, 2011, at Keystone Point in LaGrange, following a long illness. She was born in Cleveland, February 5, Mrs. Snyder was a graduate of John Adams High School in Cleveland and was an original member of the Lake Ridge Sweet Adeline’s, a member of [...]
Browns QB Colt McCoy hasn’t been cleared to practice
BEREA – Browns coach Pat Shurmur said quarterback Colt McCoy hasn’t been cleared to practice, and he won’t make a decision on who will start Saturday in Baltimore until McCoy’s deemed healthy. “When Colt’s OK, we will talk about it,” Shurmur said this afternoon. McCoy didn’t travel to Arizona on Sunday for the 20-17 overtime [...]
Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s ‘Dear Leader,’ dead at 69
SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong Il, the mercurial and enigmatic North Korean leader whose iron rule and nuclear ambitions dominated world security fears for more than a decade, has died. He was 69. Kim’s death 17 years after he inherited power from his father was announced today by the state television from the North [...]
Secret Santa pays off layaway tab for 23 Avon Walmart customers
AVON — Secret Santa took on new meaning Saturday at Walmart, where an anonymous benefactor paid about $8,800 in layaway bills for 23 customers. “He said it was hard to pick one or two. I was like, whoa,” store manager Tammy Pistore said Sunday. “It was just a little miracle yesterday. It was really cool.” [...]
400 attend annual Tuba Christmas at Lorain Palace Theatre
LORAIN — Driving home from the Akron Tuba Christmas in 1995, Dale Hildebrand’s son Jeremy wondered why his father was driving about 35 children to the event every year instead of staging one in Lorain. “I thought, you know, that’s not a bad idea,” Hildebrand said Sunday after the 16th annual Tuba Christmas at the [...]
Woman in critical condition after being thrown from car
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — A 51-year-old woman was critically injured in an 8:20 p.m. car crash Sunday on state Route 10 about a-mile-and-a-half east of state Route 83. The woman was thrown from her car, which was found lying on the driver’s side, according to a news release from police Sgt. Matt Gorski. The victim, Colleen [...]
Browns blow 10-point lead in fourth quarter, lose to Cardinals in OT
GLENDALE, Ariz. — A difficult week came to a frustrating end for the Cleveland Browns, and a bad season got worse. The Browns blew a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter and were beaten in overtime by the Arizona Cardinals 20-17 on Sunday. Cleveland (4-10) has lost four straight and seven out of eight. The [...]
Goodell, players union say Browns failed after McCoy hit
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell doesn’t want a repeat of the Colt McCoy concussion situation and said the league is taking steps to make sure it won’t happen again. Goodell, appearing Sunday on CBS’ pregame show, said the system failed when McCoy was allowed to return to the game against the Steelers on Dec. 8 just [...]